reyes, a concert and some knits

This year for Reyes, we repeated our Tapas Party open house and had lots of friends over to sample Daddy's delicious savoury tapas, some of Mummy's sweet holiday goodies and basically eat, drink and be merry. Preferring to live in the moment for once, I decided not to grab my camera, so there are no pictures. Only memories. And that's just fine because they're good ones :)

The Three Kings did manage to visit our household again this year though. And, as family tradition would have it, they brought us lots of great books... to add to our already happy -sometimes chocolate-stained kids :)

Another of our outings over the Christmas season was to the Helix to see the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland play the score to the short movie Peter and the Wolf. Last year we saw the RTE Concert Orchestra play the score to The Wizard of Oz and we love the experience of watching cinema with a live orchestra playing. This time was even more special because it was the National Youth Orchestra... and the boys loved seeing how such young people can play together so wonderfully. They also played a series of other classic pieces... including the Vienna Waltz.

Something this Mummy Jamrobber associates with winter and cosy evenings at home is knitting. I took it up a couple of years ago and these are some of the things I made this year, having progressed on from the beginner's scarves and ponchos I made last year. This year I made three hats, three scarves and a pair of wrist-warmers! Also (not pictured here) I knitted a mohair cabled baby blanket, a tiny baby hat, a cabled tanktop for Lorcan and a stripey jumper for Malachy!! I wonder what I'll progress on to next year?!

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*Bonus photo of Locan looking cute in the lobby of the cinema the day we went to see Madagascar 2.

"Let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby... "
Sorry... Private joke.