While I haven’t written a new post in a very, very, very long time, it is not because I haven’t been knitting. It’s really all my daughter’s fault. (Nice, blame the six year old.)
Alright, alright. It isn’t really my daughter’s fault. But she did start school in the Fall of 2012, and that certainly changed our lives.
I thought that with her in Kindergarten and gone for three and a half hours each day, I’d have all this time to catch up on things that I hadn’t had time for in, oh, about 5 years. Like organizing our thousands of photographs, sorting through her outgrown clothes and toys, being better at keeping up with family and friends, finishing all my UFOs, and working on my many knitting ideas.
You other moms are smiling and laughing now, aren’t you? “Oh, that foolish, naive woman,” you’re saying. And you’d be right. What I had envisioned was not what came to be. Three and a half hours is surprisingly not a lot of time when you have all the regular household chores and errands to do (although it was infinitely faster to do them solo than with a little one in tow). So the few uninterrupted minutes I did have to devote to knitting, I just wanted to knit, and not to spend the time writing a blog post. Hence my absence.
I also learned that being on a schedule is work in and of itself. And it takes a lot of planning to maintain a schedule. But we’ve (finally) hit our stride and I think we have this school-thing down. (Famous last words, I know.)
Now my daughter is in 1st grade and gone for six and a half hours a day. And that is long enough to get all my regular household stuff done and still have time for extra projects, like organizing, sorting, knitting, creating patterns, and blogging.
I’m not a resolution person per se, but I guess this really is one: I intend to devote more time to creating and writing up my patterns and doing blog posts. And since it’s the last day of 2013, that just might be considered a New Year’s resolution. So on that note, whatever your resolutions for 2014, I wish you a happy, healthy, and knitting-filled New Year!
P.S. I will write more about many of the things I worked on during my blogging absence. For now though, here’s a photographic preview of some of those projects, both completed and still-in-progress.