So here I am after more than a week of not posting at all – things have been super busy, and I kept saying to myself “self, tomorrow I will post something amazing” and then didn’t…because stuff and things.  Then I *just* read over on the Yarn Harlot her post about the French Lesson (long story short – it’s hard to get out of a self-made hole).  So I’m going to just post something – anything.

What’s. Been happening?  Lots and lots – as I mentioned before my parents were visiting.  I use past tense since they are now currently in Belgium to spend American Thanksgiving with my sister and her family and celebrate my nephew’s 9^th birthday up there.  Then Mum will come back here next week for a bit more Swiss enjoyment (cold and grey – but man, have we got hot cheese!) while my stepfather flies back to the US to meet up with his sister and go on a Caribbean cruise.  (Side note: my mom is like me – the thought of being on a tin can in the middle of the water in hot weather with thousands of other people is stuff of nightmares)

In any case – last week was also my daughter’s 3^rd birthday!  I made tons of cupcakes for the Kita (daycare) and cakes (yes, plural) for a party at home…then she got sick.  Super high fever, etc, etc…so no party.  Or rather, a very scaled back one.  We lumped it together with the Dutch Sinterklaas Intocht on TV.  She sat there and ate her cake a little (mostly the m&ms) and was a bit down still.  Fortunately, the next day she was right as rain and a happy kitten again.

So off the the Truffle Market in Murten! Super, super cold and damp (as always in autumn/winter in that town), but lots of yummy truffle-y goodness!  We bought truffle brie, truffle honey, truffle potato chips, truffle bison sausage and ate truffle risotto.  Oh…and I bought a black truffle as well, which is currently resting in a jar of risotto rice in my fridge waiting for this weekend.

Between it all, I have been frantically swatching and trying to come up with a pattern to knit with my Miss Babs Advent kit in December – I’ve been stash diving, and since I have an insane amount of blue yarn, I’m playing with that for the time being.  I hope to have it ready for testing before the first of December. (Yet another Grand Plan of mine…I’m just too ambitious/optimistic/delusional)

Pictures?