May 23, 2005

What?!

Sweet One decided over the weekend she wanted a new cross-stitch project. With summer on the way and the temperature in the mid-90s in Louisiana on Saturday, I thought it a good idea, particularly since I had just finished this project for Sweet One's room and wanted to take it to be cleaned and framed.

Abandoning Wee One to my mother's care, Sweet One and I went to a little boutique-style cross-stitch shop in my hometown, bought several patterns, nice fabric, and the speciality threads for her design.

However, we did not pick up all the floss needed for her project because I have about nine thread boxes full of most every color DMC makes.

After we returned home and unloaded the truck on Sunday, Sweet One could not wait to break out the thread boxes to compile and organize the various items necessary to begin stitching. I warned her to make more than one trip and not try to carry all the thread boxes at once.

Sweet One failed to heed my advice and proceeded to stagger in behind an armload of boxes. Of course, before she made it to the dining room, she dropped two of the boxes and some two or three hundred individually wrapped bobbins fell to the floor. Mind you, these are all arranged in each box numerically.

Sweet One was crushed with the knowledge she was going to have to put them all back in their respective boxes in the correct order.

Upon hearing the commotion, Wee One came in, surveyed the mess, looked at her sister, and stated: "Oh, man, what a pisser."

It would appear Sweet One has been graced with my love of needlework while Wee One has inherited my, ummm, expressiveness.

Posted by Christina at May 23, 2005 11:53 AM

Comments

Surely you jest!! YOU? expressive?? *L* I can see and hear it now. I've personally never had the patience to do cross stich, but my sister did do "Red beans and rice" and gave it to me while I was home; it looks almost good enough to eat!

Posted by: Michele at May 23, 2005 01:30 PM

Awww I used to love making cross stitch designs! One year I managed to make pictures for every member of my family. My greatest achievement is this 11x14 one I did of a horse standing outside of a window....I had to use 2-3 different colors on each x and it was on a black background....it was very complicated and gorgeous when I finally finished it! I wish my oldest daughter would show an interest in something like that, but she is addicted to the Sims.

Posted by: jules at May 23, 2005 01:34 PM

What a pisser.....hehe. Don't you hate it when they repeat such things? It happens to me...um...not infrequently;-)

Posted by: sadie at May 23, 2005 01:53 PM

Heh. I love to cross stitch but I can't do it much anymore. I'm still giggling over Wee One's comment. So wrong...

Posted by: caltechgirl at May 23, 2005 03:01 PM

*slaps mummys wrist for her expressiveness in front of the children*

I can just imagine the look on your face when she said that lol.

Posted by: silk at May 23, 2005 04:13 PM

I've never cross stitched, intentionally anyway, but I'm so old, I remember back when you wrote 'puter programs on punch cards, 80 characters at a time, and they had to be in order.

You.Did.Not.Want.To.Drop.Your.Stack on the way to the loader. When you did, you received the "What a pisser error", went to the corner, and resequenced your stack... Not thread, or spools, or bobbin's gone awry but stil a PITA.

Posted by: RedNeck at May 23, 2005 05:19 PM

YOU say that?! Heh, doesn't sound like you... :D

Posted by: Key at May 23, 2005 06:18 PM

Ha!

Actually, when I said it in front of Wee One, it was an offhand remark to Sweet One, mimicking something someone we know says all the time. She thinks it's funny, except for yesterday...

;-)

Posted by: Christina at May 23, 2005 06:42 PM

bwa ha ha haaaaa! classic story. if only we listened to our mothers more often -- after all, we hate it when they're right, don't we.

Posted by: amelie at May 23, 2005 07:12 PM

Too funny...she was probably just happy to point and laugh at her sis.

How freaking funny!

Posted by: Sissy at May 23, 2005 08:33 PM

A) your project is lovely

B) you're as anal as I am about organizing embroidery floss

C) That's pretty damned hilarious!!!!

:-)

MB

Posted by: Madame Butterfly at May 23, 2005 08:56 PM

Heheh! Gotta love kids, and the things they'll say! Girl cracks me up!

Posted by: That 1 Guy at May 23, 2005 09:53 PM

That Wee One inherited your feistiness, too. Sweet One, on the other hand, has quite a good creative streak...she had some nice contributions to the 25-Word Challenge before it became a sleazefest.

;-)

Posted by: zonker at May 23, 2005 09:58 PM

Out of the mouths of babes. hehehe

Posted by: Pammy at May 23, 2005 10:03 PM

Oh, that is great. The best I've heard all day!

Posted by: oddybobo at May 24, 2005 04:44 PM

Hm...very nice. Are you not also the one who teaches your girls to shoot guns?? So, you crosstitch and shoot firearms....very interesting...

Posted by: Redhead Mommy at May 24, 2005 05:23 PM

Beautiful post.

Posted by: funchilde at May 25, 2005 07:51 PM

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