Yarn Along

~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading (though not at the same time!), so I am joining in with Ginny of Small Things for this week's yarn along ~

Right now I am usually too tired to read and fall asleep while reading, but made those for the twins over the last week

{this moment}

A Friday ritual Inspired by SouleMama

A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember

If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see      

Biggest news since the move

I November 2002 I went to the United States of America to become an Au pair to four kids, including a pair of 15 month old twins.

12 Years later I am happy to announce that I am expecting twins myself :)

After a lot of waiting I found out on September 23rd that the pregnancy test was positive. On October 17th, the day that Lily became ill, I had my first doctors appointment and found out that I am not only pregnant but that I am expecting twins. I was thrilled, happy and scared but now I am just feeling blissfully happy.

Now I am 12 weeks pregnant and all is well so far, next time this year, I will be a mom :)

7 weeks 1 day

Tomatoes

I have not posted in a while, as I have been busy with other things. After a wet and rainy August, September started of nice enough and the garden was/is in serious need of some TLC. I have harvested what I could an now, there is not much left to harvest and weeds are growing like crazy.

So what has been going on:

• ·         I have cleaned the strawberries and planted about 100 more plants for next year
• ·         I have ripped out both the bush and climbing beans last weekend
• ·         fodder crops have been harvested and fed to the rabbits
• ·         I have a handful of carrots and onions still in the ground
• ·         Some of the kale that I already cut of started to grow again
• ·         Cucumbers didn’t grow due to the rain, so I chucked them out a few weeks ago
• ·         Blackberries are still being harvested
• ·         I cut back the fruit bushes (raspberry, gooseberry, currents)
• ·         I cleaned out the weeds in between the fruit bushes
• ·         In the process to covered more grass area into soil for next year

I still have to pull out lot’s and lot’s of weeds and prepare the garden for winter. In between that I am preserving tomatoes. I have looked forward to the tomato harvest all year. I love tomatoes and could not wait for the moment to harvest them. I am swimming in tomoatoes right now, potentially even have to many but please don’t tell anyone I said, that I might have too many.

So far I have made tomato sauce, catchup and salsa, that will last me a year. Now I am busy cookind freezing tomato soup and in between I have tomato salad for dinner about 4 times a week. Oh yeah life in tomato land is great.

Oh and I also received two buckets full of pears from my neighbor, so I canned 21 1liter jars of pears this weekend too.

{this moment}

A Friday ritual Inspired by SouleMama

A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember

 

If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see      

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Yarn Along

Joining in with Ginny of Small Things for this week's yarn along.