Knitting

The name of this pattern is Frost Flowers and Leaves and it's from the "Gathering of Lace" book that I have. I gave this one to my Mom for her to wear during this holiday season.

It's Alpaca with a twist...70% Baby Alpaca and 30% Silk.

I've also done some socks lately, finished a little bolero for my niece and have a sweater on the needles right now!

~Rachel

November

John is putting in lots of extra time at work, both there and working from home. The work at home is often in his robe, at the comfort of the dining room table and at times with the company of Tiger Lily! She is apparantly a very good editor as she is often very attentive to his e-mails.

Here is our young man with his brand new driver's license! It has been a big relief to me to have him driving himself to and from school for his early morning French class as well as to drop off his brother at Guitar lessons or just to run to the local store or library for errands. NICE!

We spent the weekend of the 22nd & 23rd in "Beantown". Brian had classes at MIT for Splash weekend. Loads of fun for him and the other teens which we carpooled down with. Some were strictly for fun such as Rugby or Duct Tape Design...but others were more serious about solar power and LEDs. Lots of fun at a wonderful event.



Andrew and I spent time at the Museum of Fine Arts and then over at "Old Ironsides." The USS Constitution is going through some repairs so she is not currently rigged. Here he is at the bow of the ship and enjoying the trip tremendously. Mom was a bit cold with the temperature holding at 28 and wind chill bringing it to zero or below quite often. The Constituion's museum was a warm and welcome place to be!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

~Rachel

Activites!

Our fall has been filled with activities. Here I am coaching soccer...I'm the tallish kid in blue. It was too cold for my coach's tee alone. Coach French did better with the cold than I did. My "little guy" is there in his white hoodie...he might also have had an aversion to the cold too! Or he could just be stylin' in his sweatshirt.
We played 7 weekends with practices on Saturdays and games on Sunday afternoons.


The boys also had another year of their Shakespeare Theater group classes this fall, Guitar & Piano, Kindermusik, Book Club, Swim Lessons, Magazine Club, Milton Homeschooler's Meetings, Driver's Ed and French at the local High School. I'm very familiar with the "Mom's Taxi" game now.

Here is a little fun we had on the last day of that session of swim. And some more "serious" parts of the lessons too.

The boys have been growing and learning and playing. I just can't believe how fast time is passing!

~Rachel

Fall

Well, here they are and growing! Fall went by very fast and we're not quite sure who's fault it is that we haven't been blogging. Any ideas?

So it's eveyone's fault!

We've been ultra busy! I'll try to put up a couple more photos today. I've been kicked out of blogger several times by my finicky computer so I'm keeping these short!

Here's hoping your busy fall has been as much fun as ours.

~Rachel