Life's a Stitch

I thought retirement meant a more relaxed pace to accomplish the activities of daily life and extra time for the things you love to do. Problem is, my to-do list hasn’t retired and continues to grow daily, hence the title of this post. So here I am sneaking in a smidgen of blog time. 

An indication of busy-ness is the fact that’s it’s been a two pavlova month. One for Easter and the other, C’s standing request for his birthday cake. Two things you can count on in this family, Boston Cream Pie on my birthday and pavlova for his. The Easter one was huge. 

Here’s the recipe, so easy for such a decadent dessert.

Easter was packed with family time including four sessions of geocaching with my current recruit, grandson Rye.

Here’s Parker, demonstrating his three year old personality.

One more little travel journal painting, a combination of two photos I took in Suzhou, the Venice of China. Look carefully at the laundry on the left wall. It’s Chinese tradition, if this year on the Chinese Zodiac is the same as your birth year, you’re supposed to wear red underwear or socks throughout the year for good luck. One of our tour guides was born in the year of the pig, so we gifted him with autographed red undies. 

And I just finished a watercolour brush stroke class, where we learned to paint flowers to embellish cards and envelopes. It was calligraphy in watercolour. Not my usual style, but lots of fun and an opportunity to develop brush control.

In between the bills, taxes and insurance forms, there’s still plenty of time for the fun stuff.