Laowai

Just a quiet week so far. The school year is quickly coming to an end. No school this Thursday and Friday so we are taking a train to southern Switzerland and then on to Verona, Italy. We’ll stay a couple nights and then watch the Giro d’Italia on Sunday. The Giro is like the Tour de France of Italy. We’ll get to watch the last stage – a time trial right in the middle of the city. The last time I was in Verona was on our honeymoon. It was our first stop and it was my very first trip to Europe. 

Here are some photos of the girls and what they’ve been doing:

Brian took Bea to a ropes course on a cloudy day a while back. She loves doing ropes courses! Someday we should visit this one when the weather is not crummy.

Claire had a sleepover with her best buds:

We still like the Octonauts – Bea made a set of finger puppet Octonauts:

Brian was up early and got this sunrise photo:

And we had a little hike around our town’s woods and to a playground:

It’s been a pretty dreary Spring – but I’m content gazing at my new quilt fabrics. I can’t get enough of the colors even the scraps and bits of thread are lovely to me.

I’ve been spending all my extra time in the sewing room and yesterday I finished all the cutting. Now on to the sewing- starting with lots of satisfying half square triangles.

When you come to my house you can tell I’m working on a quilt because I track little bits of string all over. Sorry family – I must sew! I’ll get around to vacuuming eventually.