First Stitches of Last Child

The girls and I made a field trip to Craft 2.0 yesterday. We were tasked with choosing a little something for Mr Six. I quickly realised that six year old boys are not the target demographic of many of the stall holders. We were rescued by SuperVery who sold us a very cute Sock Owl kit. Easter Sunday is damp and dull here - perfect conditions for parking the kids on Mum's bed for some stitching, fueled by Easter chocolate.

Didn't he do well on his first stitching!

Crafty boys need their very own needle case for their supplies so Mum had to oblige.

Easter

With life as it is at the moment, my Easter crafting has been done FOR the kids, not WITH the kids.

Tiger, Tiger

My son's hair out-tigers the tiger.

School's Back!

Back into it for another year. We started as we mean to go on during our "first week back". European Masters exhibition at the museum, beach picnic, Foxton Fizz 'spiders' at a cafe by another beach, scoping out a new bike for Mum, big city library, then local library, a horse riding field trip, another beach picnic, coffee with friends, swimming. I'm not convinced I can maintain the high standard for fun and outings I set this week! It was interspersed with lashings of read alouds, cracking open brand spanking new workbooks (yes, we use them!) and stationery.

It's true!

Yes, it's true. I will knit for tattoos. Must send this to my artist to see if we can strike a deal;-)

A joyful Christmas spent with my wider family has been and gone. Now to focus on stuff for 2011. Mainly knitting plans at this stage of the year, with a cosmopolitan in hand.

Happy St Nicholas Day

I'm all about appropriating practices from other cultures to make Advent time a more intentional, reflective and considered time for my children. And who can complain about chocolate and spicy dutch biscuits to commemorate the Patron Saint of Children!

Weekend

Time to get all Christmassy up in here. The resident young man had requested some red and green socks for a while. Turns out they look like Christmas socks. All good. Except our weather is decidedly UN sock-like. So I've made them a bit longer for when it turns on us again.

Preps for Christmas are slowly underway. I'm trying to keep it all relaxed with many Margaritas, much hooping and a bit of ukuleleing.