Three on Thursday: Considering monogamy

What a week it’s been! It’s been full of surprises, and not really in a great way for me. But… we’re chugging along.

Joining with Carole today for Three on Thursday – so here is my list of three things from this week:

One
I ordered a beautiful bright green dress for my daughter from Primary this week, with the intention of it being a St. Patrick’s Day dress that will have a longer life than one with shamrocks on it. I ordered short sleeves so it can transition into spring, and I had the somewhat crazy idea that I could finish her Chains cardigan in time for her to wear it over her new dress at a St. Patrick’s themed piano lesson event she is going to on March 15. I initially dismissed this idea immediately – no way would I finish it by then – the rows are so long! And then I thought, if I stopped working on all my other projects, it just might be feasible. But…

Two
I already have two active projects in other crafts, the Halloween SAL cross stitch and a Girl Scouts quilt. I’m enjoying both of them, but splitting my time between these and knitting is not leaving much time for me to finish either of them.

Three
For my birthday, I asked my mom to buy me the supplies to make the St. Patrick’s Day Countdown and Easter Countdown from The Sugar House Shop. (You may remember I’ve already made an advent calendar and a Valentine’s countdown from her shop. I’ve also made a birthday countdown of hers… but I just realized I never blogged it!) They arrived this week… and I’m also itching to try to start and finish the St. Patrick’s Day countdown before the beginning of March. Which again, I could do, if I quit working on everything else!

Ah… if I was good at being project monogamous, things would get done! I’m willing to give it a go, I just can’t decide which one I should go for. What do you think?

Weekend snaps

We had a really lovely weekend. It seems that the weather agreed with the calendar for once, and it truly felt like the beginning of fall – i.e. I could stand to be outside without sweating buckets. 🙂

Saturday was our first Girl Scout outing. I am a new leader for my daughter’s Daisy Troop. As a complete newbie to Girl Scouts (I never did it when I was young), it’s a bit of a learning curve. But I’m *really* enjoying planning all the meetings and scheduling outings. It’s actually fun! I often shy away from a lot of outside commitments (I think there’s a bit of Rebel in me – if you’ve read Gretchen Rubin’s The Four Tendencies), but it’s not bothering me at all to already have a bunch of meetings and weekend trips on the schedule. I think it’s because I’m secretly all about covering my daughter in patches, because if I was a Girl Scout (well, I guess technically I am now, but I don’t have a cool Daisy vest), I would want EVERY patch under the sun. Speaking of which, my daughter got her first fun patch this weekend. 

Proud Daisy Scout

Sunday was a gorgeous day, and we went to a local park to take a little walk, and BK also enjoyed some time on the playground equipment. 

The sky was a beautiful blue, the sun was out, and the pond was peaceful. 

We saw lots of birds while we were on our walk. 

I loved seeing all the flowers. It was like a last breath of summer. We came home refreshed and feeling full of warm (but not too warm) sunshine. We finished off the night with some s’mores!

pre-squish 🙂

I bought a little fire pit at Target last year that uses a camping gas tank. I bought it exclusively to use for s’mores. 🙂 We previously had a wood burning fire pit, and we never really wanted to stay out there as long as it took the log to fully burn out. With this, we can stick it on for however long we want to be out – a long time or short – and turn it back off again. I love it. It’s a game changer. And after we finished our s’mores we enjoyed sitting out with the flame on low and listening to the night creatures. It was the perfect end to a lovely weekend! Hope you all had a nice weekend, too!