New Beads!

This weekend was so quiet for me.  The kids were gone from Saturday afternoon through Monday afternoon.  My honeys was up in Minnesota visiting his Mom.  It was just me and the hounds and the cats and the ferret and the hamster and two tanks of fish.

I spent Saturday and Sunday evenings on the torch, as well as much of Monday morning.  Here are the spoils from Sat/Sun.  The beads from Monday are soaking in the kitchen sink, but there are many more lentils waiting to be cleaned out.  It felt soooo good to sit down at the torch and create again.  Watching two months slide by without firing it up once was hard.  I don't like being that busy.

Besides torching, I cleaned out both fish tanks and moved one from the kitchen back to the girl child's room.  We'll see if she's grown up enough now to keep her hands out of the tank because her fish want to visit Owen's fish.  I gave a thorough cleaning to all four cat boxes.  That was exciting.  I framed and hung up pictures.  I saw Kung Fu Panda 2 with the kids and my Mom.  I took Little Horse to Petsmart to get out of the house.  I started reading a book suggested by a friend that is helping solidify a current course of action within our family.  And I thought about both of my grandfathers and how they served in World War II overseas and wondered about what they saw and experienced.  How they felt leaving their families behind as they fought to protect the freedoms of their country and others.  I stayed up way late and took advantage of being able to sleep in.  I enjoyed my freedom with no schedule and found myself eating breakfast at 2pm and dinner after 10pm. 

And.  I missed my honeys.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  I can't believe it's almost Wednesday already.  This week is screaming by me.  I'm trying to get it in gear so I can do a shop update on Friday evening.