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  • A Monday Disguised as a Tuesday

    Leaky toilet

    What we thought was a leak under the sink that turned out to be the two year old dumping out the cats water bowl

    3 kids sick with a stomach bug

    Extra laundry

    An exploded house toy wise

    No motivation to do anything about it.

    Tomorrow is a new day right?

  • A Hat

     

    A super fast knit. You can find the pattern here.

  • Gratitude

     

    Today I am grateful for......

    All the snow we have had. My husband plows in the winter and it is what puts food on the table and pays the bills.

    Healthy children.

    Soft yarn to knit with.

    A warm house.

    Laughter

    Sunshine.

  • The theme at our house this week was laundry and beating it back to the depths from which it came. We were drowning and nearly naked and that is just not cool. Well, actually it would have been very cool since our temps are in the single digits these days. Anyway...I worked hard on all of this

     

    And then I took our 12yo to the laundry mat to help her reset her laundry. It was the quickest way to get a fresh start.

    This is what 8loads of laundry looks like compacted into 3 containers.

    She wants one of these at our house

    All done!

    We had a lot of fun. While we waited for everything to be done we played a card game and then some bananagrams. We laughed, we joked, we discussed some serious things. She shared stuff, I shared stuff. Over laundry our friendship grew. We could have done all the laundry at home but we would have missed out on the time together. I'm very glad we went.

  • This Moment

    Inspired by Soulemama

    {this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

     


  • Keep on Keeping On

    "But in parenting, even what we thought and did yesterday that "worked out well" then, is not necessarily going to help today. We have to stay very much in the present moment to sense what might be required. And when our own inner resources are depleted, we have to have effective and healthy ways to replenish them, to restore ourselves, without it being at the expense of our children."

    Everyday Blessings The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Yarn Along

    Inspired by Ginny at Small Things

    Yesterday I cast on and frogged the hat pattern I mentioned in last weeks yarn along post. Apparently that yarn did not want to be that hat. So today I think I have found an alternative pattern.
    I'll keep you posted on how that goes.
    The former hat had cables in it and while I have worked with cables before apparently my brain did not remember it as well as I thought. So, thankfully I had my stitch'n bitch book to refer to. I was lucky enough to receive it as a birthday gift from my friend Carol.
    My other read, that arrived yesterday from my friend Dana, is Everyday Blessings
    I wanted to borrow it from someone after finding a link to their list of "12 exercises for Mindful Parenting"; Dana was nice enough to gift me with a copy. :) Not pictured is the third book in the Percy Jackson series. I finished the second book. I'm really enjoying reading these along with my 12yo. It is fun to discuss books with the child who used to cry "Not chapter books" when she was younger and I was reading to her older sister. She was never forced to listen...she just did not like the absence of pictures. And if she did not like chapter books still that would be fine...but I'm glad she does.

    Happy Wednesday!

  • I could have said no

    but I didn't. Instead, I moved the couches closer together and they had a blast.

    "Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"--Samuel Johnson

  • This Moment

    This Moment

    Inspired by Soulemama

  • Yarn Along

    While reading at my friend Pam's blog I learned about the

    Yarn Along at Small Things

    So here at this late hour is my photo. I am reading the Percy Jackson series with my oldest two girls. The scarf is the Harry Potter scarf I linked to in the "On the needles" post. Not much longer and I will be shipping it off to it's new owner.