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| One of the last days |
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| Books I was reading |
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| Finished Grannies |
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| Little guy helping me read my new book |
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| Progress on the Monochrome Sunny Spread |
Busy would accurately describe my last few weeks of school. Collecting the final papers, grading exams, cleaning up my classroom, not to mention everything happening at home. My husband is on the final leg of his schooling this year, which has him doing 36 hours of clinicals plus 2 shifts at work. So all three of us are adjusting to a new schedule. Luckily, my husband brilliantly suggested that I do no school work until I've been done for at least 2 weeks. So crafting and cooking and cleaning and reading new books are the only things for me to do. Plus baby wrangling. All fun stuff. Still very busy. But onto my crafting and reading.
Reading:
I jumped on the bandwagon and read Marie Kondo's book The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up. Other than her new-age/zen ideas about talking to your possessions, I felt like she had some solidly applicable advice. This blog gives a great review on keeping one's faith in perspective while still using some of Kondo's advice. Overall, the idea of joy that Kondo talks about really struck me, and that's what I'm apply the most to my life.
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus was a book I had heard about while listening to Catholic radio on the drive home from work. This was the second time I had checked it out from the library, and I still didn't finish it. The perspective of the author is fascinating, and I'm hoping I can get it again-- third time's the charm, right?
My new novel is The Secret Daughter of the Tsar, and I haven't started it yet. Hope to get a start today.
Crafts:
Working on a granny square swap for the next few weeks, so pics of my grannies will be popping up here and there.
Making a monochrome gray "Sunny Spread" for a gift for a friend, and am just starting to square up the circles.
Also, I'm the crazy one who is thinking ahead to Christmas already, and I have 5 bigger projects tumbling around in my brain for gifts. A new nephew arrived in early April, and he never got a gift from me, and there's another new one coming mid-November, so baby blankets for sure. :)
Happy life, busy life.
What are you all up to?
Ginny's yarn along link up
I hope you thoroughly enjoy your break from school work! I love the colors of the squares pictured here. What a nice gift that will be.
ReplyDeleteGreat granny squares! Thanks for the link to the review on the Kondo book. I want to read it, too.
ReplyDeleteI like your granny squares, sounds like a fun project
ReplyDeleteLove all the grannies, hope you have a good rest!
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