Thanks guys. Feeling a little better now. The Dr. called back (8 hours later, but who’s counting) with a new prescription for my little one. The weird blog stripe has been fixed (thanks Melanie! thanks Dave!). I am buying new pants. I’m considering a math tutor (for ME). And I have a new carrot strategy (see comments).

A little background…My younger son has asthma. He was hospitalized at 2 years old due to an attack that we just couldn’t get on top of. It was really scary. Although the last 4+ years have been stable and good with daily meds, any unusual respiratory problems with him FREAK me out. I’ll never forget sitting on his hospital bed with him laying on my chest. He was so miserable, coughing every 30 seconds, struggling and exhausted. He’d lift his head up to look at me and say, “Shoes… Coat… Car.” then he’d flop back down onto my chest. Poor puppy, he wanted out of there bad, and he had a plan. We still use that expression around here when we are heading out of the house. “Let’s go! Shoes! Coat! Car!”

Now, after only living here about a year, we still have not settled into doctors (or their staff!) that we are comfortable with. I know that no one will replace the pediatricians that have known my kids since birth. Dang, they were great doctors and nurses. I miss them! Moving on now…

Recently I was looking at the granny squares I had started over the summer. I’m still learning crochet and realizing that my squares are coming out different sizes. Hmmm. I’m trying to decide what to do with them. I could connect them and make a scarf. I was also thinking about a pillow cover or a throw. I’ll never have the patience to make a whole project just out of squares, so I laid them out on a piece of linen fabric as a background. I got the idea from a summer issue of my fave mag Marie Claire Idees. See the blanket on the right below?

I was also thinking about experimenting with different crocheted shapes and maybe connecting them like the pillow on the left. Click the pic if you want to bigger it.

For a brilliant tutorial on making hexagons, visit Attic24. I may try them next!