Phoning in the weekend

I started off the weekend with some wine and good friends. We all had rough(ish) weeks and needed a good time! We took this picture to send to one of our other friends who was cheersing us from a distance on vacation.

On Saturday, I did some car knitting (dishcloths are the perfect travel project) on our way up to Houghton Lake to visit some friends. I snow shoed for the first time and it's my new favorite thing! It's so good to get out on a winter's day when the weather allows it.

On Sunday, we celebrated my nephew's first birthday. He won't officially be one until Thursday, but he got to smash his cupcake (verdict: smashing is fun, eating is alright, but less fun) and got TONS of presents. His favorite thing to do was grab a box and scootch across the floor with it.

I have had these cats for 10 years and they still manage to find ways to be cuter than I ever thought possible.

How was your weekend? I hope you got to spend it with animals, activities, and children you love!

SNOW DAY weekend! (bonus post because I forgot about it until now)

Last weekend started with a snow day! This is tremendous on a couple of levels. First of all, I love snow. LOVE IT. This happens in my head every single time it snows:

And then, when I calm down, this happens:

I was made to live in Michigan, you guys. The other reason this is tremendous is that sometimes when the University where I work closes, our Dean keeps the library open so that international students and students who live on campus have a place to go. But Friday he decided not to do that. So that means: double snow day!!!!

So what's a girl to do? Hmmm... stay in her jammies, drink a bunch of coffee, knit just about everything she can, take a nap with some cats, and read some blogs.

Here are some snow day highlights from my snowday and the weekend:

I started the day with whole wheat pancakes. I ate so many of them I almost made myself sick.

Then, because it was a beautiful day outside, I had eaten way too much, and I had a sugar/coffee high going, I went outside and shoveled in this outfit

 

for an hour and a half until my driveway looked like this

Later that day, my cousin and I drove up to Frankfort for the weekend. The only picture I took the entire time I was up there was this one

It was a beautiful winter wonderland! When I came back home, I saw my super pregnant sister who's ready to have her baby just about anytime and who looks like she's just pretending to be pregnant.

 

 And then hung out with Harper.

That was last weekend. Who even knows what this weekend will bring!