It's Saturday, the band is playing..

Honey could we ask for more? It is the Praire Home Companion Spring Show and we are feeling it here in Freehold also.

Today has been a typical suburban Saturday at the Pfannenstiel house. Zach slept through the night for the first time in a week. He's been going through a growth spurt and teething. Therefore he's needed some extra snuggles and formula in the middle of the night. But, he's gained at least a pound, and the following pictures are in 18 month clothes.

Now, surrounding Andrew show the fruits of our labors today. I made an excellent wheat bread (2 loaves), we are having pizza for dinner, and Zach's food is in the ice cube tray. What you can't see are Andrew's trips to Home Depot for garage organizing, the supermarket for groceries and the collective nap to recover!

I am also in the process of setting up my crafting corner. The Bernina (thanks MaryAnn!) is out of storage and waiting. I ordered some hemp cloth, PUL and Fold Over Elastic to make wee diaper covers for the new baby, and some larger diaper covers for Zach. Even with S&H, I figure if I make 12 diaper covers for Zach out of the PUL and hemp, they'll be about a third of the price of the diaper covers we have been using.

However, as part of the setting up process I unpacked a box of crafting stuff that has been sitting there since I left Athens, GA. Oi vey. I had the Gordian Knot of yarn. Yarn left overs from every knitting project I've done since I knit a blanket for Memere in 1993 or 94 was in one big intractable lump. Now, that blanket is home with me, and is quite warm for mommas and babies. But, did I really need to keep the 15 grams of yarn left over? Or the pink yarn that I seriously over bought for Katie Madison's blanket? I have 2 skeins left! I have yarn that I can't identify! I have acrylic, soft and scratchy. I have wool, dark heathers, bulky and warm (and really impractical for the human furnace that I married). I have cottons and blends. And after 30 minutes of work that I've been avoiding for about 4 years, the yarn is unknotted and I am working on putting it away. I just know there's a metaphor in there some where.