Hello 2010!

Whew!  I try not to be one of those people that gets carried away with the hectic-ness of the holidays, and I think I did really well with setting limits and not taking on too much, but I feel like I haven’t stopped moving since I started sewing Halloween costumes in September!  Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, then The Girl’s Second birthday.  It’s been a lot. I’ve been crafting nonstop for five months!  Not that that’s a bad thing, but I am really feeling the need to slow down.  Every year I do a little better at simplifying the holidays and next year I hope to simplify even more.  But for now, I am taking a breather, which seems to be what everyone is doing these days in the blogworld.  And that’s just fine by me.

But I have so much to tell you, and share.  So many posts written in my head, but not on the computer.  It’s like when you need to write someone an email, and you know you have a lot to say, so you put it off, then you have so much more to say that you know it’ll take ages to write it all down.

I’m so paralyzed by the thought of writing it all that I just go sit on the couch and knit.  And my, does it ever feel good to be still.  Not to mention that it is really cold down here in Florida.  Which I know is a joke to those of you up North, but I assure you that it has been way colder for way longer than it usually is.  It’s all relative to what you’re used to.  Might I mention that I live in a very drafty (nearly 100 year old) house that was not built for comfort.  Not today’s standards of comfort anyway.

So most of my time has been occupied by knitting.  It’s nice to not feel the pressure of making a gift for someone.  It’s just crafting for the sake of happiness.  And what’s better than that?!

I found my knitting basket buried under a bunch of other projects, and manged to find my place in the patterns.  A small miracle, really.  I’ve been working on the second sock of my first ever knitted socks.  Maybe I might actually get to wear them before it gets hot again!  I’m almost finished with one of these, and also planning some baby projects.  (Not for me, heavens no!)  Why does every knitting project I do require spending hours on Ravelry, then multiple trips to the craft store for knitting needles?

Well, while you ponder that, I hear a couch, a quilt, a hot cup of tea, and some knitting needles calling my name.