What to do when at home for 2 days with a sick child? Said child has nothing serious, but enough germies that we don't feel they should be shared with the larger school populace. Thus, child is installed on the couch, OJ and TV remote close by.
Unable to head into the shop, I felt a little at loose ends. On day #1, child woke up at 5am and was unable to get back to sleep. He has a very unfortunate cough - poor little man. He went on the couch with a comic book, I got on the computer to see what I could accomplish at 5am.
Turns out - quite a bit. It is remarkable how productive you can be in the hours between 5 and 8am! Got most of the tax info organized for the accountant. Paid the bills. Answered the emails (not all - still working on that one). Sorted out other random businessey stuffs.
8am arrived and it was time to get the healthy child off to school. Side trip to the drugstore to pick up a thermometer. The two others that I was pretty sure we owned and existed somewhere in our house where not to be found yesterday. (Note: discovered one this afternoon sitting on the kitchen windowsill. This is where I am tempted to make a snarky remark about the clever person who left it there instead of where it belonged, but I have a nagging suspicion that the genius was me.)
Back home with sick child. Time for movies! This is my favorite part of home/sick days. Camping out on the couch in our PJs and watching endless brain-mushing TV.
And knitting. Lots of knitting.
My polar bear now has a body!
The Fireside Sweater has two fronts and the back is officially cast on!
Since one of my Ravelympic goals is to finish the Fireside, I was very psyched to have the back actually on the needles.
Of course, I didn't really think it completely sporting of me to just finish my current project as an olympic event, so I'm adding in a Citron shawl to my challenge. In true knitting Olympic tradition, I am not casting on for the Citron until opening ceremonies, and must bind off by closing ceremonies. Any temptation I may have had to start early, has been very easy to resist as the yarn I want to use hasn't arrived yet. If FedEx gets it here tomorrow, I will be knitting my Citron in Jojoland Cashmere. Oolala!
The Araucania sock continues to add a lovely splash of color to my knitting bag.
(A big thanks to Tessa, for her modeling appearance.)
Today, sick day #2, I am happy to report that the child feels better. The temp is almost gone and his energy is up.
I got some crazy notion about taking advantage of the extra time at home to clean and spent most of the morning collecting dust bunnies and scrubbing counters. Absolute insanity, I know. How could I have wasted such good knitting time? I did try to knit, but once the sheer magnitude of the mess hit me, I couldn't settle down until some of it was tackled.
I am now back at the computer blogging instead of emailing. Posting now and heading to the inbox.