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. Hello! Have you recovered from the holidays?  Getting there?  Oh my, I sure am.  We had the slowest weekend ever.  As promised on Friday, I put away the Christmas tree and all of my decorations.  That photo above is where the tree twinkled and glowed.   I love the wide opened spaces I'm seeing now in my home.  It's good.  It's refreshing.  Our son is still here and he has the "cold" that his sister brought.  This weekend had him on the couch while my husband and I prayed to not catch it and steered clear of his sneezing and coughing.  He's feeling much better.  He leaves on Wednesday to returned to Boston to start up another semester This weekend I... -took a daily walk and was chilled by the winter weather  - finished some hats  - had Chines

Good morning and Happy New Year's day to all of you.  Don't you love the newness of this day.  It's shiny and bright, unblemished and the whole entire year is rolled out in front of us.  I love January 1st.  Along with the beginning of a new year, I see a chance for improvement and growth. New intentions, old intentions, both resurrected.  I've been in list making mode the past few days.  Writing thoughts down to paper makes the goals real and justified.  So here it goes, my ideas and focuses. Health: -I received from Santa a great new cookbook and I've been reading the chapters here and there and want to incorporate more whole food cooking in our diet.  This cookbook is good, I love the recipes and the photos and how "doable" they are as I read them.  I also think we will both like eating them. -Yoga every single day.  That about sums it up. -Eating less sugar (who me??) State of Mind: -practice living in the "now" and qu

I'm reading two books and they are both the same.  They are both slow going as well, partly because of me and partly because of the full house.  I am not finding much time to read!!    Station Eleven  is coming along and I love the writing style.  My other book is One Thousand Gifts  and that is inching along. My knitting has been here and there as well.  I've been leaning towards quick projects.  The hat on the right is finished and came out a wee bit small.  I'm hoping a severe blocking session will make it bigger.  The wool is super wash and that tends to grow for me.  The hat on the left is making me quite happy to knit as well!!  Lovely pattern :) The origami butterfly was made by my son, who has been making all sorts of paper creatures scattered around the house.  I'm thinking of hanging them all on the tree. 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. How was your weekend? Today when I took Frodo outside for a walkabout, I spied four deer in the woods and lucky me, I got the photo of one!  It's not easy when Frodo is tugging me and I only have my iphone and it only zooms so much.  I feel like my day is complete. My weekend is the extended version since I didn't post on Friday.  Christmas was lovely and we enjoyed having all the kids home for the holidays.  We opened gifts, I made waffles and latter we had a traditional turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and stuffing.  Before we said Grace we did Oplatek  and I remembered Christmases past and traditions that last.  I'm lucky that my church has the wafers available and maybe my children will keep the tradition when they start their own celebrations

This week I've been knitting two projects.  The first is the scarf for my husband on size three, what was I thinking?  It is not a Christmas gift, phew.  But the purple is dark and hard to see for me so I keep making little mistakes...so daylight is the only time I work on it.  My next project is a hat for me?  or for whoever?  I loved this pattern when it was first out and have been itching to cast on!! I'm reading two books, first one is on the kindle-- One Thousand Gifts and my second book is Station Eleven .  I cannot really comment on either since both are in the early stages of reading. What are you reading and knitting this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

I completed this shawl a week ago and I wish you could feel this yarn.  So so so very soft, quite decadent.  There in nothing as thrilling as casting off on a shawl, those many stitches rhythmically taken off the needles.  Joy! The pattern was quite soothing and most of the time I was knitting on automatic pilot.  Until I arrived at the lace design.  I never quite achieved total memorization! I'm slipping in my brilliant knitting skills. The  wool  was hand dyed by my in real life knitting friend.  She is talented and generous!  She used Madder root, whatever that is.  I know this, I love the orange. 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. I'm a little earlier than usual but I've got company coming tonight and I know I'll be busy then.  So here goes my weekend summary. Friday night was a Christmas work party and dinner.  We had fun dressing up (as in no jeans) and eating out.  Fancy is fun once in a while, and I wore new dress clothes that fit like a dream. I felt comfortable instead of fidgeting with clothes that make me feel icky.  I'm donating those! Saturday was baking and, my oh my, did I bake!  Five different cookies:  peanut butter, chocolate chip, magic bars, gingersnaps, and Russian tea cookies.  I blasted the holiday tunes and eased into my rhythm of baking.  Later, I watched the first Harry Potter movie and finished my third, yes third baable hat.  It's the last one as well.