I lucked out… my camera had fallen out of my pocket in my car. It was between the seats so I didn’t find it when I looked on the floor. I’m pleased to know for sure what happened.

That means a few photos today! I get to show you my great kids from Foster Center. First, six kids I had for knitting on Wednesday (that is me in the middle with my hair down and no hat…that’s how I look when I’m fighting a headache, unfortunately… but the kidz told me I looked beautiful).

I had seven CityKidz that day, total. Then on Thursday I had ten kids, three of them boys. I love my boys, they make me proud. The two boys you see here can knit a whole wristband or nearly one (depending on needle size) in an hour session. The girls aren’t as quick, they are not as big into the speed thing as my boys. They love it as much or more, it’s just not speed that matters to them.

Second photo is four boys at the edge of the Foster Center parking lot, climbing the snow piles left from plowing the lot so many times this winter. You can see it was pretty warm that day, probably about 40F, and one child had shed a coat on the ground, some others have their coats open in front. What a normal kid thing to do… to climb a snowpile!

Friday I had a good day. I tried to sleep in but that did not happen. I woke up at 8am! What is that all about? I usually stay up till 1:30 and get up at 9:30 or 10. But I was so tired I fell asleep at midnight, and then I woke up (not quite rested enough but unable to go back to sleep) at eight. At least I got lots done.

I made Sara (my Goddaughter) a no-wheat (or egg, milk, corn, yeast, soy) applesauce cake I make when I want a snack. I even take it to gatherings, and people who can have most foods also enjoy this particular snack. Sara loved her cake.

Then Sara and I went to Altu’s for lunch. It is so good to talk with her. She showed me photos of her recent trip to New York City with a friend. I’m proud of her, she negotiates a city pretty well for a college freshman, thanks in part to our travels together in Montreal and Chicago. I loved hearing her tell her stories about the trip.

After I took Sara home, I went to Little Red Schoolhouse (ran into Lynette making her wonderful felted fish… Hi, Lynette!), dropped off a couple of samples for my toe-up sock class starting the first Monday in April. I hung out for a while and knit a bit on the dressy wrap/capelet I’m doing in yarns from that shop (the overall look is purple curly eyelash with some turquoise, spring green and raspberry peeking out. It’s sort of froofy and subtly sparkly and I like it a lot).

Then I hopped over to Threadbear (not that far away) and started scheduling my summer classes with them. I also sat and knit a bit on my dressy wrap/capelet that I’m doing from yarns I got at their shop. I get to keep that wrap since the shop already has one sample. It’s in springy greens and turquoises (cotton, brushed mohair and ribbon, a little more down to earth than the one mentioned above), and I love it. Turquoise mohair is about as good as it gets.

While I was there, I got some Mississippi 3 yarn (fingering weight cotton/acrylic, very nice) in hot pink and hot green, to make an Ann Norling fruit hat for my friend Mandy’s new baby girl. Mandy had her baby early this week and I had not planned ahead at all! I love these hats, I’m more than half done already and it’s absolutely darling. My friends seem to all have girls these days, and they really do love these fruit hats.

Speaking of people having girls, here is a picture of three little girls (one taking a nap on the floor in the background), at Habibi Dancers’ practice last Wednesday. Of all the children we twenty dancers in the troupe have, the last six born have been girls, and you are looking at the oldest of them all, if I have it right. There may be one a bit older than her, I can’t remember who came first. None of the girls are in school yet. How adorable are these sweethearts??? I’m in love with these sweet little girls.

Off to bed. Maybe since I’m going to bed at 1am, I can sleep a little longer tomorrow? I am planning to dye some yarn tomorrow, since my class is not a “go.” Wish me luck staying on track with that dyeing concept! Some days it’s lots harder to get down in the studio than others.