Finished objects, snow, and work in progress

I have been meaning to post for a few weeks now. I've composed many an entry in my head, but I have failed to execute, til now. So this will be a multifaceted post.

To begin: Finished objects

Yay! I finished my mittens! They are soft and lovely and beautiful, even if I realized when they were done that one cuff is slightly longer than the other. I don't care. Isn't there some tradition about knitting a mistake into everything so as to not claim perfection? Not my aim, but I'll use it as an excuse any day. Anyhow, here they are:

I finished them rather a while ago--before spring break. Speaking of breaks, that leads me to my next topic:

Snow

Today I'm home for a snow day. It is still early and so far the day hasn't brought anything particularly intersting (except worry--and who needs to read about that? Phil went to work, and he's supposed to fly to DC this afternoon. That never makes for a very relaxing snow day, so I won't say any more about it.) What I want to write about is the FIRST snow day we had this season from a couple of weeks ago. THAT was a quality snow day. I got to stay home, and Phil stayed home, too. A rare treat! We spent the whole day in the livingroom--we don't often spend much time in there as it's usually a dog-free zone and we like to be with the pooches. But on that magical snow day we made exceptions. Everyone was welcome. Phil did some work from home:

This was clearly as good as doing work at the office, except that if you got up to pee, you risked losing your seat:

If you're wondering what's up with Milton's appearance (looks like he just had brain surgery), it isn't as alarming as all that. He has a cut at the tip of his ear, and when it comes open, it bleeds like crazy. Only way to stop it is to put the ear on top of his head and bandage him up to keep it there for a couple days or so. He hates this scenario, but to be honest, it made him very calm on the snow day and so he was quite well-behaved while in the usually-dog-free zone. He also got special privileges, like being allowed on the livingroom couch.

I did some knitting--this was before the mittens were done.

And mostly we all just hung out and enjoyed the cozy fire.

Our friendly neighbors who live across the street (also teachers) came over for lunch. We had vegetable soup and ham and cheese paninis. It was a lovely time. That is how snow days should be.

My final topic of the day is 'work in progress.'

I can speak to this on two fronts: 1) knitting. 2) baby (and maybe they are sort of related).

As far as knitting goes, I bought some yarn (that I didn't need) at our Craft Mania because the store is closing and the yarn was 40% off. I didn't by anything too special, just some versatile stuff that could be used for lots of projects. I have decided to actually knit something for my kid, but as my repetoire of knitting skills is limited and my energy even more so, I am simply knitting a little hat. I like hats. I like wearing them, I like knitting them, I like admiring other people's. So that is what I am doing. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of that work in progress. I'll have that for next time. Maybe it will even be done (what with this being a snow day and all).

As far as baby goes, we are starting to shape up what will be the baby's room. The crib was delivered and outfitted (by my mother-in-law--thanks Nancy!) over February vacation. I think it looks charming. Perhaps as homage to my newfound (newish, anyway) love of knitting, there are sheep on the banket.

Also as far as baby goes, here I am, a work in progress myself!

I think that will have to do for now. I'm about to actually put all the pictures in place for this entry, so cross your fingers and toes that blogger cooperates.