Who stole my motivation?

Looks like I'll be taking care of yesterday's stuff today... I just felt *blah* all day. I got a few things done, but spent a good bit of time working on a swim suit cover-up I'm knitting for myself. I'm determined to finish it before summer is over!! I'm about half-way there. Then I got side-tracked. I always have a zillion projects at once. So I put that down and experimented with some other things and made two little gifty things. I think the cloudy weather had me out of sorts. It finally started raining about 4 p.m. Ethan wanted to play on the porch all afternoon, and I had to drag him inside. Just in time, too, because it started pouring. He put on his hat, stood at the window and held his hands out, cupped as though he were trying to catch the water. You can see that he's practicing to become his own tattoo artist.

I basically got nothing done around the house. After I cooked dinner and cleaned that up, I really began to crave the chocolate chip cookies Heather made for Father's Day, but didn't feel like making them. But I got myself up and did it anyway... And managed to get all the ingredients into the bowl without any accidents - little hands kept grabbing at bowls and such... I was really close to having 3 3/4 cups of flour all over the floor! But the end result was definitely worth it all!!

Ethan has just become successful at putting his shoes on by himself. He came walking out of his room this morning with shoes on his feet -- they were two different shoes, and they were both left shoes... but they were on!!

I've made my first attempt at felting a knit project today. I knit a swatch to see how much this yarn shrinks. It's drying, now, and I'm not sure if it did what it's supposed to, but we'll see. I thought the stitching was supposed to "disappear" more than it did. I'm waiting for it to dry, then I'll block it and "groom" it a bit. Here's how it looks now.

Guess that's enough rambling for one day.