All Change

So a week ago, I wanted to write and tell you about the crazy night we’d had. In fact I had so many other things going on too…bubbling up and running over…and wanted to let them all blog out of me. Then it got a little hard to get to the PC. And then I […]

Hats

Way back in November I cast on a hat for Kazuo for the winter. I am such a slowpoke knitter, esp when I only do a row or two once or twice a week. But some lovely peaceful girl-alone nights in the past couple of weeks finally led to the end of the hat. Just […]

Balloons…

This past weekend I felt very much like a slow learner. It seems that babies, crowds, and even the best-laid plans just do not mix. Perhaps one day I will button down and accept these immutable laws. I had thought we were doing rather well, we NEVER leave the house after 6pm these days, and […]

Whew

Some time ago I realised that many of my earlier blog posts were (a) a bit long and (b) a bit rambly… that I should really try and restrict myself to one topic per post. Since then I have tried. But some weekends are just too busy and give me too much to think about […]

Tour of Missouri

Monday was Labour Day, a holiday here in the US (like in many developed nations) that celebrates the worth of the worker… though we are not too sure just how many Americans would know that… in any case, it was a lovely day to finish up a rather variable long weekend. We set off for […]

Crafty Sewing Week

After burbling on about how annoying it is that the pool closes this coming weekend while the sunny hot weather will probably go on and on (last year it went into late October) and bleating about how summer is NOT over etc etc… the weather took a turn on the weekend and the mornings and […]

…and Hand Picked

In our continued programme of finding lovely outdoor things to do on the weekends while the sun still shines, we set out early yesterday morning to pick the last of the summer blackberries and some Encore Peaches that have just come onstream at Wind Ridge Farm near Wentzville, about 45min drive away. It was the […]

Walking the ‘Hood

This week we received our new Phil & Ted’s Metro Backpack in the post (well, not the new model we had ordered, but that is another story)… just in time. Kazuo has been rapidly expanding and so our evening walks around the neighbourhood in the witching hour between dinner and bedtime had been rather a […]

Dealing with the Heat

We have been extraordinarily lucky so far this summer. St Louis is notorious for the sticky high humidity of its long hot summers and last year I toughed out the morning sickness in the air con of our apartment and harboured nostalgia for the calm sunny days of my Nelson adolescence. Thus far, it has […]

Summery Saturday Afternoon

Outside it is an evil 35degC and we are struggling to keep the house cool enough for Kazuo. Shame really, as this is the kind of weather I would enjoy if it was just me… trips to the pool, getting hot and then loving the feeling when you could cool down. But our wee guy […]