11 AM

ALLISON,

IT IS 4 AM! What are you doing awake if your baby is sleeping? GO TO SLEEP! I understand worrying about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but for goodness sake, check to make sure he is breathing and go back to bed! Here is what I do at 0400: look at clock, wonder why I have awakened at such a horrendously early hour, close eyes, continue sleeping for 2-3 hours.

Honestly, I cannot do much of anything before 7 am. I know this is pathetic. I am not working right now, so I have no reason to get up any earlier than this, so I just get up at like 6:45 and wake the kids up and drink coffee while they get ready for school. I should  be more productive than this. I am just not. What is wrong with me? Why didn't I get those genes? Todd found one of those e-cards that says something like, "I'm not really a morning person and I'm not really a night person, but I can rock 11:00 am like it's nobody's business!" He thinks that totally applies to me. He's right.

I am finally knitting the scarf from the yarn Dad & Michele brought me from Italy. In a perfect world, in our old age (like late 50's, early 60's- no offense to anyone in this age range, I don't think you are old), we are going to knit together on a regular basis- like in a knitting circle. Todd heard me saying this and asked if we could really get any more boring than we already are. That if we are already wanting to knit together now and have family tea parties (like we have decided to do after someone brilliantly brought it up at the homeschooling expo), how much worse will it be in 20 years? Like soon we are going to be those ladies in weird clothes and plastic hats carrying our yarn all over town and knitting at inappropriate times and making our kids and grandkids wear things that they will be embarrassed by. I am going to show him. I am resolving to only ever knit cool things and show him that knitting and tea parties are for cool people who are interesting and young. You must join this movement.

I am glad that Phil is still alive. I saw Grandpa Phil today, and you will be glad to know that he is still alive as well, although I didn't have to listen for him to cry as an indication. He stopped here while on official business and helped with Sarah's math homework.


Love, Em

P.S. I love the new look of the blog. And the picture where you are trying to choke me to death. Just kidding, I know you didn't mean it. :)