Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on}

The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with, too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture or two and share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
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Well, what do you know, I got distracted from the cute beekeepers hat yet again. This time for an adorable bonnet that showed up on my Flickr page. I had to cast on straight away. Luckily I had some leftover yarn in my stash that was perfect for it. I can't wait to finish it and put it on Baby F. Of course, now the weather has jumped up into the high 70s but he'll still need a good hat for air conditioned buildings, right? I have to justify it somehow...

What are you working on? Happy creating!

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Sunday, April 3, 2016

A weekend of firsts

first time first first first K working on her unicycle balance K working on her unicycle balance distracted IMG_5508 My little guy got distracted by the flowers and brought me some. ice skating ice skating ice skating rink We had quite the big weekend full of firsts. Little L moved on up from his years of Skuut biking to a pedal bike. Like his sisters before him, he took to it pretty easily. We had to convince him to change out of his Bogs and into some softer soled shoes, though. He had a hard time feeling the pedals and his feet would slip off of them. He gets a bit frustrated that he can't go as fast on his pedal bike as he can on his Skuut but with a little bit of persistence I know he'll persevere.

The day after he learned how to ride his pedal bike, we went ice skating with friends for a birthday celebration. All three of my older children had a blast (Baby F was a bit chilly). K learned how to ice skate back in Portland with her first grade class, but C and Little L had never tried it before. On a side note: I felt bad about C not knowing, I was adamant about her learning in first grade as well but time just got away from us. Oh well, we did actually finish first grade in the fall so I guess I wasn't too far behind.  Kevin went out on the ice with the children since I was happily preoccupied with our tiny baby. C and Little L were both a bit nervous so Kevin found them ice walkers to help them learn their balance. C became braver and was head over heels with ice skating after that. In fact she loves it so much she asked for ice skating lessons for her birthday and an ice skating party. I hope we can somehow pull it off for her. She deserves something special of her very own.


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