Winter Escape! Day 27: Stitching and Chatting

Tuesday, February 25, 2014:  Another "Bonus" day for me here in Jacksonville! Patty and Raj had to work and Mallory and Johnny were in school.  I spent the day petting Harold the Cat, doing a little shopping, knitting some more on my blue ruana, and taking a nice long walk around the condo neighborhood, a truly peaceful day.

Patty came and picked me up on the way to the babysitter's, "so we could chat some more."  Once home, Mallory retrieved her lilac stitching box from her room and wanted to stitch again.  She stitched with green the leafy area she had designed for her red strawberry.  Then she selected pink to outline her strawberry.  I showed her how to loosely gather the leftover fabric in the back of the hoop to finish her project.  She will use the purple hoop for a frame.  Mallory was quite pleased with herself for her first cross-stitch work, and Patty, Raj, and I are extremely proud of how quickly she learned.

Mallory and her first cross-stitch, a strawberry she designed herself!

The five of us enjoy a great Italian dinner.  From left, Jan, Mallory, Raj holding Johnny, and Patty.

By the time we got home, it was past Mallory and Johnny's bedtime, so Patty tucked them in.  Then, we grownups watched an action-packed sci-fi movie, "The Avengers," about super-heroes saving the planet.  Of course, my visit with Patty and her family would end too soon, but it was such fun!