Have Yourselves a Merry Little Christmas!

Come and Get It Hanzel and Gretel!

We finally got our first snow of the season yesterday.   I can't say that I really appreciate snow as much as I did when I was a kid.   Back then it was really fun to see the flakes falling and to sit in the kitchen with the radio on just praying that your school would be next in the snow-day line.   If it was, I usually scarfed down my breakfast, ran to get my winter stuff on and was out the door faster than Secretariat on coals! 

But now...not so much.  Now I see snow and I think of cold weather, shoveling the walk, fighting bone chilling wind to feed the critters, icy roads....

Fortunately for me though, I was indoors yesterday watching the snow from behind the window, in front of a toasty fire, all nice and warm.   DH was out feeding and shoveling and I was inside taking down the Thanksgiving decorations and starting to put up the Christmas decorations.  

The kids and I finished their ginger bread house (I cheated and bought a kit from Walgreens on sale for almost $2 off).  They had a blast.  

This morning I woke up and started a couple of loaves of bread to get us through the weekend, hopefully.  Then Oldest has Girl Scouts and DH and I have some boxes to clear through to make room for the holidays.   Should be a pretty busy day today.   

Random Act of Culure

Just wanted to share this one with everybody!

Middle's Thanksgiving List

In keeping with the previous post, here is Middle's Thanksgiving list:

1. I'm thankful for my toys.

2. I'm thankful for my mom and dad and Gran and Grandpa

3. And for my dog.





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Oldest's Thanksgiving List

I've decided to let each of the two older kids take some time to post what they are Thankful for this year.   In this case, Oldest has typed it out herself, for Middle's post I'll do the typing and he'll do the dictating.  

My Thanksgiving LIst:

I'm thankfull for my mom and my dog becuse he is cute. 
I"m thankfull for my dad becuse he fixed my bike.
and I'm thankful for God and Chrismas and my bruthers.

Thanksgiving

Now that we're getting closer to Thanksgiving I thought it would be prudent to really make an extra effort to be consciously aware of all that I have to be thankful for this holiday season.

1. I'm thankful for my family and my friends.  Even though my husband and I don't always see eye to eye on every little thing we're still a perfect fit for each other.   I love him for who he his and he loves me for who I am.   Everyday I learn more and more from my kids about joy, appreciating the little things, unconditional love, and imagination.   And my friends help me to realize that you don't have to be blood related to be family.  

2.I'm thankful that I live in a country where, despite some instances of discrimination, we are allowed to practice our faith in freedom without having to worry about being jailed or killed.  

3.I'm thankful for good books and warm fires.

4. I'm thankful for friendly smiles from people just passing by.

5. I'm thankful for the Word of God that helps me put everything into perspective.

6. I'm thankful for my church that helps me to help my community.  

7. I'm thankful that growing up poor has helped me to be more appreciative of what I do have, more empathetic towards those who have very little, and more aware of poverty in the US and overseas.  

8. I'm thankful, and very much in awe of the fact, that God feels humanity is worth the effort and the sacrifice.

9. I'm thankful for full baskets of yarn and plenty of fabric.

10. I'm thankful for my good health and the good health of the one's that I love.  \

Oh Sock, Why Do You Mock Me...

I started a second pair of baby socks for Youngest yesterday and was already finished with the first sock by this afternoon.   I was pretty proud of it since I had finished it so fast (usually it takes me at least two days to finish one sock..I knit slow).   I couldn't believe my luck!   I figured I must be getting better at this since I was so obviously moving much faster than usual.  

So here I was feeling rather proud of myself when I decided to try the sock on Youngest's foot.   I found that while the cuff fit perfectly, the heel was right smack in the middle of his foot.   It didn't fit, at all.   Then I realized why this project had gone so quickly for me.  You see, when it comes to knitting the instep and the toe the pattern says something like this K6, K2tog, around.   Next row, Knit.  Next row, K5, K2tog, around.  And then you continue on like that, knitting every other row.   And that's the part that I forgot.  So instead of decreasing in one row and knitting the next row, I decreased every flipping row.   So I ended up with a sock that was half the size that it was supposed to be. 

This cute little sock that was going to keep Youngest's feet toasty warm is now a Christmas tree ornament and I did a full face-palm.  Knitting fail. :p