Tweets: 2010-02-08

Posted on | February 8, 2010 | No Comments

• Blogged: Tweets: 2010-02-01 http://kristinehensel.com/2010/02/01/tweets-2010-02-01/ #
• Cutting the ties off my IKEA pillowcases so that I don't have to tie 12 bows every time I change the sheets. Innovation! #
• Blogged: The rest of summer http://kristinehensel.com/?p=820 #
• Salad for dinner, a bike ride afterwards, and school forms all filled out. Savouring being on top of things, as it will not last. #
• Settling in for pizza and Harry Potter. #
• Rode to Hays Paddock for the 2nd time. Much easier without 4 yo in bike seat! Although still need to make it home … #

The rest of summer

Posted on | February 3, 2010 | No Comments

I got a brand new nephew! My sister Katherine has a beautiful new baby boy, Tom, a little brother for Sam who is 13 and not so new. (She is unlikely to get their socks mixed up in the laundry.)  I made a quilt for Tom in time to have it somewhere between Australia and Canada for his birth, which is pretty good on a quilting timescale.

It’s very similar to the last quilt I made, but this time I just squiggle quilted all over, which made the quilting go much more quickly. Except that after my first bobbin’s worth of quilting I turned it over and found that I’d quilted a substantial fold on the backing. I considered a large and artful label to cover it up, but couldn’t let it go and instead spent about 4 days taking out my quilting stitches. Ah well.

Also, Tilda has achieved the splits!  Me, not so much.

Tilda has been enjoying cooking a lot lately, partly thanks to our viewing of Celebrity Masterchef last year, and I’ve been cooking more too since I got a new cookbook which has resulted in quite a few tasty new dishes.  Brad was visiting in January, so Tilda got a chance to cook with Daddy. The grilled salmon (replacing trout) topped with mustard and oats wasn’t the absolute most successful recipe out of the book, but it looked good.

Tilda and Brad also spent a lot of time at the pool (and a day at the beach), not that I have any good photos of any of that. But Tilda has acquired a bit of a tan, which my 2010 self feels bad about but which my 1970s self thinks looks good. It wasn’t that noticeable until she was lined up for her first day of school beside two particularly translucent friends.

So Tilda is now in  Grade 2. “Did you have a good first day of school?” “Yep.*”  I have also learned that her new teacher, Mr. P., has a loud voice, and that Tilda has made friends with some of the grade 1 girls in her (composite) class. That’s about all I know so far.

(* This, coincidentally, is how Estella answered the same question the next day when I picked her up after her first day at kinder. Yvonne may lament our bad influence on her children’s English, but it is important that they be familiar with colloquialisms, especially those that may be more Canadian than Australian.)

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