Catching up

Yikes! Guess this is what happens when I actually have to work...

Saturday, January 22: Ahh... bliss!

Sunday, January 23: We were responsible for bringing Sunday supper to church tonight. As usual, we overestimated the food we'd need. This is fried chicken leftovers for the forseeable future.

Monday, January 24: Progress on the DNA scarf!

Tuesday, January 25: My current book: The Help. Excellent.

Wednesday, January 26: Rebecca practicing, and happily!

Thursday, January 27: Talent show practice. Act is Camp Hoop: The Hula Jam. Kathryn makes it look completely effortless.

Friday, January 28: Oops. Oh well, 27 days in a row isn't bad.

A work week's worth of pictures

Except Monday was a holiday.

The best thing to do on a holiday? Take an afternoon nap. So I did. And when I woke, I came downstairs to find this.



This is the spot where the Christmas tree WAS. John and the kids put everything away while I dozed. What a treat to not have to pack all that stuff away!

On Tuesday, I made pulled pork. It was good. So good that I couldn't wait (aka: forgot) to take a picture before eating. So here's a picture of the dirty Dutch oven instead.



On Wednesday, I walked into my office, looked at the picture that's been on my whiteboard for close to two years, and decided a photograph of this masterpiece was way overdue.



No, I did not provide input for any of the content.

On Thursday, it snowed.



3 inches, maybe? Two more days of school cancelled for the kids. Oh, joy.
I wish it would REALLY snow. Like 6-8 inches, minimum. If we're going to have to deal with all this inconvenience, it might as well be for SOMETHING.

When we were in Singapore the Christmas before last, Becca was fascinated with this waving cats that we saw in stores all the time. I think the cats were supposed to be bringing good luck, or something. Dear Aunt Wee Lim remembered Becca's obsession, and sent her one this week!

So here's lucky cat, waving goodbye to a long week.

A musical weekend for Kathryn

Today she sang "I have a dream" in church in honor of MLK Jr.'s birthday.



This was after she spent 5 hours on Friday and 9.5 hours yesterday singing at the EVSC Honors choir festival. She was one of six kids from her school picked to be in the choir. They put on a fantastic concert at the end of the festival.

Guess it's time to take down the tree

and the rest of the Christmas stuff. We'll probably stall on that long enough to me to take pictures of the newest decorations.

Like this beauty that Rebecca made:

On to project #5

This one had been hibernating for a while; it's not really a mindless, TV watching-conducive knit. But it's so much fun!

I have a little more than two patten repeats done at this point. "Project" 5 is to do two more repeats. I have to break the projects into smaller pieces, because there's no way I could get a whole sweater done in a week. And keep my job, that is.

Someday I'll get pictures of project #1 and 3 up. Becca's scarf on 1/1 was project #2, because I was all gung-ho and started early).

Project #4

is done!

This has been languishing in my closet for 3-4 months, with only the button band to finish and the ends to weave in. I decided that the original button band was too wide, so I unraveled half of it. Then I was too lazy to unravel more so I could make buttonholes, so there aren't any buttons.

I bent the rules of 'take a picture' because my arms aren't long enough to take a decent picture of myself.

Well, ok. Here's one attempt of taking a picture of myself.

January 10-11

January 11: Snow day! We lasted about 5 minutes outside before we decided it was too cold. No, I didn't make a snow angel.



January 10: First day of classes, and my desk shows it. I think I was more or less ready by the time I actually had to teach...