Knitting Crisis!!!!

Crisis on the knitting front. Well...let me calm you by saying that the crisis was ultimately averted, but for a while there we were all a little worried. Pink and purple turtle was not touched while I was stuck inside during the ice storm. We were on our way to grandma's house for dinner. I had all intentions of taking pink/purple turtle with me and making a little more progress to appease DD. Before heading out into the chilly, slick outter world, I packed up the knitting bag and grabbed p/p turtle from where he had fallen when one of the pups stuck their nose into my bag to see what was in there. I noticed something detrimental. There were only 3 dpn's. WHAT? Turtle was near the edge of being under the couch, so I pushed it aside and muddled through all the forgotten toys to see if it was sniggled among them. (Those of you with young children can relate to toys under the couch. If little one can't find a toy, begin with in and under the couch.) I wanted to cry. The much needed dpn was not there. How was I going to tell DD that her mommy couldn't work on her turtle because a needle was missing. I broke the terrible news. She didn't cry, didn't whine....instead she put on her detective face and said "I'll help you find the needle, mommy. Is it blue?" I assured her that we would find it. After 20 minutes of searching, we found nothing. I knew that we had to leave the house to be able to return after dinner before the temp dropped and the roads became icy again. I mentally vowed to search again when I got home.

Off to dinner...................back to home. I sat down and began pulling items out of my knitting bag. Wondering if I hadn't overlooked it among the tangles of scissors, tape measures and pens found in the bottom of the bag. I pulled out the purple skein. I saw the 3 needles and a crochet hook tucked inside the skein. I reached in to pull them out and felt something. AHA! Eureka! Arggg!! (Mythbusters pirate edition is on.)I felt soooo dumb. As soon as DD saw it, she was sure to let me know that now her turtle could be finished. I guess now I'm off to knit......after browsing a few blogs. :))