- Beer bread

1 1/2 C. Unbleached flour
1 1/2 C. Whole Wheat Flour
4 1/2 t. Baking Powder
2 (or to taste) Clove garlic, skinned and chopped
1/2 C. Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Fresh Dill finely chopped
Fresh Thyme finely chopped
1 12oz. room temperature beer (not non-alcoholic)

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Combine flour, baking powder, garlic, cheese, dill, thyme (both dill and thyme add to taste) and beer in large nonreactive bowl. Mix together until dough is thick and fully mixed.

3. Place dough in lightly greased bread pan bake for 50 minutes. Take out and enjoy.

- Baby stats

I haven't been too good at posting lately. Busy with baby and general family stuff. Rosa Leigh is now 28 1/4" long/tall, 18 pounds and 9 months old. She's a blast to be around, so happy.

I'm finally starting on a hat for her, I haven't been able to knit forEVER!!!! But I'm going to make Carissa Knits Snowflake hat but I'm adding earflaps to it.

- Teeth

Tooth number 3 is in, or at least broken though. The arrival of tooth #4 is imminent.

I have 8 more rows of a dress to do and it will be finished, (any bets on how long this will take?) I'm tired. That is all.

Oh, and I'm tired on MJ, he's dead, he was odd, he was a good singer, and he was fiction. The singer was not the man, the pictures were not the man, Neverland was not the man. He's gone, everyone but his family should be over it by now.

- A Letter

Dear Palin, Your 15 minutes are up. Please get off the soapbox and fade into obscurity like you're supposed to. Sincerely, A Damn Good Portion of the American Public.

- Added yet another thing I'm probably not going to finish.

I know I don't have time to blog. I know I don't have time to knit. I know I don't have time to read. I know I don't have time to ______________ <----enter random activity here.

Yet I just started a new google site for the family. I'm only opening it up to my family and DH's family. I've added a calendar and allowed everyone to use/make changes to it. I'm hoping we can have one site that everyone goes to so we know what is going on, coming up, etc. But I know, I'm going to have trouble keeping it up. SIGH.

On a positive note, I'm almost done with my first baby clothing outfit, that I'm giving to DH's hubby. It's the Kaia Babydoll dress/shirt thingy. Whatever it is, it's too cute, and I can't wait to make one for Rosa Leigh (who by the way said "hi" today)

- Been soooooo long

It's been a long time since my last post. I've been so freakin' busy. With the baby, and the husband, and the son, frankly, my time is no longer my own. I've been trying to keep up with friends and family on facebook, and visit my WTE Mommas. That takes up all of my limited free time.

I am in the process of knitting a dress, which was supposed to be for Rosa Leigh, but is going to be for my husband's cousin's daughter (who has yet to make an appearance in this world) as I used the wrong size needles and it will be too small for Rosa Leigh when finished.


It's amazing how many things can happen in a month when you have a baby. She's crawling, has two teeth and two more that will appear any day now. We've gotten a new car, paid off an old car, school will be starting soon for our son, we've been back and forth from home to the Bay regularly.

I've gotten addicted to my crackberry and am lamenting all the time I lost not just breaking down and getting one years ago. I am wishing someone would come up with some good knitting apps for the blackberry, so I could merge all of my loves.....Right now this is where I am. I would like to update my blog once a week, but I know that is a foolish and unatainable wish right now. So I will have to settle for 'when I can'.

- My little drama mamma.

Rosa Leigh the actress:

We went shopping. When we got home we went to get her out of the car, but she was 'obviously' asleep. Head down, eyes closed, shoulders slumped, the whole shebang. My husband was going to get her out of the car, but he sees her asleep, and says "I'll go open up the house, you get her out." He says this as he's walking away.

She hears him walking away, and didn't realize I was right there watching her. As soon as Darwin stepped away, her head snapped up, eyes open, smiling....then she sees me. Eyes get wide, head drops to chest, shoulders slump, eyes close, and BAM we're 'back asleep'.

I start laughing, she flutters her eyelashes like she's just waking up and she glares at me for 'waking' her up. LOL.