Spread a little love...

Welcome February! The weird 28-day month where we celebrate Black history, women's heart health awareness month, Valentine's Day and as a finale, my birthday. Maya will be 18 months old, except she was robbed of her 'official' 18 month old benchmark because her birthday falls on the 30th, so she's a little jipped of this ever so important marker of her toddlerhood and will just have to share mommy's birthday on the 28th.


With all the Sturm und Drang (go Tim Gunn) in the news these days, the unemployment rate, Haiti, economic woes and Toyotas not being safe (sheesh) it's nice to have places to turn to that focus on the positive. It is after all a 'love month'.  I came across Optimist World, a website that reports on positive news, charities, tales of triumph and all around 'fuzzy feeling' inducing stories. The Saints winning yesterday ain't bad either. And this Sarah Palin oops is just plain funny, unless you're a Republican which I doubt many of you (you being my loyal and dedicated readers) are. So enjoy.


Another fun project of late has been a little knitting enterprise I started up with a friend of mine. We call this little project of ours that keeps us up knitting at night Urban Baby Knits, and for those of you who are aware of Etsy, truly a little gem of a website, we opened up a shop there to sell well, you guessed it - knits for babies. We don't have much up yet but we're hoping to keep it going (so please check back! We'd love your feedback), and we sure are having a lot of fun designing items for it. I find it to be a rather satisfying hobby, with a concrete finished product at the end.

So there it is - we knit, watch football, celebrate birthdays, take naps, host friends, bundle up and make plans for dinner to make it through this ever so coldest of months. And if you're particularly tired and down about the weather and need a laugh - there's always Cake Wrecks.