So, we have been sick again.

Elizabeth started out with the cold symptoms the day after this picture was taken. It was only lightly raining that day, but she insisted on boots, coat, hood, and umbrella. She is such a little Oregonian. Or maybe she was already feeling a bit sick and I just thought it was cuteness.

Having a two year old seems to mean that we get sick once or twice a month in the fall and winter. We used to be very healthy people, I promise.

Sickness didn’t really stop me from working on projects,though it did seem to keep me from finishing them. The desk and dresser are still in the painting process (nearly ready for their own post). The flag banners are sewn, but not ironed and finished.  Kitchen cabinets are re-hung with new hinges and hardware, but not planed or touch-up painted.

 So instead of finishing those projects (or many others I failed to list), I started knitting a new scarf.

I know, another scarf.

I knit a lot of scarves.  More accurately, when I knit, I usually knit scarves. There is something relaxing and not challenging that I like about scarves (or cat blankets as I call them if they are too wide and long). I have knit things that aren’t scarves (a hat and a stuffed animal for Elizabeth), but it is hard to gear up the enthusiasm for something more complicated when I could just be knitting a scarf, drinking tea, and watching Midsomer Murders movies on Netflix. How can I resist?

Being sick, we did watch a lot more TV than normal. Elizabeth especially got extra TV time. We would climb out of bed in the morning and put on a Sesame Street video and give her milk and toast and sneak back to bed for the forty minute run time. This of course was a lack of supervision we had not tried before. After yesterday, we probably won’t try it again for a long time. We ended up with this:

Elizabeth and my lipstick had a party in the bathroom. Duncan had to work really hard not to laugh when he caught her. She was being so perfectly two years old.

~ Krista