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I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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Knitting on the sly

By on January 11, 2012 in knitting, Yarn Along

Yarning along this week again with Ginny from Small Things. This week getting any knitting done (or anything other than cleaning or organizing) was difficult. Poppa is really keeping me busy doing more of the things I should be doing when I am knitting, sewing or getting crafty. I think in another 2 weeks I will have the cleanest house in town lol.

However, the knitting must get done hee hee, so I have been knitting on the sly! Any minute I can get I pull out my little project and get what I can done.

I am working on this little football beanie I found on Rav. It was for a very dear friend of mine who is having a baby soon and I wanted to surprise her. Then as I was reaching the part where the decreases start when I found out she is having a girl. Oh I am so shtoopid! I must have brain damage or something. So now I am too far into it to stop and am really looking forward to seeing it finished. I also learned a little more kntting terminology with this pattern. It turns out that SSK means slip slip knit (I can hear you ladies laughing mind you! Remember I am a new knitter) SO I SSK’ed and learned a new way to decrease, yippee!! I am also happy to say I made it from yarn in my stash to continue with my stash bashing resolution this year.

Speaking of stash bashing, won’t you join me tomorrow, Thursday, for this weeks Stash Bash? Just blog about a project you made or finished from your stash or post a picture to Flickr then come back to tomorrows post and link up. In case you missed the details last week you can find them here.

This week, I am planning meals from The Organic Family Cookbook again and reading to the kids from one of their favorite book series of my childhood. Have you ever heard of or read The Happy Hollisters series. When I was little I would not get my homework done because I would get sucked into these books. Their family had so much fun and I guess looking back I always wanted to have a big family just like the book (though they only have 5 kids lol). Throughout the years I have found many of the books from the series and my kids can never get enough. The adventures I went on with the Hollisters in my childhood….oh to be a kid again!

Hope to see you tomorrow!

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Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

By on January 9, 2012 in Friends

 

 

Goodness,  it has been a week again since I have blogged…I have a good excuse.  Poppa is here 24/7 now since he is looking for a new job and he is keeping me so busy. Did I ever tell you that he is a super clean freak?  Yeah, I am not!  We have been cleaning this house night and day…or at least it seems like it to me and I have had almost no time to do anything else but I have snuck in some evenings to get some knitting done (I will post what I have been working on tomorrow) and of course I have had a few stash bashing projects going (join me Thursday for the Stash Bash).  We also had to buy a new computer which is kind of like buying a car…no fun!  We did buy a new one but I think I am taking it back because it is slow even though it is supposed to a great computer.  NOT!
Anyhoo, onto what I wanted to share with you.
My husband has an ability to forge friendships that last.  I can’t think of a single person whom I went to school with (with the exception of my cousins) that I am still friends with.  When I married my husband, he came with a handful of friends who have until this day remained a very intimate part of our family.  They are sometimes closer to us than our real family is (barring our parents who are irreplaceable)…they are the family we chose for ourselves.

One of those friends is Uncle Ron.  He has been friends with Poppa since their first day of military.  They actually met at the airport on the way to boot camp!  Uncle Ron is Veronica’s Godfather, he is the reason we named her that and the reason her nickname is Ronnie.  Our kids love Ron and his wife and since they had kids our children now have extra cousins.  Get togethers are always fun so we were so excited when they invited us to spend New Years day with them.  We packed up the van and traveled a quick 3 hours to be there.  Coincidentally, Uncle Ron’s is one of the few places we will let the kids sleep over (we decided when we started having babies that sleep overs were not going to happen, we are protective of our children and unapologetic about it) and when we announced that the boys could stay the night, they were jubilant.

Good friends, friends with whom you can just laugh and not worry about what they may or may not be thinking of you, are what makes life sweet.  We were only able to spend one day (which is hard to do because we are all so busy and we know it may be a while until we see each other again) but are already looking forward to get together again sooner than later.  It was a wonderful way to start a new year.

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