Weekending

Joining Amanda from The Habit of Being for weekending.

Have you ever been driving and suddenly arrived at your destination and have no real memory how on earth you go there and you think to yourself... good lord, how did this happen?
The weekend sort of felt like that. I remember it starting and then BAM we are at the end of it and I have no real idea what happened to the whole darn thing. How did we get to 12:33 AM Monday morning? Where on earth did the weekend go?
I knitted some, got frustrated and frogged a project that took most of the weekend. Watched a few very, very  bad disaster movies, started drinking coffee again. Saturday we went and helped out the Mother in Law shut down her cooler, put away her fan collection, and cover her cooler vents. The kids watched movies and loaded up on enough processed food to keep them going all day and well into the night. We moved over to my parents house for a couple hours to celebrate my niece's 9th birthday with some cake ad ice cream. The cousins played and laughed and were loud and crazy and had to be sent outside, which they enjoyed immensely.
Then suddenly it was 2 Pm on Sunday afternoon and we picked up Sis for her weekly Sunday visit. And that time seemed to fly by and it was time for her and D to head home and it was time to get the kidlet's to bed, and now here I am...
Another long and fast week ahead. Some how the days seem to take FOREVER to get through, but the weeks fly by. Thanksgiving is less than 2 weeks away and then suddenly it is head long into advent, Yule and Christmas. And then a few weeks after that we will be welcoming baby number 7 into the world. I just feel so unready for it all. Is there someway to just slow it all down by like 1/2??

* Gratitude Sunday *

 Joining Taryn from Wooly Moss Roots for Gratitude Sunday. Sunday's heartfelt tradition. A time to slow down, to reflect, to be grateful. A list of gratitudes...

~ the steampunk exhibit at the library
~ the kids crafting together
~ days at the park
~ great phone conversations with friends
~ the temperature dropping below 80 degrees
~ sappy Christmas movies
~ cookie butter from Trader Joe's
~ very good friends
~ coffee
~ the wonderful stranger who paid for my coffee at Starbuck's on Friday, I so needed that coffee and it was such a sweet surprise that I actually started crying

{ This Moment }

Joining Amanda from Soulemama for This Moment. A single photograph from the week, a moment I wish to pause, savor, and remember.

Things and Stuffs

making lanterns

wee bit of fall color in our mystery tree

climbing rope

painting

more painting

Little bit from the week so far...

Knitting

Joining Ginny from Small Things for Yarn Along and Nicole from Frontier Dreams for KCKO...

St Nicholas Day hats

gown for baby

fluffy mail

I have been slowly working on a gown for our soon to be wee babe. I just sort of altered the Puerperium Cardi by closing it off after 4 buttons and then knitting endless rounds of stockinette stitch. I need it to be maybe 24 inches long or so and it is taking forever. But I was very much inspired by the lovely baby knits that Ginny did that I just had to figure out how to make a gown. I wish the camera did justice to the lovely shade of greenish blue, it really looks nothing like the picture.
Realizing that we were well into November and I needed to come up with some St. Nick gifts for the kids, I decided that this year good old St Nick would be bringing the kids hats (along with chocolates and peppermint sticks). So, I just needed to get busy knitting. I am using the same type of yarn for each hat, just different colorways. The Swish Tonal by Knitpicks is lovely. I picked out six colors and I have so much left over after each hat that I am trying to come up with something fun to do with all the extra yarn. Maybe each child will get a pair of fingerless mitts in their stocking come Yule morning.
Since I had to order yarn, I went a bit nuts. Some of the yarn I know I had a project in mind when I ordered it but for the life of me I can not remember what those projects are! This wee baby is using up all my brain cells! (haha) Considering a bunch of it is sock yarn I am guessing I was planning on knitting socks... I guess I have some sock knitting to start at some point.

* Gratitude Sunday *

Joining Taryn from Wooly Moss Roots for gratitude Sunday. A Sunday tradition. A time to slow down, to reflect, to be grateful. A list of gratitudes.

~ Beautiful sunsets
~ Nice cool mornings, sweater mornings
~ Hot cocoa
~ Pumpkin baked into almost everything
~ Easy, quick, nourishing dinners
~ Fiona still taking naps occasionally
~ Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered, salted almonds
~ Autumnal picture books in a basket by the bed to read every night to the kiddies
~ Rowan's humming while he draws
~ Family dinners around the table
~ Fairy lights around the back porch and the front door
~ Fiona mastering the slide at the park
~ Watching the new hawk in the neighborhood in the mornings (the chickens are not too happy about it though)
~ Making glittery lanterns for Martinmas

sleepy girl

Archery

Cae and Sagan are both taking archery at the moment. It is really amazing to watch them find this new passion and do well in a class. Both have been homeschooled forever, never having gone to school. Sagan tends to shy away from any sort of structured learning, but after watching his brother in the first class he decided that he would give it a shot. And he is loving it. They both are. It is really amazing to watch them get the hang of this pretty complicated skill.

sagan aiming

cae aiming