First Communion

Emma, Will, and Grandma Cathy (that's my wedding veil on her head, yay!)

Hard to believe we have arrived at first communion already!

She was so excited.

We studied.

Memorized prayers.

Made crafts (Emma's teacher is amazing).

Did first confession.

And had a long talk about not making sour faces after tasting the communion wine.

Welcome to the table little one!

Scenes from this week

watching the winter olympics

 

"Hey mom, can we cheer for Canada?"

 

"Hey mom, how come we can't have a ski jump into the swimming pool?"

 

"Hey mom, did you see that?  That was a level 10 trick"

 

"Hey mom, can we make more popcorn?"

 

 

 



Working on it

The kids are working on their bravery

and the mama is working on letting them be brave without a giant plastic bubble

off the cuff

I made a pair of really cute, felted slippers for my sister for Christmas.  And then I went and gave them to her without taking one single picture of the finished project.

Doh!

I liked them so much I decided I need my own pair, so I guess there is still a chance for redemption.

After pouting, stomping about, and declaring I don't even love him, Bob said I could make it up to him by knitting him a hat that looks like Magna Charge (for those of us not in the know, here's a picture)

Ummm...clearly he has a lot more faith in my skills than I do.

And I could find nothing that looked like a pattern to follow online.

Here is what I came up with.  The hat was made on one of those circular looms (only because I was trying to teach Emma how to use it).
The eyeball is crochet AND glow in the dark....you really should be doubled impressed here!
And the magnet through the head is I-cord with pipe cleaners stuffed inside it.

Not too bad for having no idea what I was doing, I'd say!

Progress

The boy has been taking advantage of these warm January days and making a lot of progress on the greenhouse.
 

We have big plans for it this spring.
 

And a certain girlchild has big plans for the playhouse that's going to be on the second story.

Our Favorite Nightmare in the Daytime

I found this hastily taken picture from last fall on the boy's phone when I killing time waiting for a new life on candy crush (did I just put that in writing....eeek!)

 

I just love the look on Bob's face.

Today in a Snapshot

The Sister-in-Law brought daffodil bulbs for the girlchild to plant last weekend.

They bring happy, growing energy to a cold January day.

And a whisper of warmer days ahead.