Archive for May, 2011
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The River Wild
On Memorial Day we decided to go down to our favourite swimming spot to cool off a bit. Well it being a river, and with all the rain we have had lately (42 days out of the last 60!) the river was WILD!
Needless to say it made me nervous. The children, and the husband were kept in check, and near the edge where the current was slowed by a bend in the river’s edge.
But the three big tipsy guys who decided to brave the current learned a good lesson.. at least I hope they did. All three were swept downstream. One got out pretty quickly, one we lost sight of and learned later that he got out fine.
In fact all three did.
One good thing.. it did spark and impromptu lesson on what to do if swept downstream. So now the children at least have heard the basics.. who knows if they will ever need to use that knowledge. I know I did once.
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Memorial Day
I have this button from a uniform long ago.
I don’t know what war..
But it doesn’t matter. What matters is it is long separated from it’s owner who probably would be appalled at the dingy condition it is in. He probably spent a long time shining this button.
I don’t know if the owner died in combat, or lived to tell his stories of war. I don’t know his name, rank or serial number.
But still I can remember.
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Silly Sunday!
We slept in, we lazed around. We ate cereal for lunch. I started another knitting project.. I think I have 4 in progress now!
Silly. I know. But I was feeling restless. And needed another mindless knit knit knit project.
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A Little Family Fun!
Now with a weekend like I had I am reporting after the fact.. but I will still have a blog post for every day!!
Saturday brought a trip to Pennsylvania for a baby shower! So I got to see my beautiful sister in law for a bit!!
And we got to hang out with my wonderful mother in law (yep get jealous.. I got a good one) and the world’s cutest nephews! Yep! Brian came along too with the boys, but they were shoo’ed away (don’t worry we gave em’ cake if they wanted it!)
After my one nephew was feeling better (yep we had a sick one for a while) we all went to Red Lobster and had a great meal together. There is always loads of fun when you take 7 kids to a restaurant.. though.. I guess only the 4 little boys count in that category officially at this point!
I can’t wait to meet my little niece I am knitting for her of course! I get to knit some more cute little girl stuff!! Woot!!
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Finished Friday.. so much to share so little time!
Well.. the main thing that is finished this Friday is my husband’s business trip. It went well.. till the end. A VERY late flight cancelation.. led to an all nighter that included a VERY expensive rental car and long drive home, rather than the 1 1/2 hour straight flight that was originally planned..
So for now while I have quite a few projects to share they will have to wait.! Sorry!
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Bookish Thursday Story Time
No Knitting books tonight, been reading the magic treehouse books to the boys. They are really enjoying them. Thanks Grandma!
Paying the bills…
Coming April 13th
