The little girl… your daughters. Sell them to me. Sell me your children!
About a month after my brother utterly failed with his April Fool’s Day prank to convince me that I was about to become an auntie, Rob and Michelle announced (for real this time!) that they will be parents by early 2005.
I have been joking with my family for years that I am going to be “Cool Aunt Jenn” who spoils my nieces and nephews rotten but never has any kids of my own, but I didn’t expect any of them to take me up on it so quickly!
My first project as “Cool Aunt Jenn” is to knit something absolutely stellar for the newborn. I have a really great idea for a new pattern, codename “Not your average fluffy pastel baby booties,” and if I can get it figured out correctly I’d like to submit it for publication. There are way too many cutesy baby bootie patterns on the market, and I have got something in the works that has some real personality to it.
The catch? If I’m going to submit the pattern, it would be helpful to borrow a baby who can try on the booties and model them once they are completed. The only person I know with a newborn lives several states away, and I’d prefer to take the pictures myself. Thinking that I’m either going to need to start making some new friends or dig up the CPKs from my youth. (Yes, I still have them – I’m an archivist and a documentarian, dammit!)
Anyone have any other suggestions?
“I’m an archivist and a documentarian”…
Yeah, that’s one way to put it…
“pack rat” would be a more accurate description!
archivist?….give me a break!
Look who’s calling the kettle black, Kettle… hahahahahah!