Yesterday was Clark’s birthday. He is still sick, so we didn’t do much in the way of celebrating as we’re doing that tonight anyway. But I felt bad for him. This is the only picture I got of his special day.

And today is Abby’s birthday. I’m not feeling that great, although not completely sick either. But I feel tired with all that lies ahead this month. Multiple birthdays, their respective parties, a baptism, a wedding, a fly-in-and-fly-out visit from my mom and my uncle in the midst of an insane weekend (see “wedding and baptism”), self employment taxes… and I have to be forgetting at least 5 things.

Plus, since the girls didn’t get parties two years ago, I told them they could have a party last year. Which was right when we ended up moving and birthing Clark. So I put it off and put it off until it didn’t happen. So this year, there’s no escaping the party throwing. We usually do the extended family thing on their birthday. Then we’re having a party with school friends. Then we’re having a party with church friends (separate only to keep the number of children in my house at any one time a manageable one). Times two because Liv’s birthday is this month also. Plus, both girls are dying to have sleepovers, so they each get one. Yeah, let that all sink in.

I’M TIRED!!

And the party hasn’t even started yet. We have dates fixed for two of the four promised events, and Liv’s sleepover will probably end up happening in May.

I’ve finished the second leg and have begun the first heel flap. This is the first pattern I’ve made that has you decrease for the heel flap. That’s weird. The socks are already a little snug, but I did it anyway thinking that I’d already intended on making the heel flap longer to give some ease.

And I’ve been cabling without a cable needle for the first time. Too lazy to get up and check online to see how its done, I worked out a method myself. It might be how everyone else does it, I don’t know, but it’s working for me.