Sometimes it is easy for me to reach it ; other times hard.  Once there it can be a nice play to stay.  Sometimes the stay is long and sometimes it is not.  Oh the joys of being a female with hormones and personal issues dating from a childhood with an alcoholic father and dysfunctional father.  Throw in other issues along the road that are both ( Read more... )

So, today we went to Novice (I know, it was also Challenge of the Heart or whatever, but it is so much easier just to use one word to describe/name an event sometimes).  This was to be a laid back event for us, and it was.  We were only committed to going because of youth fighting -- both to get more time in for the kids and to get Siegfried more ( Read more... )

The week leading up to Sapphire was stressful.  Many project to finish.  Luckily the most delicate one (i.e. the calligraphy on the book/scroll for Graidhne) had been finished long before and handed off to
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Went to Ponte Alto's event today.  Alle Psalite was singing in the afternoon.  So other than that we had no commitments and were just there for the socializing.  Which I guess we did, although I was cold and in an odd mood for a lot of the day so I didn't really move much from my seat.  I did get some trim put onto a tunic for me.  I'll wear it ( Read more... )

I am glad that the event is over and done with.  I am glad that it was successful.  Yes, there were some minor problems, but Siegfried (or the people delgated to certain jobs) smoothed over all the ones that I know about.

I am pleased with my children, especially the girls.  They have reached a very self- sufficient stage.  They were told where our ( Read more... )

Mid-point in the day, before 2nd court, I was told by  ( Read more... )

We work well together, Siegfried and I.  We complement each other and support each other in projects and endeavors.  When I was an autocrat, he heard me through all the support decisions, questioning emails, etc etc etc.  Now I get to do the same with him.  Now, I realize that the scale of things are a bit larger with the event he is autocratting, ( Read more... )

Tomorrow the kids go back to school and my husband goes back to work.  I get to reclaim my house.  :)

I have been a hermit the past few days, ensconced up in my bedroom sewing my little fingers off.  I'm working on Siegfried's hosen.  I handsew them, because, well, with the linen and raveling seams, and curves, and all, it is just easier.  But not ( Read more... )

painful meeting I have been to in a long time.  Perhaps forever.

Sewed Rose's jacket today.  That leaves just handsewing for this week.  Which is fine, since I need to make up a batch of my fine cakes for Watan's sale table at Holiday Faire.