Monday Musing and This & That (on Tuesday)

 Well, I'm late at getting Monday's weekly goals posted, but, hey, I'm recovering from a long weekend of relaxing and eating too much. :)

Thanksgiving dinner was enjoyed by ten of us, counting the 16month old granddaughter who didn't eat too much. I had hoped to play some Trivial Pursuit together, letting each two-person team choose which edition they wanted to answer, but it just didn't happen. So after dinner and reading our Thankful Notes some of us visited, one went to her boyfriend's family gathering, some snoozed, some played video games, and some collected craft supplies from Mom to use at home.

The tablerunner is one that we made years ago, probably around 16, having each child draw something on a block and then I sewed them all together. I use it every Thanksgiving.

While various elements of dinner were in oven or crockpot and we were waiting for all to arrive, I took a calming and beautiful walk through the woods and backyard. It was abnormally warm and sunny.

Being the type of person who wants to fully and solely celebrate Thanksgiving before fully enjoying the Christmas season, I waited till Saturday to put up our Christmas tree, complete with thoughts of having a toddler granddaughter around a lot. 

Daughter H helped the tot put the star on top. Today said daughter is flying out to join a team from A Jesus Mission in Ukraine in transporting food and other supplies to war-torn areas and in supplying shelter and food for refugees. I'm proud and nervous and praying a lot.

It's been so warm that the foot or so of snow on top of the garden beds melted and I was able to harvest carrots, kale, and chard.

Sunday afternoon I often enjoy baking, so this time I made our favorite Christmas Sour Cream cookies - in the shape of a plane to commemorate H's travels, and in the shape of a mitten so she can be sure to find her way home to the Mitten State after her 10-day trip.

In the sewing corner, I finished up the apron for my exchange partner in Jenny's apron exhange challenge. It's been fun to make it and fun to get to know my partner a little.

Since she's a quilter, too, I used this quilt shop fabric that I'd been saving for  just the right thing; this was the right thing.

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This & That Goals for the Week

Homemaking

* Declutter desk area already!

* Christmas shopping 

* Renew housekeeping routine (do daily jobs more faithfully)

Homesteading

* Continue growing greens indoors

* Study "Intro to Permaculture"

Crafting

* Bind Autumn Jubilee 2021

* Take H's quilt to quilter

* Mend T&S quilt 

* Maybe start hand-quilting Autumn Jubilee 2022

Hope you're doing well on your goals!