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Weekends

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Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments  in the comment section with a link to your blog. Oh what a weekend - it was perfectly dull and calm, just the way I like them.   My husband and I toyed with going out shopping on Saturday but in the end just talking and thinking about it was enough, we stayed home.  Today was church, laundry (as always) and knitting with my friends at my house!  Hence the photo of me standing on a chair getting a photo of our creative mess. Also my weekend contained: :: homemade pizza :: walking with Frodo and the Mister :: puzzle solving on paper :: reading :: cookies! :: phone calls with the kids :: arithmetic thinking for knitting :: lots of hot tea :: rearranging skeins and contemplating future knitting projects :: How was your weekend?

Friendships

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Let me tell you a story.  When we moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the early 90's, we lived in an old farmhouse that was located eight miles from the main road.  The drive to the farmhouse was beautiful, bald eagles soared above and the road twisted here and there through the woods. I was a stay at home mom with a little two year old girl.  We only had one car which my husband used to get to work and back.  I was isolated and alone in a pretty farmhouse with three sets of neighbors who liked to keep to themselves and definitely were not my age. As you can imagine, I grew lonely, anxious and incredibly sad during those brief nine months.  I doubted my decision to stay at home, I missed having a community and friends.  In the spring time, we moved to town where my husband's job was located.  I attended story time at the local county library and it was there I met some friends.  Three lovely women who opened the doors of friendship and adopted me in the circle

Currently on the Needles

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Ha!  New book and not so new knitting this week.  I started Blue Asylum  a couple days ago and I'm enjoying the story.  It is "gothic" and I do love that angst that is captured in a gothic novel.  I also started reading The Song of the Lark  by Willa Cather on my Kindle, also a great novel that I'm enjoying. I have made more progress on my sweater .  I've separated the sleeves off and I'm working on the body.  Underneath the book is my scarf that I'm knitting for my husband.  That project is slow going but I've placed a marker whenever I pick it up so I can see the few inches I've had to motivate me more. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams