I Love Weekends!!

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I am so glad the weekend is here!!  I need a break from work!!  I have so much to do at home too.  I decided though on Sunday, I am only going to relax and do what I want to do!!

Tonight I will be sewing away!  I have the skirt to Megan's costume to make.  There are also alot of pieces to this part of the costume and all the pleating to do.  It will be beautiful when it is done though!  After the skirt the only thing left for me to do is some last minute fittings and then it will be complete.

Tomorrow John and I will stop by the new house and check the weekly progress.  Then we will head up to Jenny, Kevin and Owen's house.  We are bringing up our porch plants from the apartment to stay at Jenny's until the house is done.  We already have a ton of plants at Megan's.  The plants that are mostly going to Jenny's are my hostas.  I do however, have a huge palm tree that must really like where we live now because it has 3 huge fronds opening to make the huge palm tree even bigger!! We probably will have to use my company's truck to move that plant!

Sunday is suppose to be a really gorgeous day out.  63 degrees is suppose to be the high.  I'm thinking I can sit out on the apartment porch in my comfy wicker chair and knit or read or both!  I can drink my hot tea and just sit there and relax.  I'm sure John will join me too!  I do have to pack some things up, but I think Saturday late afternoon might be a good day for that because Sunday is going to be my rest day for a change!!  I'm not even going knitting with my knitting friends!!  They are all up in the mountains at a retreat anyway (I decided not to go-there is just too much going on in my life right now).

Hope y'all have a great weekend!!

Neighbors

Last night John and I had dinner with our neighbors-they live in the apartment above us.  We had breakfast with them one other time.  It was just a really nice and enjoyable time!  They are building a house also, but won't be in their house until December 20th if they are lucky.  They are building in a different town with a different builder than we are.  They have 2 grown children and we have 2 grown children.  They were original from PA and we were originally from northwestern NJ not far from PA.  We like alot of the same things too!  It just really makes you appreciate some of your neighbors and people you meet in your life.

Saturday John and I had stopped by the new house with some friends to check it out.  We found out the HVAC system, plumbing, water line from the street and sewer line to the septic had been installed.  When we were all done we were standing in our new front yard and a young woman pulled up in her SUV.  She asked if we were the new owners and we said yes.  She introduced herself as our new neighbor.  She and her husband have a 15 month old little boy named Jack.  He is only 5 days younger than Owen!  Owen will have a nice little friend to play with when he visits us!  She seemed very nice and is not liking apartment life either while she waits for her house.  As we were all standing around talking another lady walked up and introduced herself as our neighbor but from the other side of the neighborhood.  She was older and we also had alot in common.  She knits, does a little garden and watches all the birds in the neighborhood building nests, feeding their young, etc., etc.

I told John between Saturday and last night it just makes me smile that there are so many wonderful people out there.  Kind of makes you feel or warm and fuzzy!!

Another Great Weekend!!

John and I had another great weekend!  Friday night after work Owen came home with me and spent a few hours with John and I.  We had a blast!!  He was so funny.  I do have to admit he really tired us out though!

Then Saturday we went to breakfast with our friends and showed them the new house.  They used to live in Mint Hill.  They really liked the lot and house. We then went to Kohl's (I had to exchange some shoes).  We got home and I started sewing on Meg's Halloween costume for a little while.  We then went to Best Buy and John got an iphone and we went grocery shopping.  Came home and made tacos for dinner and I went back to sewing and then relaxed watching TV with John.

Today we woke up later than during the week.  Then I made my apple crisp recipe because Megan and Ken were coming over for dinner.  I went to knit with my friends for a few hours.  Came home made dressing stuffed flank steak, fresh carrots, bread and then the apple crisp with vanilla bean ice cream!  We had a really nice time visiting with Ken and Megan.

We are now sitting here waiting for 9:00 to come so we can see the Season Premier of Revenge!!  We love that show!  Hope it is a good one!

As usual the weekend went by way to quickly with tons of things to do, but it was a great one!!  Hope everyone had a great weekend too!

Season Change Cold

I woke up on Sunday morning very early with a terrible sore throat.  As the day progressed I started with the rest of the season change cold.  I have been going to work, but not doing much of anything when I get home.  Lots of honey and tea for me!  I'll be back when I feel better.

Busy but wonderful weekend!

Now that it is Sunday night and I'm relaxing on the couch, I realised what a busy, busy weekend we had!!  My weekend started on Friday.  I took the day off and went to the Southern Women's Show with one of my knitting friends, Julie.  We had a great day and  a wonderful lunch outside at a nice little restaurant in Mint Hill.

Saturday morning we had breakfast with our neighbors upstairs.  They are also building a new house.  We had breakfast at Skillets in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte.  It was a really nice time.  Then John and I left them and went over to the new house.  John hadn't been there all week.  They have gotten alot done this week:  windows, doors, roof is complete and plumbing is done.  Here is a photo from Saturday:

After we left the new house we headed up to Jenny and Kevin's house to pick up Owen for the afternoon.  Jenny and Kevin had some things they needed to get done and we kept Owen until Jenny came to pick him up around 5:30.  Owen kept Papa really busy while Nana was sewing Auntie Meg's Halloween costume.  I of course, took breaks to play with Owen (and to give Papa breaks).  That little boy really ran Papa ragged but he loved every minute of it!!

Owen was teasing us by acting like he was going to put the checker in his mouth.  As soon as he got it close to his mouth he would take it away!  He loves playing games!

 Owen loves to stack the checkers up and then knock them down.

Owen was getting tired (as you can see he needed his Nuk) and some cuddling with Nana while she was sewing.  He just sat on my lap like a good little boy and watching the sewing machine.  He was a good little boy! Jenny and Owen had dinner with John and I.  Jenny and I also went to Michael's and Target before dinner.

Today I woke up with a cold!  I had been feeling really good until today!  I slept late and then got up to take my shower and go knit with 2 other knitting friends at a coffee house called Madison's.  We thought we would try some where different.  It was really nice and relaxing!  Then I came home and sewed both of the sleeves on Megan's outer coat of her costume.  John and I had dinner and now I'm just chilling out and resting.

As you can see it was a really busy weekend, but a good one!

The Southern Women's Show

(This clip was via the southernshows.com website)

Today I took off from work and went with my friend, Julie to the Southern Women's Show.  What a great day we had!!  There were so many things to see and of course, buy at the Show.  I only bought some handmade hand cream, some lavendar Scentsy-like cubes for my Scentsy burner and some lemon honey for my tea.  I was a good girl!  After being at the show for quite a few hours we went back to Mint Hill and we had a very late lunch at a restaurant called Hawthorne's.  I had a grilled chicken sandwich with fresh mozarella, red peppers and basil-yummy!!!  We ate outside and we were the only ones out there!  It was a gorgeous day here in the Carolinas!

Before we went to the Show we stopped at the new house because Julie wanted to see it.  The plumbers were there putting in the plumbing stubs for the sinks, showers and toilets.  The roof is all done and they will start on the siding next week!

Julie and I were tired when 5:00 rolled around but we had an awesome day!!  Hope y'all had a great day too!

Autumn is Here

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Today while driving to work I see the change in the leaves.  I live in Charlotte, NC and Autumn comes a little later here usually, but I really think because we had such a mild winter last year it has put everything about 1 month ahead of the usual time nature changes into another season.  I love Autumn here!  The air lets go of the dreaded summer humidity, the cool air swooshes in, walking after work begins again, sitting on the porch reading in the cool evening air is an option, baking commences once again and natures changes are just so beautiful.  I love baking anything with apples in the Autumn.  The smell of cinnamon and apples baking is just so wonderful!!

I hope everyone is enjoying the changes!  I'm going to leave you today with a southern phrase, "Happy Fall, Y'all!!"