Pumpkin Sunrise

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.  My weekend had some really good mail!  Ine from a picture book mind blog  sent me some sock scraps and lots of little goodies.  Some tea, some photo cards and a lovely hand drawn card, thank you Ine!! Also our daughter and fiance came for the weekend for a reception food tasting.  My the tasting was more like a meal and we left with most of our decisions made.  The facility is lovely and I am confident that come July the wedding is going to be a beautiful event. There was some mindless bookstore perusing, book flipping and enjoying being with like minded people as they look and discuss.  I sort of ease drop and listen in on the discussions.  I sometimes agree and sometimes have no clue what they are talking about.  You can't listen for long, just a slow walk by listen. Tod

I've been mulling over this quote I came across for the whole week and I thought I'd share it with you. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.      -Lao Tzu     This week has been sort of busy and sort of quiet.  A mixture of the two and when the quiet times were strung together I felt quite relaxed.  My husband's work hours have been kind of crazy these past weeks, it's temporary, but both of us get caught up in being disappointed in the hectic schedule.  But then there are days that ordinary hours occur and we forget the crazy schedule. I've been looking ahead in the coming months, thinking and planning in my imagination, trips to take, visits to organize with our son and our daughter.  Oh yes, and the wedding.  Not much thoughts on the wedding details, but I do think of the household tasks I'd love to complete before the entire family descends on

I finished reading A Tale for the Time Being  by Ruth Ozeki, my oh my was it a good book.  I will warn you though, it's a sad-good-hopeful kind of book.  I love how it delved into teenage bullying, writer's block, nature and how we take care of it, generations, mind - body connection.  All good. I'm still savoring bits of what I'm thinking about. I started a new book, The Storied Life of A J Fikry , and since I am in the beginning, I have no opinions as of yet. I also finished Daddy Long Legs  on my Kindle and it's another novel from my youth.  Apparently I was really into reading about orphans.  This one was a nice walk down memory lane.  I started Pollyanna  on my Kindle, another orphan but I never read this one!  I'm sure I'll enjoy it just as much.  The Kindle reading is my knitting time when I'm knitting simple knits. This week I started another Citron Shawl , because I have been wearing this one religiously this winter. I'm in my happ

I finished the baby cardigan for my nephew's soon to be baby.  While my sister was visiting, we popped into a big craft store and then I stood trying to decide the buttons.  Oh the buttons, the choices.  I could have had sports, cars, crayons-the list goes on and I was frozen with the possibilities.  I decided after a long thought on the elephants.  Can't say why, I guess I was in an elephant mood. Ravelry notes here

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.  My weekend was quite nice.  We spent the day with our daughter in her small town yesterday.  Our town is smaller and so there was an adjustment to the traffic, the sitting, the waiting.  Sometimes I wish I had those fancy stores in the "big" cities, but then I'd have to sit through a couple of lights to get where I'm going.  So I'll take the slow town where I'm creative where I shop and I arrive to places lightening fast. Today has been the same kind of Sunday as always.  We went to Mass-I cannot believe that Palm Sunday is next week! The laundry is half way done and I threw together some kind of dinner that turned out okay.  I stir fried asparagus and mushrooms in some oil and served it over left over buckwheat noodles and thin spaghetti (I

I've been doing a bit of reading and research about meditation.  I've never dipped my toes into Zen meditation, maybe I will.  However, upon further reflections, I find that I do indeed embrace meditation but differently. When I pray my Catholic prayers, I enter a calmer sense of being.  The older I get the more I appreciate all of those Catholic school days and how they are valuable to me on so many levels. On my daily walks as I place one foot in front of the other, a cadence is developed and soon I let go of tiny worries.  Sometimes I think about the birds I hear or the deer I see and sometimes I'm not thinking about anything in particular. Those nothing moments are treasured. When I sit down and pick up my knitting!  My, I love how each and every stitch I create lulls me into a state of happiness, quietness deep down inside.  I have knit through joyous times and in trying times.  If I am actively worrying about something, I'll pick up my knitting even if I

I continue to read three books from last week.  I'm over half way done with Linking your Beads , a fantastic historical overview of how the rosary came to be as well as the meanings behind the prayers and rituals.  I grew up in Catholic schools and I love how I'm learning new facts.  I read a chapter every day or so, savoring the learning. I am still reading A Tale for the Time Being  which continues to be wonderful, I'm nearly finished and I'll be sad when I read the last page.   Right Ho, Jeeves  will definitely be done today as well, very entertaining, light and amusing. This week I've been focusing on this shawl , working on it a little bit each day.  Getting excited to when I arrive at the lace section! Also yesterday I wrote about the kindness of fellow bloggers and my never ending sock scrap blanket . What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams