driving at wegmans. [312.365]

The car cart makes Wegmans trips slightly less miserable for M (and thus, slightly less miserable for M's parents!). It's always a relief when we can snag one.

a new hat. [311.365]

I took the time between my two recitations on Friday to finish knitting the "grown up" version of M's hat that I was making for myself. Turned out pretty nice, eh?

#tbt the FIRST time M voted with me ;) [310.365]

This picture still cracks me up. M's been voting with me since the 2011 elections :)

lost mitten, found! [309.365]

M's teacher greeted me at the door with this mitten - she'd found it in her bag when she got home, and realized it was M's handknit mitten. Sneaky kiddo, hiding mittens in her teacher's bag! I'm just so relieved that it was found. I crocheted a chain and threaded it through the eyelets so…

we voted! [307.365]

We voted after work today (so dark outside!). M "helped" me vote, and got a little sticker, and she adorably kept calling herself a "little voter". Kiddo, just 16 more years and you'll be able to cast your own votes instead of trying to grab the marker out of mama's hand while she votes. (Poor…

bake sale donation! [306.365]

We donated 2 of the mini apple pies, plus a dozen chocolate chip cookies (we kept the other dozen for ourselves, ha!) to M's school to use for their Election Day Bake Sale.

first (mini) apple pie! [305.365]

We did a TON of baking on Sunday (some of it our usual weekly baking, some extra stuff for M's school's Election Day bake sale). One of the things I decided to tackle was apple pie - we had a bunch of apples left over from apple-picking that needed to be used NOW, and I…

super madrigal 2.0 [305.365]

By Saturday, M had decided she was "Super Madrigal 2.0" rather than "superkitty", and insisted on running errands with us in costume. She was not the only toddler still wearing a Halloween costume in Wegmans, and we got lots of compliments from folks on her cape and hat.

superkitty enjoys trains. [304.365]

I took M to the Museum of Play after school on Friday, and she insisted on wearing her new cape, and the kitty ears we'd attached to her hat. There were surprisingly few kids there, for it being Halloween - I guess they were getting a head start on trick-or-treating? What few kids there were…

#tbt maddySMASH [303.365]

M's first Halloween. Aww.

matchy. [302.365]

M asked for a sweater when we got home from school today, and told me she wanted her sweater that's "like mama's today". So we snuggled on the couch in our matching garter rib cardigans. One of these days I really, really want to write up the series of "mama-kiddo" matching (or at least semi-matching)…

rainy autumn evening. [301.365]

The bus was running INCREDIBLY late yesterday, so even though it was raining, I decided to walk the full distance (2.6 miles) home instead of taking the bus part way (in which case I'd have a 1 mile walk). It was actually a kind of freakishly warm day for late October (our last day in…

“grab bag” [300.365]

I needed a new lap-swimming suit (and new prescription goggles), so I decided to once again do a "grab bag" suit from SwimOutlet, because it's like, half the price, and in general I've had good luck with getting decent colors. When I started to open the package and saw the "Barbie pink", I wasn't too…

In my office on a Sunday :( [299.265]

I have a new batch of papers to give feedback on, and after unsuccessful attempts to do so at home yesterday (M is not conducive to work that requires actually thinking!), I decided I'd need to go into my office for most of the day today. It was very. Cold, as evidenced by my thermometer.…

I have awesome friends [298.365]

These goodies (Bartlettyarns miniskeins, which I'd coveted at Rhinebeck but never got a chance to actually purchase, arrived in the mail for me along with a very sweet card from Yarny Old Kim, who is so very kind! I have the most awesome friends and I'm so grateful for them. The wool fumes on these…