Big needles

Does anyone else have the need to occasionally get out the BIG needles? 12 rows and the band is done love it love it. I am making a bat wing jumper for Hannah's friend Ruthie. Hannah wants a specific pattern with a list of subtle though mathematically challenging changes in a specific yarn that does not quite match the pattern anyway. Ruthie pointed to a pattern said 'that one' and had a range of acceptable yarns. The bat wing is done in 2 pieces, front and back. So easy. A bit of easy knitting and my current obsession with watching the DVDs of the final series of the West Wing is keeping me sane while:
the husband threatens to buy a digital SLR to run around fields attempting to photograph butterflies. No chance of persuading him that yarn stores of the nation is a much more interesting topic.
The son has his final A level exam on Monday and has reguarly looked horribly stoned in the last 2 weeks. We intend making the July allowance his last-he is blissfully unaware that adult life beckons. We will announce this when he finishes exams.
The daughter got to Israel to find the UJIA had not booked her into an absorption centre and she is on the couch at a friend's flat-essentially homeless, 19 and overseas. She tells me that it is sunny and beautiful so thats OK then.
I say thank god for the comfort of the occasional 10mm needle project.