Updates all around

Food stuffs:

A couple of weeks ago I started our second batch of sauerkraut. My son's respite aide gave us two cabbages from her garden - one purple, one green. I was super excited to chop it all up and get it fermenting!  It looked so pretty in the jar with all the layers intermixed.  It's just about ready to start tasting and moving to a cooler environment to slow/stop the process and eat it all up!

On the crafting front:

I had to repick a pattern for that gorgeous wool I was working with. The lace pattern was much much much too involved to do with three kids in the house and only a little while a day to do it. I traded it for a less complicated lace pattern and was actually almost entirely finished with the back section when I dropped about 6 stitches in a row! AH! in a stocknit stitch I wouldn't have fussed and just fixed it, but this was yarn-overs and knit two togethers and so on....I had to take it all apart and start ALLLLLLL over again. It was a sad day.  Today, though, I'm 2/7 of the repeats to catch up to where I was.  It's actually going better than the first time through, AND I fixed a few mistakes I had made the first time, so a time consuming win, I'd say!

Resolutions:
Like in my last post I had said I'm into the final reading of the year!  It's been interesting. I for sure would not have picked the Message again for this task. It's an interesting perspective, but it is not my favourite. I've worked through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Matthew. I really love the Old Testament....okay, I really love the New too.  It's been good. I'm looking forward to getting out of the laws and rules and getting into more narrative again.

Life:

We are finally gaining some margin again. The interruption to our lives that came in the form of school has finally settled down and we're not in full out survival mode. We've had a few hiccups, like Halloween and other appointments, but it's becoming more familiar, and therefore more routine, and less likely to trigger a certain little one's anxiety.


How are all of you?

Xo,
J

Soli Deo Gloria