Category Archives: Life

thankful

It was a beautiful weekend for our Thanksgiving celebration this year. We continued our tradition of sharing our meal with four other families on the Bay and this was our year on the rotation. I was up at 6:30am to … Continue reading

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surprise party

On Saturday evening, my stitching friends and I planned a surprise potluck / stitching evening for one of our group who recently defended her PhD and is now an official Dr. I like to call her Dr. Smarty Pants. For … Continue reading

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winter project and pattern winner

I’m joining in with Jennifer from the lovely thistlebear blog who’s suggested that we try to encourage each other with our winter projects. I’ve posted a few times on Umaro which will be one that I’d like to see finished … Continue reading

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love eyes and a clarinet playing knitter

  To begin – if you are at all interested in a small Lizzy Kate cross stitch pattern that I’ll be giving away – go HERE and leave me a comment – Nicholas will choose a name out of a hat tomorrow … Continue reading

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knitty knit knit

Monday night saw Nicholas felled by a nasty stomach flu that kept him home yesterday. I’m not feeling all that great this morning so have cancelled a few things which is always a little sad. Good old back to school … Continue reading

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knitting and soup – oh fall, be still my heart.

I survived the weekend.  The pile in the bedroom is 80% diminished. It astonishes me that in order to clean up one area, I was forced to first clean up two other rather huge disaster areas to have the space … Continue reading

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a knitting crisis averted!

Last night I was happily knitting away while Sarah was in her youth orchestra rehearsal. I’ll never understand people who get impatient whilst having to wait. To have three hours to myself with a giant coffee and listening to music with … Continue reading

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one of those weeks

The first few weeks back at school are always the busiest. Sorting out my own kids and their new classes and schedules. Organizing my private teaching schedule and returning music students needs to happen which is a delicate dance of … Continue reading

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better than flowers or chocolate

John and I have been married for 19 years this October. Last weekend the day before we left, he came into the room and handed me a dowel and said, “here, this is for your turtles.” This was not prefaced … Continue reading

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yarning along at home

Well, we’re home again. The kids have gotten themselves back into school and life will soon feel like our regular routine around here which is always nice. I will admit thought, that part of my heart aways gets left behind … Continue reading

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