Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
I recently happened into a little money, so I did the only logical thing I could: I blew it on yarn. Originally I wanted only to buy a knitting pattern, but the pattern wasn’t downloadable, so I’d have to have…
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On my parenting forum, one of the moms has a four-year-old with leukemia. I’ve been praying for her on and off for a while. This is not the kind of thing a little kid (or her parents!) should have to…
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I’m knitting the most beautiful pair of socks I’ve ever encountered. Normally it takes six to twelve weeks for me to get through socks. This time, I finished the first in eight days. I’m in love. They’re the OceanWind Knits…
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I made Kiddo#1 a pair of socks, finally. They are not red. He doesn’t mind. He says his friends like them, but I can’t tell if he’s just saying that. And yes, if you were asking yourself: his feet are…
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The novel-in-progress is the first where I used an actual plotting technique to plan the novel, as opposed to letting it unfold as the characters naturally reacted to the results of the decisions they’d made. I’m 23,000 words into the…
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A while ago I posted that I had no yarn mojo left, no urge to knit, no nothing. Well, it’s back. Ivy says cold weather makes people want to knit. I think it was Christmas. I made a couple of…
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Last year, Ivy posited that knitting means love. I don’t remember whether it was on her weblog or on her podcast, but she said that to a knitter, making an item says love. A friend of mine and I were…
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If I’d known how many decisions you have to make while knitting, I’d have made one big decision a long time ago that would have eliminated all the rest of them. I got hooked into crocheting (hah) during a vulnerable…
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It occurred to me this Sunday at church that I was surrounded by people who had lived a lifetime of holiness, and I can barely raise my kids. I’m also easily-distracted, so during Mass, I also noticed one of those…
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Since May or thereabouts, I’ve had no knitting mojo whatsoever. I don’t know why. I finished the last thing I made back then — a hat, I guess — and I lost all urge to knit or crochet. I worked…
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