I've been overwelmed and tired for a couple of weeks now, which resulted in a few colds (I'm still fighting the last one). The busy summer vacation is having some nasty after-effects , but probably another cause is my not so healthy snacking lately (connected to being tired) and too little sleep here and there. Luckily, sometimes these things can work for the good as well. It has made me rethink my schedule and have serious conversations with Frank, myself and last but not least God. Frank thinks it would be a good idea to give up my allotment, because it takes up a lot of time. Well, he is right about that, but I'm having a hard time getting my mind and heart to give up the home-grown vegetables, especially in these strange times. I'm still praying on this one.
I did however take a good look at my study programme and I did some remodelling there as well. First of all I will do one less course next block (around Christmas), so I will have some time to rest and do some nice Christmas projects. Furthermore, I have stretched the Celtic programme and incorporated English courses as well (first I was planning to finish Celtic first and than see if I still wanted to do English) , so if I do it right I should have two bachelor degrees at the end of four years of university. It is a realistic planning however and it will leave me time to do other things, which are important to me (and my family), like grinding wheat and baking our bread, cooking from scratch most of the time, knitting, crocheting, sewing and hopefully my vegetable garden.

I have started knitting and crocheting again, I just love the soothing movements. I've crocheted a big triangular shawl, made to a pattern found here: old-fashioned triangle shawl. I knitted a triangular shawl a few years ago and I love it, I use it daily at the moment. On my knitting needles I have the first part of a poncho almost finished. Cassandra wants me to crochet a poncho for her. I just have to find the right yarn, she would like beige or darkbrown, and then I will make her one as a Christmas gift. I have some other Christmas gifts planned as well, but I won't go into them, since I want to keep them secret.  You'll get to see them in due time.

blessings, Ellen

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