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Colorway: Mosaic Moon’s Lughnasagh
Fiber type: Blue Faced Leicester
8oz and 261yds total, (105yds and 156yds)
Love to travel, hate to (un)pack…
It’s no secret, I LOVE traveling. It doesn’t really matter how close or far from home, I just love seeing new things, exploring new worlds and, just plain getting away from the “norm”. Unfortunately this great love is coupled with a great hate… packing and unpacking. It is certainly the worst part of it all. Lucky(?) for me my kids seem to have an over-abundance of clothing which allows me to procrastinate for days this task of getting everything put away.
We got back home on Monday…Vince is the only one that has unpacked. We’ve been inside because of the snow, I really have no excuse. Well, unless the orders I’m working on count. I say they do.
Anyway, I need to unpack. I just don’t really want to. I’m really trying to find any excuse not to. Bad momma!
Another calendar page flipped…
I’ll admit it, I am a little bit in denial that I have flipped yet ANOTHER calendar page. Seriously, September?!?! Why is time flying so fast. Just a little more than three months left of this pregnancy, WOW. Evan is back in school. A new season of MOPS began last week. AWANA starts tomorrow. Um, yeah, I just don’t know what to say.
I NEED to get started on Christmas presents! I know December will be here faster than I can prepare for, but I’d at least like to try. I will be doing my best to make this holiday a hand-crafted one. No, I am not crazy enough to believe that I can make everything for everyone, but I will be going out of my way to avoid commercially made "stuff". I’ll be shopping at my favorite places… the many stores at Hyenacart and ETSY. Where women (and men) take the time to make each item that is for sale, not some machine pumping out plastic!! I’ve even started receiving some things for the kids already. The extra beauty of hand-crafted items is that you can trade and barter your skills! I’ve been busy dyeing and spinning for others as they embroider, sew, paint, knit and crochet for my kids! Can’t get much better than that!
First step on a long road…
Well, we survived our meeting on Thursday.
My motivation for actually walking through the door was that the family that was watching the kids had offered to keep them all evening so that Vince and I could have a date night. God’s provisions are awesome! The meeting was long and parts were pretty ugly. I feel better about one relationship and future communication but as for the other I can’t even imagine where reconciliation would begin after some of the things that were said.
I know that God places people in our lives for a season and I understand that at times He grows us apart. I am continuing to pray for His hand in all of this. I know we’re far from the end. Please continue to pray with me for peace through this. I know that stress isn’t good for ANYONE, but I am of course even more concerned about my stress when it comes to the baby I am carrying.
Thank you so much to those of you that joined us and covered us in prayer on Thursday. It made such an impact on how I handled myself through the meeting. I knew I was being lifted up and it helped more than you may ever know!