Weekends

 

Good morning! How are you? I am doing great and the weekend was fun. My sister and my aunt celebrated birthdays this weekend. Actually a lot of my family have birthdays in January, do you have a month where all you do is celebrate a birthday?

On Saturday, my sister and my brother in law came over for a lasagna dinner along with board game night. We celebrated her birthday on that day as well. I'm hoping all this game playing is good for the brain, it's definitely good for boosting happiness. My sister and I ordered a sweater kit from Woolly Thistle and started our sweaters on Saturday. What fun!! 

My January so far has been a knitting starting frenzy, the cold crisp weather inspires me.

Yesterday, my family all met at the william penn hotel in Pittsburgh to have a brunch buffet to celebrate my aunt's birthday. It was nice to be with family and eat good food.



I have some exciting news! Our son, his wife and the two kids will be moving here somewhere in the greater Pittsburgh area within six months or so. We are thrilled that they will be close by and we will get to see the grands as much as we want. I am grateful!


How was your weekend?

Comments

  1. AsKatKnitsJanuary 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM

    Karen!! This post is full of so many good things! What a perfect weekend to celebrate birthdays! And I am so excited for your son and his family to be moving closer!

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  2. BonnyJanuary 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM

    Your celebratory dinners sound wonderful and now I want chocolate cake for breakfast. But the best news is that your son and his family will soon be nearby. That is really wonderful!

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  3. BridgetJanuary 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM

    Oh, the William Penn Hotel! So grand and so nice. Sigh.

    In our family, between October 1 and December 29, everyone but me has a birthday - that even includes in-laws! We call it the Birthday Marathon. (And everyone is rested and ready for MY birthday, so I think it works out quite nicely ... LOL)

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  4. Hena TayebJanuary 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM

    We have quite a few birthdays in January as well. Nice that you got to meet and celebrate together.

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  5. DiannaJanuary 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM

    What a fun weekend! So glad to hear the wonderful news about your son and his family!

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  6. CynthiaJanuary 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM

    That is the most exciting news ever!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. MaryJanuary 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM

    oh YAY Karen - that is the BEST NEWS!!!

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  8. JaneJanuary 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM

    What wonderful news about your family moving so near to you. What a great weekend. Enjoy your knitting. We have a "birthday season" in our family beginning in August and stretching through October.

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  9. Mary KirklandJanuary 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM

    Oh that is good news.

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  10. JoséJanuary 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM

    Such fun things ! And those sweater kits.. what beautiful yarns !

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  11. Juliann in WAJanuary 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM

    How fun to knit along with your sister. I am currently knitting the Victory Cardigan from TWT and plannig to knit a Gansey sweater soon.

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  12. MaggieJanuary 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM

    Sounds like a great weekend. Knitting along with your sister sounds like such fun and it looks like it will be a really nice sweater. So happy for you about the move!

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  13. Judy S.January 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM

    Sounds like a fun weekend! My sister is a quilter, but I do have a nearby neighbor who likes to knit. August is our big birthday/anniversary month. June is busy, too. Can't wait to see that sweater!

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  14. My Creative LifeJanuary 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM

    That sounds a lovely idea, to both be knitting the sweater kit at the same time. Birthdays: though not all in the same Month, there are 2 in July, then one in August, September and October. Good news about your family moving closer. Our sons are local to us (one still lives with us, when he's not at his girlfriends ha ha). The rest of our family live 5 hours drive away, so only see them twice a year when we drive south. My brother's family and one Auntie live in Australia, two of my cousins live in New Zealand. We mostly keep in touch through Facebook.

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