Jacob's board shorts, tomato and trip to the museum

I've just made two pairs of board shorts for Jacob. The other week when Jacob was here for the day we went out to Spotlight and looked through all their pattern books to find a pattern for some board shorts. After we found a pattern we went and purchased some material. Jacob chose two pieces of material he liked and then last Tuesday we sewed a pair. I finished the second pair today ready to show Jacob when he comes in the morning.

I haven't sewed any clothing, apart from some minor repairs and taking up hems on jeans for a long time. It was really nice being able to make Jacob some shorts and having him choose the material and then helping me sew them up. I also got to use my new sewing machine for the first time. I brought a new Brother Sewing machine at the Christmas sales. It's only a basic model but is ideal for the amount of sewing I do.

It's been really nice looking after Jacob over the holidays. Most days we stayed at home usually doing a bit of gardening, cooking, feeding the worms or doing jobs down the street. On the 13th January I took Jacob to the Melbourne Museum for the day catching the train into the city. It was a fun day seeing all the different exhibits as well as seeing the 'Walking with Whales' circus and an Imax movie called 'Fly Me to the Moon'.





Last Tuesday Jacob picked his very first tomato from the tomato plant he planted, watered and looked after. There's a few tomatoes on the bush but so far only one has ripened enough to pick. Jacob was really proud of his tomato an couldn't wait to taste it so we ended up having a very early lunch. Thankfully after caring for the tomato plant and watching the tomato ripen Jacob decided that it tasted pretty good.



Tomorrow is the last day that I will be looking after Jacob for the holidays as he'll be starting preschool soon. I'll really miss not having Jake over come every week.

Gardening and a day with Jacob

In amongst all my business with work and study I enjoyed spending a day with Jacob last Friday. We spent the morning doing a few jobs down the street and then picking up some plants that had been given to me by a lady. We planted the cuttings into my new garden bed which I started last week and also planted out my bowl of baby lettuce, a tomato plant and seeds of parsley and basil.

When Jake visits he always helps me with the worm farm. He's a great help tipping in all the food scraps and helps bottle the worm wee.

In my new garden bed I have planted out the hellebores I purchased on eBay. I purchased 5 colored hellebores - red, yellow, white and black and also some ruffled lady hellebores. they are growing really well so hopefully next winter I will have some new colors in my garden.

I'm really enjoy having time with Jake and getting to know him more. He's a good little boy with a great sense of humour. Every now and then he'll do something that reminds me of Philip when he was the same age. When I look at Jacob I think how lucky I am to have been able to spend time with his father, Philip at the the same age and now 30 years later to be spending time with his son. There are not many aunties that get the opportunity to have so much time with their nieces and nephews growing up and then with great nieces and nephews.

I am looking after Jacob during the Christmas holidays so I am really looking forward to having the extra time to spend with him. I am also really looking forward to spending some time with my great nieces, Sarah, Hannah and Olivia when they visit in October. I've nearly finished Sarah and Hannah's cardigans so I am hoping to be able to give them their cardigans when they visit.