Homemaking Mondays: Winter Coziness

 

Hello! 
Winter has come to stay and one day there were swans 

and ducks on the lake and the next

morning it was frozen over for good.  

It has been snowing lightly for a few days now 

and the sky is a lovely soft grey. 

It adds a light chill to the edges of the windows

and I'm glad that we have plastic covering our biggest ones.

The entryway rug is now wet from 

snow being tracked in. 

Now it's a challenge to get past the entryway to the 

downstairs with dry socks.

Or in my case wet feet.  I still like to be barefoot

until it gets too cold to do so. 

No more laundry on the line so the dryer 

is working more. 

It does add a nice warmth to 

the downstairs so that is good.

It's been a time for soups 

and roast chicken dinners. 

Cozy foods.

Spice bread has been made again

and I have one more pumpkin to cook up.

With the growing darkness

I've been using candles more.

First thing in the morning I love the softness

candle light adds to the room.

At night we have some low lights in areas 

we're not using as much. 

Since the butter churn isn't functional to make butter

we added some tiny lights to it 

and it makes a fun little lamp in a previously dark corner.

I've begun to tackle more knitted socks.

I'm learning to do a german short row heal this time.

I knit while the boys do their morning lessons.

I found a cool engineering book

that highlights one hundred of the major inventions 

over time.

The boys are going to pick a few of them to study in more depth.

It's nice to be able to do things like this together.

I hope you are having a lovely day homemaking! 

Love and Prayers,

Jennifer