My busy week

On Sunday the 20th, Carolina, Rory, and the kids arrived at our house. Carolina and Rory left Monday afternoon to go to SF for her surgery. Their kids did really well here, and it was good for my kids to have other kids to play with! Evan only bit Maddie once and it took him until this Thursday to do it!

My niece and nephew spent the night on Wednesday, having arrived at 7 a.m. that morning. So, for Wednesday and most of Thursday I had 7 children in my house. Not as bad as you may think, as my niece and nephew are 9 and 11 and I put them to work! :)

Carolina and Rory got here to pick up the kids around 2 on Thursday and hung around long enough for Carolina to rest a bit and Rory to load up the Jeep. She looked really good--no bruising or horrible circles under her eyes. She said she felt like she had a terrible sinus cold, though; lots of pressure and drainage. Yuck. Rory will be home with her for two weeks, so hopefully she will keep her little butt in bed. ;)

When Drew got home last night I left for an hour by myself, and went to Filati Yarns in Rocklin. Great selection, and the woman who runs the store is in my Wednesday night knitting group! I bought a beautiful purple hand-dyed, hand spun wool yarn by Manos de Uruguay. It is lovely!

Today is horse back riding lessons again, at 8 a.m. Evan napped yesterday from 4:30 p.m. until about 7. Wonderful! Not. I was up with him until 10:30. We have to leave at 7:30 this morning to make it to the stables, but the girls are looking forward to it. Good to get them outside in the cool mornings. Evan likes wandering around and trying to climb under every fence he sees. *sigh* Last week, at their first lesson, Kristyn spent almost two hours with the girls, instead of the one hour I had paid for. She is being very thorough and is quite competent.

After riding lessons today, a Ravlery friend is coming over with her two little girls for some spinning and she is going to teach me how to finish my very first REAL knitting project with double-pointed needles. I am making the Easy Peasy hat on circular needles--patern and needles from www.knitpicks.com I have a few needles and some yarn fro that website, and am addicted. Their metal needles are responsible for my beautiful hat! Love them!

I will post pics of the hat as soon as it is finished!