Flowers and rainbows and yarn

Hello from the department of pretty-much-all-better! Henri is still stuffy but functional and the rest remain unafflicted so we're going to declare the quarantine over. Yay! As for what we've accomplished in the past two weeks, pretty much just the normal. I got to go up to Anna's for a night and I hope I didn't bore her too badly. It was a lovely and restful time and it's always fun to be with your sister! Plus, despite moving away 9 years ago, I still remembered just fine how to get everywhere.

The favors for the Ladies Tea (the theme is "He makes everything beautiful in His time, so lots of pearls and mirrors). Only 59 more to make!

Hudson is truly in love with the sheep. He makes friends with at least one each visit and then just stands there giving nice scratches and chatting with it. 

They were not impressed with the pigs, haha. Don't blame them. 

I identified with this (very pregnant) mama; head buried in hay so she couldn't hear the clamor, and scarfing down a meal. 

Even though it was a very mild winter I kept up the tradition of buying weekly flowers from Trader Joe's. They brighten the whole house up!

Very mild winter....like, summer weather winter.

As in all the trees have budded out in February...

and my day lilies, crocuses, and daffodils are all popping out

Short sleeve weather. Crazy. 

Our neighbor's family brought us a gorgeous bouquet.

Double rainbow over the pond that lasted for about 30 minutes. 

It just lasted and lasted and lasted and stayed bright...so cool

Chasing geese and balls.

More flowers up

It's nice having musical talent in the family

Newest treat. Vegan and oh so tasty.

Also an amazing treat! I know, I'm always showing food. It's a big part of my life. Also why I'm big in real life. But anyway, these were a hit with all of us.

Park play. I find we rarely go. Used to be there at least once, often twice, a day with Henri. I think I burned out on that venture. I'd much rather be on a walk or messing about in the woods. Fortunately he's fine with that. 

Getting in his caffeine fix for the day (plus all his greens, but shhh, we don't mention that to him...).

More thrift finds, the mirror will be given a new paint job and staying with me after the Tea is over.

Last week we celebrated 100 months of marriage. Steve keeps track of stuff like that :D

Waiting for Henri at school. So glad I insisted on the sunroof feature. Hudson opens it, no matter the weather, and stands on the console so he can watch what's going on. Helps too because the teachers see his head and call Henri first.

He loves this "umbrella tree" we encounter on our walks. 

Mecca. However this was a very disappointing trip. Needles completely out of stock, staff unhelpful and loud, no great finds. I did get yarn for the sweater at a pretty decent price, so we'll be content with that for now. 

Anna! Introduced her to Red Robin's burgers. Yummmmm.

Library trip tonight. These were the returns, they must hate seeing us come in (53 kids books alone, plus whatever I had). But at least my kids are reading, right?

I kept to my self appointed restriction of no knitting other than the purple sweater, but now that it's completed I have 3 different hats, the new sweater, a kids sweater, a cowl, and a sock all cast on and going. Might need to pull out some bulky tonight because everything is a bit small and I could use some instant gratification. Hoping to get in some serious progress tomorrow during Hudson's class. And that's about it for "news" :)