Wee Aidan has been a bit fusy the last few days. Not sleeping well, noming his hands, not wanting to drink, spitting up and lots of crying for grammy & auntie. Daddy had to go pick him up yesterday he was so distraught. He's having a better day today. Besides waking up early & spitting up he's eating well & has been sleeping for the past 2 hrs.

While he sleeps I've been working on my patterns. Fixing errors, adding embellishments & in general preparing them for sale. To do this I am required to reknit all of them! Well not really but I am! Some of my patterns are more notes then pattern.....& some I forget what was common to me when I was kniting them for sale! Shame on me!

So this bonnet was a game in yarn chicken. Truthfully I failed! The band I would liked to have thicker & I would like a scalloped edging. Still looks cute with all that! The pattern is ready for typing and may get posted in the next few days. Keep a look out if you like it!

Aidan's curtains are done and the video process is uploaded.

Grandma had things to do last night so we got to go see the newest Kelley addition. & what a cutie she is. Jet black, straight locks!!! Squishy li'le cheeks. Charlie was being a ham & a proud big brother! Li'le Aidan was giving her smiles too. I think she'll be well loved!

On our way home wee Aidan slept the while 1.5hrs then again till 11pm. I should have slept with him but wasn't tired....well now I am! Ugh! & he's so not. In fact he's here trying to type this up for me!

I finally have Aidan's curtains finished. That only took ... what...4 months!? They look good...in my opinion. What do you think? I'll be posting a video of the process. Tedious but easy.

For now I'm gonna go try to finish making my coffee!

I'm so tempted not to compost this winter. My barrel's contents are frozen! I had hoped to empty it out & was filling a bucket beside it with my fresh scraps till the compost was ready to dump.....not happening if I can't even spin it anymore! & walking out there...it's ouchie cold! It's been a while since I've HAD to go out into the cold to take care of anything besides my car! *note to self knit more wool ... everything!

The patio was staying in the 20's + until last night. It dropped down into the low teens. So not staying much warmer then perhaps 5-10 degrees warmer then the outside. I blame this on the lack of proper calking. Sigh. Probably won't happen till spring. Which means they ain't getting paid till them. The guy in charge of our project now (this makes #3, so much for 1 contact throughout the project) is a contradictory mess. He was like "I'll be out there tomorrow. We need to go over a few things and get it signed off", then when tomorrow came ... and went he was like "sorry we didn't make it, blah blah, we will be out tomorrow 100%". That didn't happen either and this time no contact! Lame.

Note to anyone wanting an enclosed patio. If you have any little bit of building know how, just take the time to build it yourself! It takes them the same amount of time it would take you! (2 weeks my rosy ass) In fact if you took a week off work and were diligent, you'd have it done! & save yourself thousands of dollars! (byer's remorse .... if only I hadn't been pregnant. I would have pushed we do it)

When we get around to building then fence....WE are so building the fence. Contractors be damned! It'll be cheaper and less of a headache even with purchasing a $700 pin survey and the permits to build!!!!

So onto better things! Aidan's curtains are complete! *happy dance* I finished them yesterday while he slept and hung them up! I measured a bit off on the right side and so when I shifted the tabs around it pulls up. I don't think it's all that noticeable. What do you think?

His elf socks are done and were a hit! I messed up my toes a bit so there are some holes but I got it fixed in the pattern. I'll try to write that up today and post it.

On the last day of 2017 we took a trip to the Zoo for the Wildlights! Aidan was loving the lights and the fishes. He lasted a whole 1.5hrs before passing out in his snuggly snow suit!

SNOW!

Georgia and I killed the perfect snow fall with tracks. HOW did I play in this stuff when I was young?! It's sooo cold! My hands hurt!

We got a lovely snow storm here on Sunday which lead to a white Christmas! All things considered, a decent snow fall, though I was expecting more! I took Aidan out and got a picture with his balaclava on. So cute!!!

Sunday Aidan and I got together with grand-da, Terri, uncle Kyle and Alisha for lunch and presents. Grand-da is a super happy, proud man who lavishes his grand-baby! It's so cute!

Christmas day Aidan woke us up early! Cooing and giggling! So we made some flapjacks and opened gifts. Dan of course got me stuff even though I told him NO. I feel so weird receiving things, especially since I'm a poor woman who's whole check goes to bills! [side note: I need to start making things for next year] After lunch we racked the strawberry mead! Now to bottle it.

The patio crew came out today. They got the screen doors on, the inside calked and the upper windows installed. There will be no outside calking due to the freezing weather (>.>) and the thingies that seal up the upper windows won't be complete, again due to the freezing weather. Foreman says that they may be measured and cut in the warehouse then brought out and installed. Also, all my wee grievances apparently are already aware of and will be corrected at completion. We shall see. I can only hope! Though cleaning up along the way is a great business practice they should think about implementing!

Saturday Dan got the electrical complete. Michael, from JSB, was to bring us out the box we would need. Wasn't able via text, to tell me what it was called & refused to call me. This was earlier in the week. Apparently he doesn't want this job to be completed by years end.

Sloppy workers. Besides what I've already bitched about we found loads more damage to the unit. I still haven't gotten any of my questions answered....because he wants to talk in person (I'll be at the work site) but never shows (unless it's after I leave for work).

Corporate is getting a call from me. Hopefully they are more communicative then the guys I've worked with so far.....have I even met this Michael ....I Don't think I have now that I think about it.