Pumpkin Sunrise

This is our Christmas morning before the opening of gifts.  The two gift bags on the table contained food so of course they had to be placed where our dear Frodo would not find them. The larger gift was for him.....treats, yum!  Each year the presents get a little smaller because everyone is all grown up now.  This year we were reminiscing (this word looks like it should be spelled a different way) about putting together barbie houses and hot wheel garages.  It would take hours but it was fun.  Yesterday we listened to the kids new CDs instead of assembling toys. I think in the next couple of weeks I will be quite entertained with three new cookbooks, many novels, and a new photo editing software.  The software will probably stretch my learning abilities. The cookbooks are whole food based.  The one is dairy free, gluten free, and egg free.  I have two relatives who have celiac disease and I always have a tough time with dairy so I thought it would be fun exploring some new menus

I am ready for the festivities to begin!  Did I finish my knitting goals for Christmas?  Yep.  Am I wrapped?  Yep.  Did I finish the baking?  Not really.  Baking is not my absolute favorite part of the holidays.  It just makes me eat more sugar than I really need to eat. As you know, we celebrated Christmas with my husband's parents in October and then my family during the Thanksgiving break.  That just leaves the four of us during the Christmas break.  I kind of like it.  We have lived away from extended family since our marriage (gasp! 25 years this year).  The Christmas break is filled with watching holiday movies, video game playing, walking Frodo and lots of reading.  Sometimes we venture out and do a bit of shopping.  It really is the only time during the year that we are all together.  I am sure in the near future the kids will be on their own and new traditions will begin. I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season filled with family, friends, laughter and

Good morning, today  is another blog post and of course I totally forgot to take a good photo during the day yesterday-although there was very very little sunshine.  I am starting to believe we will have a very rainy Christmas...boo hoo. For knitting this week, I am on the second scrap hat.  I finished the first hat and blogged about it here .  So as you can guess I am thoroughly enjoying the decreasing of the sock yarn project.  The hat in the above photo has more odds and ends but I am trying to stick to some color scheme.  I'm happy with it.  My other knitting project is my shawl .  I am on my first chart out of three.  I am on the second repeat out of six.  I have a very very long ways to go. I am currently reading Digging to America  and only just started it last night.  It has been on my bookshelf for quite some time and I have no opinions as of yet.  I finished The Wednesday Sisters  which was a very good book, I just didn't like the ending.  There was nothing wro