Therapy

"Therapy is expensive, bubble wrap is cheap. You choose!" I don't know who said this, but it has a point :-) But this time we chose knitting needles and crochet hooks instead of bubble wrap. (I have to admit that I love popping bubble wrap so much that usually DH ends up telling me to stop.)

Well, beth bynnag ("anyway" in Welsh), I joined a knitting group almost 5 years ago. We meet every 3-4 weeks taking turns to be the hostess. Knit, crochet, any craft will do. Outi joined this spring. We're 6 women who have 16 children! Sometimes when the DH's haven't realised the importance of these meetings and not taking care of the kids we have a lot of helpers and we're not able to do that much crafts, but it has become more easy since the children are getting older (aged 1.5 to 12, 11 boys and 5 girls). But the last Saturday of May we had a therapy day. Just the moms, no kids, no DHs. We started with a Pilates class in our livingroom, then had massages, had chicken-halloumi-strawberry salad for lunch and Outis banana muffins. Knitting and crocheting played a big part in our day. And it was therapy! We stayed at our place until late afternoon, then continued our session at Sari's, knitting, chatting eating chocolte cake. We were all of the opinion that 1 therapy day per year is way too little!
Sari, Anso, Kati (behind the spoon-art dangling from the ceiling), Marjo and Outi. Vilijonkka might recognize a few friendly faces, she used to be a member and as far as I know, visits this page quite regularly *waving*.