Recent Happenings

It has been awhile..... 

Let me briefly share the following updates on my knitting committments & mothering:

• I was able to knit a few more squares over the holiday.  This is not the progress I hoped for, but progress, nonetheless.
• I received a set of circular looms for Christmas.  Hmmmm......they have made me curious & I have toyed with them a bit, making one hat and one more is in process.
• Lily is sleeping better!  After renting every book on babies & sleeping from the library, I've decided to be more routine in the times that I feed her cereal.  I have been quite sporadic, and since I've gone to feeding her rice cereal twice everyday, at 9 and 2, her sleeping has improved.   The night we returned from visiting family resulted in a ten hour stretch!!!  One word: AMAZING.  I thought it would be difficult to maintain this routine while visiting family, but instead found it quite easy.  Her six month check up will be Monday.
• Knitting is great because it's a convenient hobby that gives back.  I don't need to take up a whole table, I don't need a ton of tools... I just need a bag, some yarn & some needles: I love it! 

I leave you with the following epiphany:

How cool is it that God has given us the desire to create beautiful, unique things?  For this is His very nature, as OUR creator.  I am so thankful & humbled that He would allow me to experience just a taste of how divine it is to make something and acknowledge that it is good!

Season's Greetings

I have a confession.  The Garter Stitch Blanket (aka the second project I have embarked upon from the baby knits for beginners book by Debbie Bliss) is not a fun project.  It is in the sense that I can knit one of the squares fairly quickly..... But then I realize that all my squares are not as uniform as I'd hoped.   And then...then....I want to give up because I don't want to end up with a blanket that is all whopper-jawed and made of expensive yarn. Aargh.... Sigh.... 

Hence, I have put the completed "squares" in my knitting bag and have officially set it aside.   I hope that over Christmas break, I re-discover my motivation for this project.   In the meantime, I tried to start a stocking for my Lily.  Double-pointed needles=awkwardness and confusion.  It looks like I may need to spend some time once again on knittinghelp.com or in the presence of my Martha Stewart friend.   Now, don't you worry---I am not giving up entirely!  Just taking a mini-break.  You all definitely help in the accountability department...   

In the meantime, I plan to work on sleep.   You see, the other reason why I am not finding myself in the knitting mood lately is because my knitting time has been taking place between the time Lily goes to bed and when I got to bed.   The little one goes down around 7 or 8, and then proceeds to awaken half-a-dozen times before I hit the sack around 11.  And then, then....she is still waking another half-a-dozen times before the morning....   Yawn.   Growth spurt? Bad habits? Not sure.  But one thing is for sure: I am tired and I am not knitting.   

Sleep-deprived in Indiana.