There are only 8 days left in the school year for Munchkin! Honestly I’m shocked at how quickly the year passed us by… it seems like yesterday I was putting him on the bus for the first time. Yesterday was Munchkin’s “School Birthday”- I spent the whole day calling it his “unbirthday” from Alice in Wonderland.. and cracking up a lot. While it was thoughtful of the teacher to lump all of the summer birthdays into their appropriate dates in May.. It would have been nice if I would have had some notice that I had to come up with baked goods. Judging from the response of the class mother when I called to ask how many children were in the class.. it was perfectly clear that most of the moms did store-bought goodies. I called and said “Hi.. this is Ms. Mousie.. Munchkin’s mom. I’m baking cupcakes and I wanted to know how many children were in the class.” and she said “your.. whatting.. what? baking.. like with an oven?” While I realize that most moms work and don’t have the ‘luxury’ of staying home - I was sort of surprised that homemade cupcakes were such a novelty.
Things are clearly getting weird around here.. I’m knitting lace. A few weeks ago another blogger set forth a challenge to knit lace this summer.. and here’s my second go round after the serious failure of the kiri shawl. This is (or at least I’m hoping it will be eventually..) Seraphim from Mimknits… Sandy and I are having sort of an informal knit-along for the pattern. In other words.. we’re both knitting it and she promised to help me learn to read charts when it gets all confusing later. At the moment its still a mouse (the animal..) sized shawl.. but its very pretty. The yarn is some from Handpaintedyarn.com and is my first real experience with knitting lace-weight yarn… I’m very nervous about screwing it up.