WEEKENDING: GRANDPARENTING

Nobody can do for little children
what grandparents do. Grandparents
sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives
of little children. 

~Alex Haley

My weekending started Friday
with a trip to pick up Emerson
for the weekend while her parents
traveled to Florida for an Army
retreat.
We have run races and dug for
dinosaur bones, baked cookies,
and completed lots of crafts, read
dozens of Christmas books,
with this one topping the list.
We sorted buttons and finally
decided on the sparkly ones
for her mom's cardigan, and
I think we used a whole tree's
worth of paper with the amount
of drawing we did.
We told silly knock, knock jokes
and laughed, laughed, laughed.
I received numerous hugs and
gave back just as many.
She is back home now and I
am sorry the weekend is over.

Joining with Amanda,

YARN ALONG

Create each day anew by
clothing yourself with heaven
and earth, bathing yourself
with wisdom and love, and
placing yourself in the heart
of Mother Nature. 

~Morihei Ueshiba

This week another

 Pebble Tank, this time

in  green cotton. I am knitting 

a patch pocket to add to the
front of the tank along with an
antler button.
Really, I just want an excuse
to use one of the buttons I have
been working on for days.
Interested in a few antler buttons
of your own? Be sure to check back
in a few days for a giveaway.  :)

My youngest son read
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
and ask if I would read it
so we could discuss a few points.
I must confess that at first I put off
reading this book, the cover isn't
that attactive, I thought the
book would be scary and not at all
what I enjoy reading, I was wrong.
The writing grabbed me on the second
page and I am  reading way past
my bedtime just because I want to
know how it all turns out.
Do you read out of your comfort zone?

I wanted to say thank you for all the
well wishes on my anniversary
yesterday, y'all are all so
sweet.

Joining with Ginny.