No resolutions

This afternoon I wrote a long post about the new year. It was all warm and fuzzy and quite a good bit of writing… somehow it got deleted and I do not have the creativity to try to rewrite it now. Bummer. Anyway, the big point of it is I am not making new years resolutions this year. I am perfectly happy with everything and I am just looking forward to what will come our way in 2011.
I wanted to share that now the knitting link at the top goes directly to my ravelry page. I am new there.. but I will slowly start posting the patterns and yarn for the projects I am working on. I just put up the sweater I am making for Drew. It is a really great and simple pattern. Here is a picture of what I have finished so far ..

It isn’t quite as bright as the picture shows. I love this yarn and I think it will look wonderful on Drew. I am trying to complete it by February. Then I hope to start in on a spring sweater coat for Hadley.
I hope everyone is having a great start to 2011!

Happy New Year

Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life:
In its brief course lie
All the realities and truths of existence,
The joy of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power.
For yesterday is but a memory,
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
Makes every yesterday a memory of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
–anon

Some thoughts for 2010

I am really looking forward to what this year will hold for our family. I know there will be changes, possibly a move, and of course more great times together. I am not really one to make resolutions per say but I thought I could write down a few ideas on where I would like to focus my energy in the coming year.
First, I am going to start doing some of the enki kindy stories with Phoebe– the younger ones– and some fingerplays– she loves those. I think I have a good established rhythm with Drew and that it is time to add in stories for Phoebe. I am planning on starting up again on Monday. And as always I’ll just give it a go and then readjust if need be
Second, I want to learn to knit a sweater. I hope to be able to go out to innish knits in the next few weeks to choose some yarn. Oh– and I would really like to knit some legwarmers for Phoebe. She has been asking and asking.
Third, I am hoping to find more creative ways to get protein in our meals– especially for Phoebe. She is getting very picky in what she will eat. It is a constant challenge for me to find nutritious things she enjoys.
Fourth, I need to change my reactions to Drew. He is in a new stage and I need to welcome it. Many of the Enki lists talk about a trickster energy that comes forth in or around the seventh year — I think Drew is hitting it early. He has been hiding behind walls and jumping out to startle me (oh boy!) He has been telling half- truths for shock value. And, a few days ago he was strangly excited to put the vacuum away — and today I found out why. He had turned it on — so when I plugged it in today it zoomed across the floor all by itself — you should of heard the laughing from his room! (and many more things like this– the list goes on and on) And well– while I have not been resisting it– I can not say I have really wrapped my arms around this stage and welcomed it. Now it is time to! And I need to start plotting some good tricks of my own! I can imagine things are going to get pretty funny around here
Well that is a good start to my thoughts in 2010. And of course I will vow to follow my sweet husband to the ends of the earth — even if it means southern California. I am always up for an adventure.