A LOT of Togetherness: Christmas Vacation Day One

Today it was a whopping 17 degrees outside, so we decided to hunker down and stay inside where its warm. It was the first day of the girl’s Christmas vacation, and we spent the majority of the day in my bed. I was working away on my laptop, Leila was knitting a cowl/neckwarmer for herself, and Jordan was creating handmade Christmas cards. Every now and then she would ask me how to spell something that she was writing on her little cards that were created by folding a piece of 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper folded into quarters. She has recently learned how to make ‘bubble letters,’ so she is having fun drawing the letters and then coloring them in.

Leila is having trouble sticking with the Knit 4, Purl 2 rib pattern, so she occasionally hands her knitting over to me to show her how to fix her errors like when she drops a stitch or knits where she should have purled. When Jordan sees Leila getting all of this attention with her knitting, she decided that she wants to learn how to knit. So, I pulled out a blue ball of wool and cast on 20 stitches. First I demonstrated how to o the knit stitch, and then I let her try it. She lacks Leila’s dexterity, but she’ll catch on knitting is really not that hard.

I was able to get a little bit of writing done while refereeing the squabble about not enough space on mommy’s bed. I’m enjoying having my girls all together in one place, but I’m not sure that I will survive two weeks of all of this togetherness.

I’m off to make a big pot of chili and some biscuits for dinner.

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