Feet

Patrick's mom, Mary, came to visit us last weekend. It was lovely, but so short! We went to the Chicago Botanic Gardens again; the day was perfect, and I was really amazed by how much had changed since we were there last just a month ago. Instead of tulips, all the irises were blooming, and a crazy plant called Tower of Jewels. All the pictures are on Patrick's camera, so you'll have to wait or else visit his blog for that. After the gardens, we went shopping at a mall across the highway with a Trader Joe's (hooray for strawberry popsicles!) and a Loehmann's, which Mary likes a lot and where I tried on almost everything that was white in an effort to find something to wear to the Moving Up ceremony in a couple of weeks. Patrick was a very good sport (I think he has a career as a personal shopping assistant if this history PhD business doesn't work out), and Mary found a few nice things, too.

Back at the condo, Patrick and I discovered that all our futon-moving--what with Mary's visit this weekend, my dad's visit two weeks ago (I have to blog about that, too. It was a great visit), and the normal sliding around when we sit on it--has been scratching up the floor! There was only one thing for it: the futon's wooden feet needed socks. So I knit some up with size 5 needles and a ball of KnitPicks Wool of the Andes, a 100% wool yarn that I got pretty inexpensively online. The corners are kind of messy looking, but oh well! The color is Hollyberry. Yay!

It's gotten hot here. You came at just the right time, Dad. Luckily, while I have several more days with my girls working on final presentations and ceremonies, I have no more formal class! Summer, summer, summer!!!

Oh and by the way, I added some labels to my posts. If you click on "family," for example, you'll see all the posts I've ever made with that label. :)