sherriknits

Not much knitting progress this weekend for silly reasons.  I was working on the socks…but when I was at work, my friend and helper said she found a size 0 needle near the couch and would just stick it in a basket until someone claimed it.  Didn’t give it a thought.  Forgot to stick my shawl pattern in my bag…and had left my wash cloth pattern at home. 

Hubby and I are in the habit of having a date night every Friday night (and often on Wed. night) but this past week was full of fundraising where he works so we didn’t really see much of each other all week.  We decided to have our date Saturday night and he planned to walk to the shop so we could leave directly from there.  Our oldest daughter is getting married this June and her fiance just took a position in a church an hour and a half away as youth pastor so we decided to take the drive to check out the area.  It was a beautiful sunny afternoon and I was looking forward to knitting time.  Five minutes into the drive, I discovered I had no needle on one side of my sock… and no patterns for the other two projects.  I can almost do the washcloth from memory but had gotten a little confused at where I was so didn’t feel like sorting that out.  My fingers were a bit twitchy during the drive, but I just tried to enjoy the time visitng with hubby instead.  We really liked the little town they are moving to and the drive is nice.

Now part way in to the trip I discovered that something had spilled on my seat and when I got out, I was just soaked!  This was somewhat embarrassing when we stopped for dinner and of course we were seated as far in and winded as much as you could wind through all of the busy tables!  Hubby said it wasn’t really noticeable but it sure felt like it was!  After dinner, we decided to do what we love to do…go to Barnes and Noble and read a bit and drink a cup of coffee.  We stopped on the way and I bought new jeans…and amazingly I found some that I liked!

Today was just an emotional day for me.  I am still sorting through the situation we went through the last 6 months.  Life is so much better, but I am realizing the healing process is not quite as simple as it would seem to be.  I did a lot of crying this afternoon and hubby is soooo encouraging.  This was a situation that was so hard on us that for one of the few times in our marriage we were not able to help each other because we were both just trying to survive our emotional pain.  Thankfully we are back to being able to help when the other is down.  It makes me think how very thankful I am for my family and for those who have been such a help.  Because of all the emotion today, I just couldn’t settle enough to knit so I read blogs instead.

One I read, and I have no idea where was about “why I blog”, evidently there are many who are asking themselves that question.  I am like a lot of them, I really did just start for keeping a personal record of my knitting projects (or lack thereof these days)…not to journal about my life per se.  I have been able to see the part knitting has played in my life through two pretty intense times in my life now and I think it’s pretty amazing.  I am not sure I would have seen it if I wasn’t blogging.  I used to be a journaler but whenever life gets really intense, I tend to quit writing..which makes no sense to me at all but I guess that’s how it is.  haha

I am not really as melancholy as I sound today, it’s just been a thought-filled day but I really am at peace.  I guess today was just looking back at the journey we have travelled and seeing that there has been tremendous progress and growth from where we were 6 months ago. 

I think I’ll turn the light on now and get out my knitting and see what I can do.  It has gotten dark without me even noticing.  Everyone is doing whatever they do to relax today and it’s actually been a pleasant day even with the emotion. 

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