Mrs. Beaumont's Class (with some knitting thrown in)

Christmas vacation went fast again as usual. I can't say that this was the greatest vacation, either. The holiday and gifts were good, but my husband's grandfather passed away on Christmas Day. It was very unexpected and we had just visited him on Christmas Eve. We were shocked to say the least. We still took the kids to Great Wolf Lodge last week, which was fun. We stayed two nights. We drove up to Marblehead but found everything closed for the winter. We did get out to look at the Lighthouse and to take a walk around the shore. It was a little windy, but otherwise the weather wasn't too bad. The kids and I wanted to take Bob to see Mystery Hill, but it was closed, too. We went last summer and I don't care if it is a hoax. I felt motion sick and got a headache from being in the house there. Supposedly, it's a spot where there's no gravity or something. There are several places like it in the U.S. Water seems to run uphill and balls go uphill. I don't know what it is, but it's freaky. There's a similar place in California called The Mystery Spot, for which Wikipedia explains the "absence of gravity."

We drove past A Yarn Shop, which I had seen over the summer when we were here. It was closed the first time we passed it. Luckily, the second time the owner was putting the open sign out. Hooray! We stopped and I bought a book, Not Just More Socks, five balls of Crystal Palace Taos in Two Gray Hills, and one skein of Schaefer Anne in a pinky, purply, fuschia colorway. I can't find a name for it. It was a big splurge at $24 for a skein. It feels very soft. I can't wait to knit with it.

On Friday we went to Grandad's funeral. It was a nice service.

Since then, we've been recovering from all the activities. And I've been working on grading papers. I think I'm just about caught up. Hope so. We go back to school tomorrow. How time flies... See you all in the morning.