Not extinct, just dormant.

Don't you just hate blogs that lay dormant for months.

Yeah, me too.

Good job this one hasn't then hey?

We've been across the pond for 4 months now. I am still and always will be MUM regardless of the fact my 8 year old daughter is sounding more and more like a native Jersey kid by the day. It grates slightly on the elocution nerve that runs through my Received Pronunciation psyche, but at least she still pronounces her Ts. Water will never be Wadder and thank god will never be Wahher.

Homesickness comes like waves of pregnancy nausea. Eating helps that too. Thank god Cadbury's Creme eggs are in season, available and almost as tasty because quite frankly Hershey's tastes like the regurgitated sour sick. Chocolate always helps. So does wine.

Now I feel a little more settled as less like I'm on holiday and the feeling of temporary suspension is lifting I feel like writing stuff down again. I should write stuff down again. I will write stuff down again.

So prepare for more inane posts about what my needles are clicking (atm a lacy poncho for moi) about my three english kids who are slowly turing american, and life as an expat, staunchly english wifey and how I cope in the U omitting, S replacing, Adverb losing USA.

What bloody fun!

On a very side note, as this blog was intended to be about knitting, I have since created:

4 Cozy Coupe wheel covers

3 pairs of socks

3 hats

2 dishcloths

1 pair of gloves

1 teddy bear in a bag

1 poncho

1 vest

1 cardigan

1 bolero

1 Tic Tac Toe game

1 swiffer duster cover

Knit on!

Passing the time

To stop me obsessively checking the status of our Visa I've knitted a few
Hats for Innocent smoothies.

Now I just need to remember to post them.

I hope that the Lawyers don't monitor the amount of refresh clicks their pages get, because seriously I'm expecting a STOP CHECKING message the next time I look...(just checked, no further update) I mean come on already I just want to go, but don't want to go, but just want to go, oh you know what I mean.

Ahem..

A friend's sister wants one of those Kimono Sweaters I like to make, so have just been and bought some Cotton DK for that, brown was the colour required, so brown she will have. Well, it's not as if I have anything else to do, I'm not moving country or anything! So I am welcoming the distraction of knitting that, packing up stuff and being obsessively tidy as the house is on the market is not my idea of fun, fun, fun.

MrD is in the States as we speak, actually he is probably somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on a Virgin plane, but this week he has been away and I really think I have got more done because of it, including painting the Living Room and Kitchen. But I have a list of jobs, man do I have a list of jobs, just for him!

For insurance purposes I also needed to count up my stash, needles and accessories. I enjoyed that, even if it did consist of some major untangling to get the below amount of odds and sods.


NO MOVING DATE YET! geez.

I have excuses, honest gov...

Ummmm,

• School holidays
• Trip to New Jersey house-hunting
• Family holiday to France
• Sorting out of our worldly goods

Very little knitting done at all since I last blogged save for a little stuffed horse as a 1st birthday pressie which I failed to take a picture of before wrapping. I need to do some though just to unstress a little. If they say moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do how does moving country compare?

No, no date as of yet, but hopefully by mid October we will be all settled in the States, and about time too!!