Saying good-bye to Summer

I can't believe that Summer is almost over. Technically Fall doesn't begin until Sept. 22 but once September is here and school starts Summer is over. We have one last trip planned and maybe this week we will sneak back to the beach before the rainy season starts in earnest.

See - I've been posting more

So I have had a few days of playing with the blog and keeping it up to date. I often resolve to post more regularly on the blog - we shall see...
I added a link to many of the blogs of friends and family. I think that it is a very cool gadget. I really like it when I stumble upon a blog of a long lost acquaintance and get to read all about what they have been up to for the last decade or so. I recently did just that - I clicked on a random link on the Texas Andersons blog and up popped a woman from my single's ward from 20 years ago - how fun is that!

It's good to have friends...

My friend Sylvia from Grammar school is here visiting for a couple of days. We haven't seen each other in more than eight years but it is great how we are still the same. Still laughing and rolling our eyes about the same things - it is good to have friends who knew you back when...

Summer Project - Knitting

The kids have been after me to teach them how to knit for over a year now. Having no knitting experience myself - we have been struggling with hand me down needles and scraps of yarn, Finally my friend Sue suggested that I just bite the bullet and buy the good stuff at the local (rather expensive) knit shop. Let me tell you there is a difference - Having the right yarn with the right needles made the experience so much more fun. The kids have all made scarves for winter and are working on hats and mittens. Gannon and Kyra are knitting stuffed animals for Hannah's birthday.
This weekend the kids even made their own knitting needles by sanding and sharpening dowels and making funky end caps out of sculpy. I really want to find some skeins of raw wool so that we can dye it ourselves. I have read that kool-aid makes fabulous colors of yarn. If we keep this up we will be spinning and shearing our own sheep - hmmm how is that for a homeschool project...

My knitting research led me to this interesting pattern:



http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html

Yup - that's right a womb.
You know - the homeschool mom in me thought hmmmm.... might be a great way to weave in a lesson on human anatomy...

Okay - okay...

So in the last 2 weeks I have had 5 different people come up to me and out of the blue complain that I have not updated my blog in the last few months. I didn't even know that 5 people read our blog. Who knew! So okay - okay - I'll work on it - but no promises - Do you realize how many kids I have?