Pumpkins, magnets, ribbons and more

My sister gave us her halloween pumpkin, which she didn't carve this year. She thought I could cook it to make something. I've never used anything other than pie pumpkins to bake, but figured I'd give it a try. I baked it up, and I was really suprised at how much like spaghetti squash the flesh was after baking. It's mashed now and cooling. I am thinking two loaves of pumpkin cranberry bread and a batch of pumpkin muffins. Abigail wants pumpkin pie, but I'd rather use a pie pumpkin for that.

Speaking of Abigail, she just did her space jigsaw puzzle in record time for her. She did some reading games and read some books this morning. We just did a magnet experiment. She sorted a bowl full of items by what stuck and didn't, then figured out what the "stuck" pile had in common. She proudly told me "Magnets stick to metal". Now she is playing memory while Isabella plays with the magnet and bowl of items. Happy day here.

Luis is upset with me. He really wants to go to his Holiday Party at work, and I'd love to go too. However, it's on the east side of Madison, about 25 minutes away from his parents house. Drinks are at 6:30, dinner at 7. Luis wants to leave all three kids with his parents, I say it's too long for Vincent to be away from me that close to bedtime. Figure we'd have to leave his parents around 6 and we wouldn't leave the restaurant until 8 or later. That's a minumum of 2.5 hours, and Vincent gets really sleepy a bit before 8. I think we should bring him with us, but Luis says we just won't go then. I don't know what his problem is. Vincent is only 14 months and has never been away from me for more than 30 minutes, spending that time with Luis. Abigail was 21 months when we took her to his company's holiday party.

I cut out the ribbons last night for the big order of wands, and discovered I was 12 yds short. Panic! Customer needs these before the end of Nov, and it takes 2-3 weeks to get more ribbon from my wholesaler. Luis is detouring to Madison today after work to see if the fabric store has some in the right color.

I'm reswatching the maroon Skyline yarn today. I decided last week I didn't want to use it for the sweater I'd cast on with it, so I frogged it. Now I can't remember what the guage is with the size 10 needles, so back to swatching I go. I'd really like to make a split neck pullover with it, or a crew neck cardigan. I'll see once I swatch again. The stripes are almost done on Vincent's lime/navy pullover back. It feels weird not to have a sock on the needles, but I want to get these others done before I let myself start any more socks.