Busy, busy, busy

it should be no surprise, this past week has been a flurry of activity, and I feel like the holidays have officially begun, here's a recap that most likely will include some incomplete sentences, and multiple grammar errors, but here it is nonetheless, and besides most of my readers are already aware of what I've been up to this week, oh well, here are some photos to give you a visual. . .

SATURDAY
It all got started on November 17th, ♥Mary's Birthday♥
Mom had her jewelry show, and I high-tailed it to Starbucks to finish clue #4










final soccer game of the season, they lost :-(
SUNDAY

Birthday brunch at Mary's, fab food as always, Andrew kicked the wine glass over, wine spilled, but glass remained unharmed.









Made a stop to Only Ewe, got this yarn, but you should already know about that!

MONDAY- work as usual, continued making progress on clue #5, cleaned up the basement, it was a total wreck, and wanted it to be presentable for company on Saturday.

TUESDAY-work and Mexican dinner at Rancho Grande for Mary's birthday, here's a picture of the dessert, that I'm not sure was supposed to be for Mary or not, but the kids enjoyed it!








then some of us went to Starbucks, some of us went home, and some went shopping. It's great being in a family where we can function with out feeling like we're joined at the hip!

WEDNESDAY- half day of working, went to Knitch, Why Knot Knit, and Knitting Emporium. I was on a quest to buy short and long #2 dpn. Found the long one's WKN, and the short one's at KE (my least favorite shop, but I was desperate!) Battled my way through Harry's and then went to Publix to finish the food shopping. Cooking until about 10:00 on Wednesday, then i woke up to this on THURSDAY




totally wrecked my walking plans, we could have used much much more-I kept checking the weather until about 8, but had to get a shower as we were having guests for breakfast. I did manage to work on the SOTS, do laundry, and other cleaning up.


Later on, some of the Moller's joined us for breakfast, Kathy and Courtney stayed at home to finish up dinner and then we went to their house for a wonderfully relaxing Thanksgiving dinner. Courtney did the table settings,








I think we have a little home maker on our hands.






After dinner Mom and I knit while Kathy went through her quilting stash, I'm "this close" to looking at quilting as a new hobby in the New Year-, I'm just thinking about it now, don't call out the guys in the white coats, yet!

FRIDAY

did my 6 miles about 6ish (i think), and headed out to Starbucks to finish working on Clue #5,while I waited for the shops in downtown Acworth to open,









loved going into the shops-


made a date with Karen to visit the shops on the 1st Friday of the month ( do this in January?) when the stores stay open late, then dinner at Henry's, Mary join us?
While I was gone Steve painted the living room, and put up the Christmas tree, it remains undecorated except for the cool Starbucks cup that I bought.


A trip to Cast on Cottage to get sock yarn, and yarn for a shawl or stole, you'll have to wait for yarn photos, also got some yarn to make a Christmas gift, the yarn is incredibly soft baby alpaca. . . later that day . .
Barry and Donna's wedding party (post-wedding reception), great food and music, and even better -it was at our neighborhood clubhouse, so no driving! Had a great time with some of the other neighbors- fun, fun

SATURDAY

A bit of absolutely unavoidable shopping, Target, Gap, Office Max, and the library, then home to get food ready for the game and the family, we had a blast despite the fact that Tech LOST! Ugh, how many more years are we going to have to deal with this???!!! Anyway, we knit, we admired Mary's latest WIP, and her shawl pin, aahed Jean's scarf she's making for a Christmas gift, oohed over Karen's hat she's making for Ron, similar to the on found on Brooklyn Tweed (cap karma posting), and had a feel of Jillian's afghan, our knitting circle is growing-exchanged names, drank wine and beer, ate, admired the new furniture, and the new mixer,

got a high-5 from Karen on that one. It was great seeing Polly and Roy before they head off to their next barge trip. Getting caught up on some blogs, deciding what I'm going to knit in the new year.

Have been thinking about several resolutions for the new year. Hard to believe another year is almost over. I'm not quite in the Christmas spirit yet, but hope to get the tree decorated on Sunday, we have church and then the Hanging of the Greens service, so hope to also fit in some work on Clue #6. Monday will be a day of shopping with Mom and then working on an "exploding box" for Aunt Gwen and Uncle David's 50th wedding anniversary.

Somehow, I have to still find time to finish 2 Christmas gifts, watch holiday shows, finish the SOTS, Mom's socks, the WOC scrapbook, excercies, bake cookies, attend parties, continue to blog, keep my house clean, laundry, work and remain calm all at the same time- egad, I don't know if I can do it . . may need some wine to help me along, glad I've restocked the wine fridge! Hope to have some holiday musings later in the week.

Gratitudes:
♥continued good health of myself and my family
♥family traditions-old and new
♥memories





TTFN