Undated Logan Picture!

We finally have an updated picture of the cutie from Guatemala! Here is Logan with his foster mom. He is getting so big even though he is only 2 months old. Stacey and Jon are chomping at the bit to get this little guy home to Florida as are his grandparents in Minnesota! We are still hoping that homecoming will be sometime in January or February. They are waiting on the DNA tests before they are allowed to go and visit him but they hope to spend a week at Christmas with him in Guatemala. I can't wait to get my hands on this little guy! Being a Gramma is so much fun!

I tried out the new aebleskiver pan! It actually worked! You are supposed to turn them with a knitting needle...seriously, that's what the directions say. Well, I am not about to pull out my Addi's or Option needles for cooking so a bamboo skewer had to suffice. I rolled the warm aebleskivers in cinnamon and sugar...they were okay, but next time it's fruit syrup for me. I'd like to try using some fresh blueberries also. I guess I would just push some in before I flip them. They are fun to make and taste sort of like a cross between a pancake and a cake donut. I see lots of aebleskiver experimentation's in my future. Too bad these babies aren't low cal or low fat!

My dear friend Janet is very concerned that I don't get enough "comments" on my blog. What to do, what to do. A few of my favorite blogs, namely Janice's and Maia's, get LOTS of comments. I noticed that they have contests. Maybe I need a contest too! I certainly have enough sock yarn that I could easily part with for prizes. So what kind of contest should I have? How about something like...what is your favorite sock yarn and why do you like it? Or...if you were a yarn, what yarn would you be? Let me think on this a couple days and then I will post "The String-Slingers Sock Yarn Contest"! And the 4 people out there who read this blog can pass on this wonderful and exciting contest to their friends and fellow knitting bloggers so that Janet will mellow out about my lack of comments! Love'ya Janet!

At this time of year I always start to feel "antsy". Right now I am feeling particularly antsy about my house. I do not live with my husband. Although we are married, we have lived apart for the last 3 1/2 years. This was his idea. I have one child left at home, my youngest son Walker. My house has 4 bdrms, 3 baths, a living room and a family room and is really way more room than Walker and I need. Plus, there's the cleaning factor. Cleaning a house this size is way more time-consuming than I like. So I have been looking online at townhouses. No more yard work, no more lawn mowing, no more shoveling snow (remember, I live in Minnesota!) this all sounds good to me. Walker will be 20 years old next month and as much as I hate to think about it, he will leave home some day. My husband and I are good friends, the best. We talk daily and he only lives 2 miles from me. We get together for dinner and movies a couple times a week. In a perfect world he would want to live with me and I would sell my house and move back into the house where we raised our family and he still lives. Will this ever happen, I don't really know. Is this even what I truly want? I don't really know. See why I feel antsy? One thing we both have realized since Brady's suicide is that our kids are the most important thing on earth. We love them so much and want what is best for them. Family is top priority. Always will be.

Knitting. What's that? I have been so busy the last couple weeks that I haven't even touched my needles. Nor have I read any good books. When I get this antsy feeling I tend to not be able to concentrate very well. I know it will pass, it always does. I am determined to get that darn purple cardigan done no matter what! Since I have today off, and have no pressing plans, I will cast on once again and pray that I don't screw it up!