My 6-year old nephew runs over to me and says: "Why don't you get married, so, you will not be alone and will have a family like ours?"
Completely taken aback with this question, I asked: "Why do you want me to be married?"
He responds without a second of hesitation: "So, I will have cousins to play with".

How does one respond to something like this. I had absolutely no idea where this question came to his mind. So, I told my sister that her insightful 6-yr old wanted me to be married. She laughed and told me what transpired between the two of them, before he ran over to pose the question.

(Setting: My sister and her family just moved from an apartment to a large and lovely single family house. She and my nephew were sitting in the living room, while I was in the kitchen)

Nephew: "Ma, I am scared"
Sister: "Scared? What has scared you?"
Nephew: "This is such a large house and and I am all alone"
Sister (trying to explain that he is not all alone but we are all together in the house with Ma, father, little brother): "You are not all alone, but we are all live in this house, and we can see each other in, even if we are in different rooms."
Nephew: "How many rooms do we have?"
Sister: "Lets count how many rooms we have, shall we?"
My nephew and sister, count the number of rooms and come to some random number 7-8 rooms. To which my nephew continues
Nephew: "How many rooms does aunty (aunty = me) have?"
Sister: "She also have 6-7 rooms"
Nephew: "Who lives with her?"
Sister: "She lives all alone"
Nephew: "All alone?! She does not see anyone in another room?"
Sister: "Yes, she stay in her home, with no one else."
Nephew: "Why doesn't she get married, so she can see someone else in another room?"
Sister: "Why don't you ask her?"
Nephew: "No, you ask her"
Sister: "No, you have the question, you ask her."

At this point (my sister reported to me), my nephew walked out of the living room, and into the connecting dinning room, wandered around in circles for a few mins and then dissappeared. This was the point where he came upto me asking me to get married.

Gosh! Professional movers are fast. Within 3-4 hours they had loaded the truck and after a short lunch break, they unloaded the truck at the new place. Boxes all over (again! just different location). I found myself in the morning, packing the last minute items from the kitchen, all marked as "open immediately, if you want to cook". And in the afternoon, I found myself, unpacking those boxes. It was just weird.

It is everything a colonial house could want and has. It has gorgeous entry way with fantastic flow of the house to the living room and dinning. My sister thinks the kitchen is outdated. I agree, but still love it. Kitchen is connected to a wonderful pantry that looks over the backyard.

In short it is lovely. I loved it, and for a short time was willing to trade mine for it. But a week later, I got home sick and wanted to get back to my own home. :)

The closing went smoothly, while I was packing more boxes. we move tomorrow.

Packing, packing and more packing. Also having fun playing with my two nephews (one 6-year old and the other 2-year). Boy! They have tones to say and tell me.

More packing! Boxes and packing materials everywhere.

I am in New York helping my sister and family to pack and move to their new home.

A true vacation, finally. I am headed tomorrow to New York to spend some time with my sister. The start of the vacation was rather great, with the company summer picnic on private lakeside up north near Canobie lake. For the first time I rode the water jet ski, after being pursuaded by my boss. It was thrilling, exciting and a tad frightening going that speed over the lake. Over thunder squalls, cold beer and hot burgers, it was a great way to spend the afternoon.

Not too bad for few days of furious knitting. The pattern is so simple, no really, it is simply four rows of perfectly easy knitting. After a few rows, I have the pattern in the head. I did not have the Allegra yarn, so I substituted with Shine (60% prima cotton, 40% modal). And changed the color to a vibrant apricot.

Here is the back and the detail picture of the pattern. Put on some dark glasses, this yarn is meant to brighten anyone's day.