Merry Christmas

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I hope that each of you had a wonderful Christmas Day.  For kiddo and I it was a good day, although did not feel like Christmas.  This is the first time in 18 years that my husband has not been present for Christmas.  Over the years with his work I am used to celebrating birthdays (mine, kiddo and his), anniversaries etc on my own, but not Christmas so this seemed weird.  We did decorate the tree in a box and put some decorations on it.  Kiddo opened some of his presents that I brought for him, but the rest are at home to open at home when daddy gets home.  

After breakfast we went for a walk.  The scenery was beautiful this morning:

After lunch we went in to Banff.  Walked around a bit in the cold and then went to the Banff Springs for Hot Chocolate.

Then we decided to go to the Banff Hot Springs.  The outdoor temp was super cold, but the water was 39 degrees Celsius and super cozy.  So did not want to leave.

After dinner we came back to the resort and I finished the scarf that I have been working on for my son`s teacher:

I will block it when I get home and I think I will sew her a gift bag to go with this.  The yarn is my August subscription to Sock Yarn Club.  I used the Cash Silk Fern Scarf for this pattern.  I think by now I have this pattern memorized ☺

Tomorrow is probably going to be a hang out at the resort day and see what I can get accomplished.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Busy, Busy, Busy...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

My Grandma Sadie used this expression about her life all the time.  The older I get though I am not truly sure she understood the concept of it in the manner that I do.

This morning my son and I started the day off by getting up and getting to Santa's Breakfast for 0900 hours.  We made it, although we had to eat at the preschoolers table by the time we got our food!  My son thought it was hilarious that his mom could fit at the preschoolers table ☺

Then we waited in line to meet Santa.  Santa was awesome.  My son has not got a list this year as to what he wants for Christmas so when asked by Santa what he wants he replied "stuff".  Santa was awesome and let him know that Santa has "stuff".  ☺

After that we headed off to try and get my son a hair cut.  Thankfully we were out and about early enough in the morning that his favorite hair stylist was able to squeeze him in.

Afterwards we stopped at Bulk Barn and picked up some random goodies which included these sprinkles that I put on our hot chocolate this evening after walking the dog:

Then it was back to Millennium Place for skating lessons:

After skating  headed off to his Christmas piano recital of which he played his own composition of Deck the Halls.  He was very proud of himself for accomplishing this as was I.

Then it was finally time for lunch.  We used a Groupon for poutine at My Fries.  Yummy as always.

Next up we stopped by Sweet Convenience to buy candy with (you guessed it) another Groupon I had!!!

Lastly we stopped by River City Yarns and picked up some wonderful woolly goodies.

Coming home I decided that maybe I should do something with all of the craft chaos that I have going on right now.  "Sew" here is what I accomplished:

I sewed the buttons onto my Fingerless Mittens (still a silly concept I think) that was one set of mittens from my October box of Yarn Crush.  I did have to make these mittens a little smaller than the pattern not because my hands are small but because although I knit to gauge there was not enough yarn to complete both of them as long as they were supposed to be.  Now I have 4 left over buttons for another project I guess.

Now it's off to bed as skiing starts tomorrow, and there is laundry and baking for lunches this week and groceries and house cleaning and ......................................

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy