Pumpkin Sunrise

Holiday phase two:  Christmas again with our daughter and son in law! the infamous coffee table lucky I have time for knitting on the citron shawl playing with my camera his and her shoes citron that might need a few rows taken out.... I have to tell you, I'm swimming in the details of being hostess.  I have a long list to execute today and I want to get my regular blood work done before the end of the year (today!) since our insurance parameters change a bit next year. As I type, I have a sticky note on my left hand to remind me of this.  A fail safe method of remembering. It's so good to have the house full and yet it's busy.  I find pockets of time to knit and relax and just rest.  I forget what it's like to have family here for a week.  I like the reminder :) Today my sister, brother in law and nephew arrive for Phase Three of my holiday visitors. There's more cleaning, more grocery shopping, more cooking and baking,  and strip

Apparently this is my sixth citron shawl , so says Ravelry.  I love this pattern immensely!  This shawl is my Christmas day cast on with some lovely wool that my sister bought for me on her vacation out west.  The yarn is wonderful to work with!!  I'm planning to make this shawl big and will need to add to the yarn but for now I'm happy with what I'm knitting. I started a new book! Mosquitoland is a YA novel that my son said was pretty good.  Unfortunately my time to read is severely limited this week.  My house is full of family and more family will arrive over the weekend. I finished Commonwealth and did not care for it.  The middle became interesting and I was completely invested.  The ending left me wondering all sorts of things. Overall, lots of people love this book (according to Goodreads) so I find myself thinking that maybe it is me? What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

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. Merry Christmas!  How was your weekend holiday?  I hope peaceful and enjoyable.  I had a wonderful weekend with most of our presents opened yesterday.  Oh hey, I received from Santa a new camera lens.  All of the photos are from the new lens and so far I am loving photography all over again. Saturday I read all day mostly trying to get some serious progress done on Alexander Hamilton.   I'd love to finish by the new year but I'm not.  I don't have the time to read all day every day from here to then.  So maybe by January 15th?  Yep.  Totally doable. Saturday evening we attended the Children's Christmas Eve Mass.  Those little ones look so little and cute.  Pretty dresses for the girls and bow ties and suspenders for a few of the young men. Bow ties remind me of