Sunday, August 15, 2010

Just keep knitting

From 2010 Finished Objects


This year has been one of those years where my focus has been on just getting by. I haven't had the luxury of time to focus on goals and objectives, of things I'd like to get accomplished, of striving for some grand thing to show for the year. Instead, I've been in survival mode.

From 2010 Finished Objects


Some days, I've found myself praying, "Please, God, help me get through this next hour, day, week, month, year." My hopes of finishing Rosetta Stone level 1 where nice, but unobtainable. Sure, it would have been grand to cook exclusively from our CSA this year, but reality got in the way. Yea, I would have loved to have the house completely decorated, but hey, it will still be there later.

From 2010 Finished Objects


We've been jumping from school to work to homework to sports practice to dinner to bed, only to start again in the morning. Through it all, I've knitting away, almost mindlessly, but knitting nonetheless to help keep the stress of work and home at bay.

From 2010 Finished Objects


If you keep knitting, before you know it, you'll have a few baby hats, and a pair of socks, and a middle schooler who's asking for help with his tie.

From Irish Clover


He's tossed aside his backpack with the shark on it, despite how well it served him the last few years, in favor of a new backpack with a laptop compartment, much better suited for middle school.

From Irish Clover


He'll tell you about his locker and how he has it organized, and that his locker neighbor has a fully functioning disco ball and how he thinks a Manning Fathead might be just what his locker needs. He'll still ask you though to walk him just a little way through the parking lot on school mornings. He may be in a tie and with a really big kid backpack, but he's still a work in progress.

1 comment:

Diane said...

Though I have no where near you daily tasks and talents, I feel the same; my knitting has taken a side-line in my life. The unfinished business remains, but what we have accomplished is the most important; family is alive and loved. Knitting and homes will continue get worked on, just not at such a frenetic pace as years past. Congrats on the middle schooler.
Max starts CBU a week from today and William started school a week ago at Middle Collage, associated with CBU.