LOL!
the minions aren't bad, they'll be out relatively soon (or when dh gets home from work...) the good thing is that they're older and pretty self-sufficient so I'm not needed as much as i was when they were little (course when they were little, they'd be in bed by now! LOL!)
on the socks, not beginning, ending
I'll be turning both heels this hour and then finishing them off... which will officially complete my knitting for our tribe's yule gathering on the 17th... so then it's onto a shawl (the Freya shawl i found on ravelry... using caron simply soft shadows in soft merino)