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We’ve had a busy few days, traveling, baking, wrapping…unwrapping… So I for one am looking forward to some calm family time for the next day or two! Carrie says “Merry Christmas” too!
Dear Carolyn, Have I ever told you what a good kid you are? I feel like a lot of our days consist of me counting to three, repeatedly, but really, you’re very good the vast majority of the time. I don’t think I catch you in the act of being good often enough, but I’m [...]
One of the things about sending Carrie to a church preschool is that there is no attempt at being politically correct about the holidays. In fact, they held a Christmas pageant with costumes and everything. It was one of the cutest and funniest things I’ve ever seen. All the kids were in the three-year-old classes, [...]
When I was a kid, my grandparents used to take me to Midtown Plaza to ride the monorail and see Santa. It was really magical. And then as an adult I discovered the tuba Christmas event held in front of the giant Christmas tree. Well, this year is the last year that either of those [...]
So we did finally find a Carrie-sized rake, and we spent a good portion of today raking the lawn. Well, there was probably at least as much jumping into leaf piles as raking, but at least the lawn is mostly de-leafed at this point. (There are still quite a few leaves on some of our [...]
Dear Carolyn, I’ve been thinking long and hard about whether to keep writing these letters now that you’re three. Will you really appreciate them when you’re older, or will you just be embarrassed that I put all this stuff about you on my blog? But I just can’t seem to let it go yet…maybe when [...]
Carolyn helped us get ready for Thanksgiving, by making some pumpkin pies. While Great-Grandpa looked on, she stirred and mixed, and made a very lovely pie: Final verdict? Delicious!
Yesterday we had an all-day needle felting workshop at the shop. I had so much fun, I couldn’t stop making things! We did “paintings” with fiber: And 3-d objects: And then I tried to make an ornament (mine is the one that is decidedly not ornament-sized, the other one is one the instructor gave me): [...]
Do you remember the autumn-colored merino I bought at the Hemlock fiber festival? Well, first I turned it into this: And then, I knit it into this: This is the Peace Shawl, and it was almost the perfect size for the amount of yarn I had spun. I had to work 6 fewer rows before [...]
OK, I need to preface this by saying that I adore Christmas. The day after Thanksgiving, I will be breaking out the Christmas music and starting to decorate the house. But today I am feeling pretty malevolent towards the whole Christmas thing… See, I need a rake. Specifically, a kid-sized rake that Carrie can use [...]