Welcome to the Very Pink Nits podcast, the companion podcast to the Very Pink Nits YouTube channel.

I'm Stacey and am I here by myself?

No.

Thank heavens.

Hi, friends.

I'm here with Polly.

Polly's doing well.

She's well once again.

If you would like to get your knitting question on the show, please email it to podcast at very pink.com and please tell us where you're from. And if you're enjoying the ad-free show, please consider supporting it. You can go to patreon.com slash very pink knits for more information. Should I just keep going with all of this? Yeah, I think you should. Our yarn patron, as always, is Turtle Pearl. They make

identical twins, self-striping sock yarn in the coolest colorways. Very nice yarn. Follow them on

Instagram. That's always a good follow on Instagram or Facebook to see what the new colorways are,

to see the colorway that you've been waiting for when it comes back around. Yeah. We always have a coupon code. So check the show notes for a link to the Turtle Pearl website and coupon code. How are you feeling, Polly? I am 100%. I'm all better. And when I said, thank goodness you're not by yourself. It's not because you didn't do an awesome job last week because you it. It was so horrible. You missed it. I was here by myself and I had to do a whole podcast

all by myself. I was so sad. I just said to Stacey before we hit record, this is so much more than

like a job for me. And I realized that I was missing out on a sit down with my friend. Yeah.

Getting to do this is just such a perk. Yeah, for me, like to record the podcast, there was

no visiting beforehand. There was no, you know, back and forth. It was just, I came upstairs.

I talked into a microphone and then I went to downstairs. It was weird. It was not my podcasting experience. It was very different. I'm glad you're feeling better. And your family is better as well. Everyone's better. Yeah. Everybody's better. That's a thing. Like stomach bugs are no fun, but they are usually short-lived. That's right. Thank heavens for that. Yeah. Yeah, we've made it through and now we're on the other side of that. Thank goodness. I live in fear of a stomach bug. Yeah. So when it descended, I was like, no. You live in fear of a stomach bug? Mm-hmm. I'd rather be sick with a respiratory illness for weeks than have to deal with the stomach. See, if I have a respiratory illness, I would say, oh, I'd rather be barfing. And then if I'm barfing, I would say, oh, I'd rather. I want whichever one I don't have because it feels so horrible. No, the stomachic makes me like cry. It's just too, it's awful. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You were probably not even well enough to get some good knitting time out of it. No. No. In fact, I posted on Instagram, I couldn't knit. Like I just felt I just needed to be still, completely still. Oh. Oh, God. Which was difficult because my children were also sick.

Honestly, like the four of us have never been sick at exactly the same time.

Oh.

It was rough.

Yeah.

My sister and I were talking about, like, I asked her, I said, how do you as a mom, like, deal with two sick kids when you are also sick to your stomach?

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