Friday: puzzle night

Puzzle night tonight! It was by far the fastest puzzle we've ever put together. It was 750 pieces, but the three of us still finished it in about two hours. So we just played a few games and talked and had dessert to fill up the remainder of the evening.

Thursday: a house dream

Ben and I, living in the house I grew up in, noticed a water stain on the first floor ceiling. Oh bother. That's never a good sign. After a while we go upstairs to look for the problem. We still don't see it, so we check the attic.

Wow! Our attic is huge! And it is kind of shaped like a swimming pool; after going through the trap door we walked down an incline. The floor is nicely finished with wood planks. Interesting. We start exploring this part of the house that we didn't realize that we had.

Our attic leads into what appears to be a small town. People have taken up residence in our rooms that we didn't know we had. It was surprising. Pleasantly surprising.

We finally make it outside, and discover the cause of the leak. The whole roof is about to collapse. It is run-down and in terrible shape. How did we not notice that before?

Wednesday: oatmeal

I had oatmeal for lunch today. I also put some cranberries in it. And I put it in a mug, which works much better than a bowl because it is more compact.

The main reason I had oatmeal is that we don't have lunch meat in the house and I didn't feel like peanut butter. It is also very easy to put together in the morning.

Phew. Aren't you glad you know that about my day now? I guess it was kind of a slow day for interesting things to happen. Someone else fixed the WIPs though, so that was awesome.

Tuesday: Operations and hospitals

This evening for small group we went to Target and packed some boxes for Operation Christmas Child. It was fun. Our girl got some pens, colored pencils, paper, jewelery, a purse, socks, a hat, some gloves, and some candy. The boy got some matchbox cars, legos, a baseball, and candy. They also both got some hygiene items. It's always fun seeing what deals you can find (that are still small enough to fit in the box.)

Then I found out another friend is in the hospital from a car accident. :( She's not sure how bad it is yet, but she's been texting me a little bit so that's good.

Monday: the beginning of the week

Oh, I'm tired tonight. Sometimes I feel like I'm always tired. I'm not - but sometimes it just feels that way.

The days went pretty well today...and rather quickly which is always a plus.

Night.

Sunday: circles on squares

I bought my new fabric today. I still have some other things I need to finish first though.

This is the pattern. I doubt I'll be doing the stars though...I'm thinking either nothing or another little square instead.
Here's the fabric. While I love picking out fabric, Sunday near Christmas is the wrong time to be doing it.

Saturday: hello

Today was rather low key. I continued to work on getting the chore list finished, but with a three day weekend instead of a two day weekend it is much easier. I also did quite a bit of reading and made some future quilting decisions.

I also washed the first quilt I made. I was a little nervous about it because the workmanship isn't great. Also, I used a red pen to trace out the blocks in the beginning and didn't cut off all the red (although I tried), so I was a little afraid that it would stain through. Luckily though, at first glance it seems ok. It still needs some touch-up in a few places where the blocks are coming apart, but that happened before the washer.