A little preview of next year

 I usually only work three days a week. The main reason is because that way i'm only stuck in our tiny town three days. A mom that I get on really well with asked if there was any chance I could have her girlies an extra day. I told her I go to Kadina to do my shopping but there more then welcome to join me. I've taken them twice now and its a lot of fun. It doesn't feel like a work day because we get to go do fun stuff. We visit my family and friends, eat at cafes (ahem spill milkshakes down their front:), play at the big library, take home borrowed books and toys, opp shop, play at the playground and generally have a fun girls day out

Its so nice to be in Kadina with them, thinking ahead to next year where this will be our normal. You will find us here in this park eating picnics like I remember from my childhood. Today we crunched through autumn leaves, watched the birds, visited Kylie and Jayden

yarn along

 woo hoo, three posts in one day, that,s got to be a record for me right?!  Lately I haven't been getting on here much so when I finally do I have lots of photos to share. Things are busy at the moment. I went to a hens night on the weekend and have another this weekend and then two weddings, both of which I'm a brides maid in, within a month. A few weeks later were going on holiday to Queensland oh and in between all the excitement I'll go to the fertility specialist and naturopath. Its all going to be lots of fun and I have a feeling I'm going to blink and a whole crazy busy month or two will be gone. Which will make me a month or two closer to moving house:)

In the meantime, maybe ill get some knitting done. My work in progress is a flora hat. I started it a few weeks ago. Its one of my first tries at intarsia and I was almost finished when I tried it on. I'd pulled the stitches too tight and it sort of looked slightly bunched up. I thought it might be OK  but when I showed it to Benny he said "oh that looks cool, is it army print?" hmm, not quite the look I was going for. So now I kind of want to re do it but I'm worried it will look like army print again.
Maybe it can sit a little longer and I can knit this instead?

 A while back I knitted a few vanilla soakers for the one day baby.

 The white one is finished and the pink stripe one needs leg cuffs still.

Tonight I've been looking back on my blog. For quite a while now I've been unmotivated with it thinking that I'm just posting same old with not much new to share. As I looked back I enjoyed it so much and realized that my 'same old' really is nice to look back on. It might seem like same old when I've just done it but to look back on my favorite everyday moments really is a picture of my life. Even if I forget to take photos when out doing fun things like I usually do. I look back on my every day normal and I see the happiness I make for myself in simple ways. It inspires me to plant more seeds, knit more, sew more. I love my every day normal.
Its been so nice to look back on our holidays, anniversary's  fun day care moments, old houses. The every day things I have forgotten about.
I think my very favorite thing looking back on my blog is re reading my honest posts on the now 4 year journey of trying to get pregnant. It brings a calmness to my soul to re read them. Validating all the thoughts and feelings I've felt and written down, It some how heals the hurt a little more each time and makes me feel strength. It reminds me that were still trying, even though after all this time it sort of feels like I've moved on and just gotten used to pregnancy and parenthood being something that other people get to experience and I don't.
That sounds so miserable but honestly its not in a sad way, just in a protecting myself from hurt way. My naturopath speaks so positively about me getting pregnant and I try to still talk like I feel its possible but after all this time it sounds kind of silly to me to. I guess I think of myself as infertile until proven otherwise. It's not that I don't believe it can happen, it really is just wanting to be at peace with what is until it does.
I was re reading all the comments on those posts too. Each of you that wrote kind and reassuring comments, every time time I re look at those posts, I re read them and they feel like little angels of hope dancing into the sky. It really does make me feel so much better to have all those kind words wishing my baby would come

day care room tour

I mentioned in one of my recent posts that now that we are going to be moving in the next 10 months everything in our little home seems to be just getting to the stage that I've tried all sorts of ways of re arranging things just so and gotten them just right. The day care room is no exception. I've recently shifted things around and also come across this great kitchen dresser that works much better then the desk that id used as a temporary solution to needing some where to put children's bags. It takes up less floor space yet stores much more, perfect.

I always try to have just a few toys out as its less at cleanup time and play seems to be more productive. Its nice to have some where in the room that I can store things, I think it probably makes out play things look a bit less sparse to the parents:) There is always plenty to do out but I know it doesn't look like much so this is a nice solution.

Another thing that avoids clean up and frustration on my part is having the books in a basket rather than the shelf. I rather them on the shelf but they kept getting dumped on the floor buy the 1 year olds. 

 And there is always wool to be stored too. When I saw the led light glass doors my initial thought was how pretty my wool would look in them but I managed to restrain myself to just fill one section.

 It would also look pretty and be really handy with the doors taken off, open shelves for books and easy access

In the one of the draws I found these plans and an original recipt. It was hand made a few years before I was born from recycled materials. I have to say this opportunity to learn a little bit of its history made me pretty happy!

Its nice to have to cupboards to put things up high. I often put a silk on the craft cupboard handle and it always gets noticed and inspires play

 here's the other side of the room, a play kitchen, pictures displayed on the sleep room door and a basket of silks

 the table is now in front of the sliding doors (the fixed side) instead of in the middle of the room. It frees up so much more play space and makes me wonder why I didn't do this before! the pot on the table has peppermint sprouted seeds about 1.5" tall and a few bulbs that were already in the pot. It will be a suprise what they come up as or I might scroll back on the blog to see if I shared it last year, hmmm..
I cant wait for fresh peppermint tea!

 Here's the hanging pot that hangs outside the doors that Angus planted the other week. He stays late on Tuesdays so this was a nice thing for him to do in the late afternoon after the others went home. His nasturtium seeds have sprouted as have two of the bulbs. Its great that it is in front of the table now, we look at it and chat about its progress as we eat or craft

 out in the garden there are quite a few tomatoes. the pumpkin vine is at least 6 meters in each direction but still no pumpkins. Autumn peas have sprouted as have comfrey, borrage, some bulbs and some spinach. I'm excited about gardening these cooler months to come, lots to look forward to

how to have fun after summer rain

Last week we had a rainy day, a little preview of the Autumn to come. The next day it was back to hot weather again.These little girlies love water so with this big puddle out the front of my house I knew we were in for a fun day. I dressed them in spare clothes (thankyou opp shop) and sent them out with a few containers from the recycling. They were well occupied until we had to go in for lunch and nap

 ps, this water looks a bit yuck, its just because of the tree we were under for shade, its leaves colour the water quite potently. Makes me want to have a go at using them for a wool dye