We are traveling to Boise for Thanksgiving so today I did my most important preparation for the 30 (give or take) hours I’ll be spending in the car to get there and back.

Laundry you might guess?  Finding a lizard sitter, perhaps?  A trip to the library for books on CD?  Nope.

I bought yarn.

Today while the 3 big kids were at school I braved the yarn store with the 3 littles in tow.  Eva and Hunter were both asleep in their car seats when we got there, so I opted to take the stroller in.  Consequently I kept knocking things over with it.  Yarn stores are not frequented by doubler strollers, I guess.  And of course Hunter didn’t stay asleep.  There was much too much to touch and carry around and knock over for the sleeping to continue.

Luckily he’s cute.  The little ladies that work at the yarn store were very gracious when he decided to show me the skein of canary yellow yarn from the BOTTOM of the stack.

Ian found a lot of things he thought were irresistibly beautiful too, but since he’s 4 he’s not quite as destructive.  Not quite.

Eva stayed asleep.  Phew.

Amid all the re-shelving and even a potty break I did find what I needed.  You see, I’m going to make a Camilla for Brenna and a baby one for Eva.  I love the colors of the Quince & Co. yarns and thought for weeks about just ordering yarn, but I decided not to.  I am so wool sensitive that even merino is itchy to me sometimes and I know Brenna is the same way.  The Quince & Co. yarns are 100% American wool– not merino wool, just wool.  I don’t want these to itch– I want them to be worn and worn and worn, so I got a cotton blend yarn called Weekend by Berroco in exactly the colors I wanted.

I’m going to make them some skirts with ruffle fabric to match.

Now I’ve got to do that laundry and make lizard sitting arrangements before I can yet started.