Happy Mother’s Day Weekend

May 12, 2023September 19, 2023 VickiLeave a comment

I was looking for a photo the other day and ran across this one from Mother’s Day a few years ago:

It is one of my all-time favorite photos… EVER! We were trying to recreate a photo wherein my sisters & I held my mother parallel to the floor on a Mother’s Day past. Why? I have no idea! Anyway, I only ever got one foot off the ground because we were all so weakened by laughter… which I think you can see!

We won’t all be together this Mother’s Day, but we’ll have our MOTHES DAY soon enough! I’m actually driving to O’Hare on Sunday to pick up Kate! Tonight is her last night in the Edinburgh flat, she turns over the keys tomorrow and will stay at an airport hotel on Saturday night, making the schlepping of luggage a bit easier on Sunday morning (hello, helpful taxi driver!).

I hope you all have a very happy Mother’s Day!

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Happy Mother’s Day Weekend

May 12, 2023 Vicki8 Comments

I was looking for a photo the other day and ran across this one from Mother's Day a few years ago:

It is one of my all-time favorite photos… EVER! We were trying to recreate a photo wherein my sisters & I held my mother parallel to the floor on a Mother's Day past. Why? I have no idea! Anyway, I only ever got one foot off the ground because we were all so weakened by laughter… which I think you can see!

We won't all be together this Mother's Day, but we'll have our MOTHES DAY soon enough! I'm actually driving to O'Hare on Sunday to pick up Kate! Tonight is her last night in the Edinburgh flat, she turns over the keys tomorrow and will stay at an airport hotel on Saturday night, making the schlepping of luggage a bit easier on Sunday morning (hello, helpful taxi driver!).

I hope you all have a very happy Mother's Day!

Unraveled Wednesday / Knit & Read

Unraveled Wednesday: Framing

May 10, 2023May 22, 2025 Vicki10 Comments

I’m joining Kat & the Unravelers today for Unraveled Wednesday!

KNITTING:

One of these things is not like the others… but it’s all looking a little better (to me, anyway).

A knitted blanket featuring a geometric pattern of squares in shades of blue and white, partially draped on a surface. A pair of sandals is visible in the foreground.

The wide border (wider than any other I’ve knit) has tamed the wonkiness of that last square a bit.

It’s still a little wonky & weird, far from perfect, but it’s everything… my to Mack.

I still can’t believe he’s graduating high school in a couple of weeks.

READING:

I’ve begun Trespasses on audio. Not usually a fan of a narrator doing “voices,” I’m enjoying the Irish voices/accents quite a bit! I haven’t cracked any of the actual books on my nightstand (and elsewhere) since finishing WWWWT but I’m sure it won’t be long before I do.

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Thursday

May 4, 2023 Vicki6 Comments

This post showed up on our local FB community page the other day and I laughed out loud, then shared it with all my family. (Name removed to protect the offender.)

This inattention & misspelling has the bane of my genealogical research for this family… especially when doing just a general google search… also "mothes," of the insect variety.

On the other hand, we may have ourselves a new family holiday!

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Unraveled Wednesday

May 3, 2023 Vicki6 Comments

KNITTING:

I'm not 100% pleased and not sure that I can "fix" it… so there may very well be some unraveling happening here!

The blanket made the trip to Mexico and I knit on that last square a lot… and ripped & reknit & rinse & repeat.

It's really wonky and I'm not sure that it'll straighten out when I pick up & knit the border. I'll be doing that next, right around that corner, and I'll know soon enough.

If I do end up ripping all that out and reknitting it (again) (and it's quite likely), I'll be doing it much differently.

READING:

Audible's customer service has not come through with a fix for Forty Acres Deep, and I sure hope they do; meanwhile, I downloaded Trespasses for the book club. I finished What We Wish Were True when we were on "vacation," and I'm planning a walk down to the library later today to pick up a book I'd put on hold.

It's finally a sort-of nice day!!