Valentines Schmalentines

It's that time of year again, a time for wine and roses, filet mignons and spinning beds, chocolate covered everything and pink hearts. For us it's been the flu. Marley finally made it back to school today and since Friday, Abe and Robin picked it up and I think (fingers crossed) that today puts an end to it for Robin, just like yesterday did for Abe.

The nice thing about being sick is that it seems to be an excuse to relax a bit on everything. Tv all day? Sure! You need a couple of M&Ms with breakfast? Okay! And what child would go through an illness with out Mom and Dad waiting on them hand and foot, enter the beef pho I made Saturday night for Marley...
Or even a Boppies running to the store to grab them the essentials... ginger ale, Greek yogurt, strawberries, blackberries, goldfish crackers, cinnamon bread, and sherbet. I did not know these were the essentials, but they seemed to have helped, let's just say we were all spoiled a little bit. Especially when Grandma stopped by on her lunch hour and brought us a new thermometer and coffee, which was much needed after two nights of not sleeping with a baby who also was not sleeping.

But then came today, Valentine's Day. Kids needed presents, because those past couple of days were sick days, this deserves an entire new level of spoiling, which of course I'm happy to do. Marley and Abe were made Zsa Masks (rav link), we made white chocolate covered pretzels for Declan, and Marley and Abe decorated boxes to push Robin around in. Declan and I occasionally "celebrate" but this year we're getting Mexican takeout, I stayed in my pajamas until 5pm (this post was much more cynical in my head, but I was still wearing the pjs at that point, maybe it's a good thing I took a shower and changed my clothes), and then tonight Declan and I are supposed to write poems while sitting facing each other with our knees touching. Some kind of crap like that, oh there you are cynicism.

I had some issues with the yarn on Marley's Zsa mask. Can you tell? Make this a good lesson for all of us in the importance of dye lots, and switching yarns every other row or something like that.

But I can't end a Valentine's Day post like this. What with all the gazing and shit that's going to happen tonight. So here is a new, wonderful thing in my life, a freshly spun hank of handspun. Lots of pictures of it too, because I am very proud of it.

It's not the most uniformly spun, it's all leftovers and yeah there were some issues with one bobbin being spun one way, and the other being spun the other way, but man I'm in love with it.

I Navajo plyed it to deal with the bobbins being spun in different directions and am giddy about how it turned out. All approximately 220 yards of it.

More yarn porn.

Oh yeah, and then there's this one...

Happy V-Day to all :)