We had a little snow

like almost 2 feet worth in one day.

It's so much that the kids really can't play out in it; Adele would get lost, Gilad can't move, Sachy barely can. Feivel of course left his mittens which I just bought last week (he's lost all of his other ones and 3 pairs of mine) at school, too.

So we spent the day losing Adele some more

and baking rolls and chocolate cookies to go with southwestern style white bean cakes, rice pilaf, and broccoli, for dessert (I mean the cookies are the dessert; the rolls are for the main part of the meal, and the broccoli we may send to Josie).

My little prodigies

Feivel, Gilad, and Adele are playing dreidel, having eaten their fill of latkes (served with chickpeas and green beans and rice and salad, this being our house after all). Oh, and of course brownies. On Feivel's first spin he got a "hay" ה which means he's supposed to get half of what's in the center. Gilad glanced at the pile of pennies and announced to Feivel that he should get six pennies. Sure enough, there were 12 total.
Then Adele spun, and proudly announced that she too had gotten a "hay" and sure enough she had.

The Ladybug Hat

is live on Ravelry!

what's new?

Very little. I've had Adele at home the last two days getting over a virus; she was a sick little puppy yesterday, but she was all better today with no fever, so she goes back to preschool tomorrow. At least with my not working now Jeffrey didn't have to try to watch her. Sachy was also home sick yesterday, but got sent back to school today. He just seems to have Sachy-itis.

Tirtze got glasses! Actually what you really should have seen was her get up yesterday. They're having colorwar at school, and her class/team has various themes, one of them being Asia...so yesterday she was a panda from head to toe, complete with face make-up. It was very cute. Her glasses are very stylishly cool, and she noted that she sees much more clearly with them on. So one complaint dealt with.

I finished Addie's second dress (same pattern as last time, with a few modifications made to get it to fit her better, ie, it's shorter than the other one):

and I'm trying to finish the matching (boring to knit) shrug. Then it's on to finish the Estonian lace scarf and hat set I started while I was waiting for the yarn to arrive to finish the dress last week.

I give up (funny, not pathetic)

Apparently you DO keep the baby in the toy box and the toys are meant to run around the room. I am just going to have to learn to accept this once and for all.

I also finished my second Selbu Modern beret, this one in handspun. The light blue is 3 ply Dorset from Faye's fleece I bought last spring; the multi-colored is wool and silk from a variety of bits I spun to a 3 ply variegated yarn. I made this one slightly bigger because that's how I like it! As modeled by Kayla as always:

A Thanksgiving Tale: Feivel Goes South

Here's the whole story. Feivel wanted to go out late on Thanksgiving morning. His Oma told him he could walk to the Brookville Market, 1/2 mile right down the road (no turns, no major roads to cross, etc) to buy her some paper napkins she needed, and that he could buy himself a candy bar with the change. He headed out and came back 5 minutes later saying he couldn't find the store. We told him he hadn't gone far enough; he knows right where the store is; we've walked there with him in the past and he's been there plenty of times. So he headed back out.

An hour and a half later, he hadn't returned. I walked up to the shops, checking the side streets and so on. The clerk had seen him come and buy the napkins and 3 candies by about 11:30, just when he should have arrived. No one at any of the other shops had seen him. No one coming from the other direction had seen him.

We drove the rest of the way down the road to Chevy Chase Circle. We went around the circle, down 1/2 mile of CT Ave in DC, and back up CT Ave in MD. No Feivel. At that point we called the police.

They had 10 units, and a regular K9 unit out searching and picked up his pillowcases for the K9 bloodhound unit search when he finally called 5 hours after setting out. He had indeed gotten lost, had gone the wrong way when he came out of the store, gone all the way to the other end of the road by the Circle, turned away from CT Ave (where he would have found shops and shoppers galore, and which was visible from where he came out at the end of the road) and instead headed down Western Ave into the residential area of Chevy Chase, DC. He just kept walking until finally he gave up and asked a nice lady out for a walk for help because he was lost. She told him no problem, people got lost all the time in their neighborhood, but she had no idea he was the object of such a big police search and was as lost as he was! He asked her to help him find his grandparents' phone number and knew their full names, so she was able to call 411 and get the number quickly; he was so good he even told her he wasn't allowed to enter a stranger's house so he stayed outside and she brought the cordless phone out. He called us, the police went right there to stay with him until we arrived, and we flew right out to get him.

So that was that. He was home just in time for Thanksgiving dinner (he needed to rest and relax for a while before he was ready to eat; he was scared, tired, and cold), and we had a Feivel to be extra thankful for.

And just for a more typical update, here's Addie in her Thanksgiving dress:

A hat I just finished knitting to mail off for a "Hats for Homeless Teens" drive:

And some yarn I finally spun this month after buying and dyeing the fleece last winter when I was in North Carolina at the John C. Campbell Folk School:

Sunday evening

Well, tomorrow morning will be Monday and I won't be going to work for the first time. I'm still not sure how I'll react. Knowing me, probably badly, but my working was just not working out in the real world. As it is, I have multiple errands that have to be run, orthodontics appts that have to be made for 2 kids, various arrangements to be worked on, practitioners to be hunted down. And here I really wanted some down time (don't we all). I think one thing I have to do is take my blood pressure regularly and just see how it reacts.

I did finish Addie's socks so her Thanksgiving outfit is complete (we tried the socks on her, and they fit as you see)

and I knit the fingerless gloves my SIL requested for her 7 year old quite some time ago that I just hadn't gotten to, despite having the yarn in stash and this being such an easy thing to whip up.

Those are Gilad's hands modeling the mitts; he thought they were wonderful and wanted to keep them. Um, don't think so. Pink fingerless mitts are just not you, Gilad.

We let Kayla create a Facebook account, so everyone who knows her go find her there now. Of course we also found out that Tirtze had created a Facebook account without telling us or friending us. Yet another opportunity for us to be mad at her. Sigh.

The boys and Jeffrey went to a Boy Scout Court of Honor this evening; Feivel was awarded a badge he'd earned and Sachy was awarded his Tenderfoot (I think I have that right).