Monday
taco salad

Tuesday
tortilla pizzas with ricotta and mushrooms

Wednesday
date night

Thursday
Chicken with olives, raisins and spinach rice

Friday
Sesame Chicken w/ brown rice

Saturday
Carrie really is cooking this time

Sunday
Manicotti with ricotta and spinach

“Dad, we had an accident. It was a spiller. And my tiger has apple cider on him now.”

Monday
Fish Tacos

Tuesday
date night

Wednesday
enchiladas

Thursday
Thanksgiving at Aunt Ann’s

Friday
leftovers

Saturday
Chicken Devan

Sunday
Carrie will be forced to cook for me

• Honor woke up with his second ever asthma attack yesterday. Because it’s been 4 years since the last one, we didn’t have any medication so I had to take him to the ER to get a nebulizer treatment. I’m very thankful that we have access to great medicine!

• This week is a crazy week for me. Friday (black Friday) is always super busy for Tangle so I’m going crazy doing the rest of the holiday decor and getting ready for our sale. (PS, did I mention that we now have Offhand Design’s bags? I want this one SO bad. And yes, I do need another bag – it’s important!)

• I’ve just about given up on knitting this jacket. The shaping is totally screwy and the fit is going to be completely off. And I’ve knit the whole thing except the second half of the sleeves. I’m beyond words with excitement at the thought of ripping the whole damn thing out. I think I may try to knit it once more with no shaping at all. I find that straight knit things hug my curves much better than garments with obvious hip and waist shaping. I’m totally frustrated but it has such potential… BTW, I’m also just about to swear off knitting anything in pieces ever again. There is something to be said for a top down raglan. Fo Sho.

• Tomorrow at noon I’m going to be talking about Tangle on our local radio station KAFM. If you’re in the area and listen to me, you’re not allowed to laugh at my chipmunk voice!

• At my friend Brooke’s suggestion I just finished reading The Shack. To say that it was just what I needed would be an understatement, but I’m still processing the effects it’s had on me, so for now I’ll say that I really enjoyed it.

• Yesterday we drove to the top of the Rockies to meet our niece’s dad halfway and give her back to him for awhile. It’s always a mixture of emotions when we hand her off. There’s the selfish, busy woman in me who is very happy to have one less kid to corral. And this is the only way of life she’s ever known, so it all seems very normal to her. But the mommy in me worries about her. And the part of me that very much wants the world to be as it should (this is a very big part of me) has a hard time wrapping her head around dealing with the world as it shouldn’t be.

[I suppose this might be one of the biggest emotional struggles of my life thus far because it’s very difficult for me to handle things being wrong when they so desperately need to be right. I don’t really know how to reconcile myself to the fact that things aren’t the way they need to be and that lots of times I’m powerless to effect any change – to bring things into the “right”. I don’t like being helpless. I usually make my own path and get what I want, so I don’t like helplessly watching lives headed for destruction and/or pain whilst I sit there not being able to change it… if only by my sheer will. I don’t like any of it. At all.]

• I think that I’ve also discovered that my head doesn’t like the altitude change very much – this is the second time on such a trip that I’ve come down with a migraine. Such fun!

• This week for me is going to be about getting ahold of my life. It will be my second week that I’ve stuck to my house cleaning schedule. And the second week that I’ve stuck to my menu too (just as soon as I plan it!). We’re into the groove of working out pretty well, so the rest of it should come easier too, right?

New shoes!

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Its an addiction. I admit it. At least they were way on sale?

Monday
Rigatoni with meat sauce

Tuesday
Tuna Casserole in the crock pot

Wednesday
Date night!

Thursday
Stuffed Poblanos

Friday
White bean and sausage soup with collard greens

Saturday
Minestrone Soup

Sunday
??? maybe, hopefully, we’ll be on our way home from swimming in Ouray

• Moving Tangle to Main Street is proving to be a very good decision. We are SO busy down here! The amount of yarn pouring through the door is amazing and the amount of yarn pouring out of the door is equally amazing! Have I ever mentioned how much I love yarn?

• There has been a significant amount of family drama happening over the past weeks and I’m very frustrated with the fact that this blog has become so public that I can’t write about any of it. That’s actually why I’ve been so silent lately. I’m afraid of my blog… or rather, afraid of the backlash I’ll receive when I write what I’m ACTUALLY thinking, feeling and experiencing (voting for too!) :) I miss my most precious outlet! And therapy is SO much more expensive than blogging.

• Due to our family drama, we spent last week moving my SIL out of her house and our niece is living with us temporarily. I swear, with all three kids in my house right now, they are intent on my extreme torture. But they are enjoying each other a lot. Jim and I often marvel at how much sheer joy our children derive from such small things. I want to be like them SO badly. Plus it makes me feel like we’re doing something right because they are so dern happy.

• Because of our trip to Vegas and the drama that ensued afterwards, Jim and I had to restart our workout program last week. Today was the start of week two and I am proud to say that I’m already lifting more weight. The pain is getting to be something like a constant companion, but that’s just par for the course.

• Somedays I want to sell everything I own and move up to a little cabin in the mountains where I can knit constantly and live off of food I forage for. Just sayin.