Another week has slipped by, as summer days seem to do. How I wish for the long days like when I was young and the 8 weeks of summer stretched endlessly before me and I thought I would die of absolute boredom before it ended. Yeah, I’d like to be bored right now!
But, I have met great Ottawa bloggers – two, in fact! And on top of being great bloggers, they are of course, amazing knitters! I’d like you to meet them, if you haven’t found them already. Here’s Susan of http://www.thefabricofherreality.blogspot.com/ and Joyce of http://knitjo.blogspot.com/ . Absolutely lovely, these two ladies are, and oh so talented. Have you seen Susan’s quilting – amazing! And Joyce works often without patterns she told us – just her stitch pattern book – amazing. I can only wait for the day! We had a wonderful discussion on reading charts, and discovered that a few of us hadn’t used them and were a bit intimidated by it all. I do believe we’ll work on that this fall, and I know I’ll be in good hands with expert knitters around to guide us. Of course you know that means a new project and more yarn to be purchased – can you tell how devastated I am (tee-hee!)?
My Afghan for Afghans Square Slog-a-long is definitely slogging along, just a few more to go. I should have had it done this past weekend, but you know how that goes – best laid plans and all! Still the end is in sight, and I must not let this goal out of my sight for a minute least it slide down that slippery slope into WIP land. Head towards the light, Kate, towards the light!!!
Someone, I can’t remember where, remarked about having too many projects on the go and why it is that as we approach the end of a project that instead of finishing, we put it aside and cast on for another. It was an interesting perspective suggesting that it may have something to do with grieving for the end of a project that may have been with us so long we’ll not know what to do without it when it comes to an end. Certainly it will be a change for me not to pick up a square for take-along knitting as I head out the door, after knitting nothing else but these little woolly patches for the past 7 weeks. Luckily, I have all those WIP’s in the wings ready to be taken back up and gladly finished! And there is certainly no end in sight of wonderful new projects to fill the void!
In other news, DD2 turned 23 this weekend (where does the time go?), and if you will indulge me, I’ll just put on my mom hat and ask all you moms to have a little chat with your children, young or young adult, about the importance of honouring their commitments to others.
DD2’s birthday weekend should have been a fun time as she had planned a get-together with friends at a local dance club. A small group of friends confirmed their attendance, and so dressed up for an evening of dancing she went off to meet them. It’s an hour-long bus ride downtown and an even longer 1.5 hours on the late bus home. Not one of the friends showed up at the club. Not one. Not a phone call. No text message apologies. Nothing. So putting on her brave face, she bus-ed home and crept in to bed without a word. I am heartbroken (for her) as I am sure she must be. And I’m really, really, really angry too!
How could these young adults be so callous, so thoughtless? How could they not care knowing that she would be waiting there for them as planned, and not even make a call to her cell? Why wouldn’t they do at least that? Could they not even fathom what that might feel like, to be left standing there, all alone, and on your birthday too? I can’t imagine it, and it just tears me up. Oh, I know that young people are supposedly so wrapped up in their own little worlds and stuff; that they probably didn’t mean it to happen; we’re so sorry. That’s crap! It’s bad manners plain and simple to make plans and then not go through with them. Our children must be taught to respect and follow through the commitments they make to others. Period. So fellow bloggers – please, please, please don’t let your children do this to their friends – it is never too early or too late to teach your children to respect others and the commitments they make to each other no matter what else may come up. It is very, very important. When these things happen, it hurts really, really hard, at any age.
Now if you’ll excuse me - I must go and hug my DD2 again and remind her that she is very, very, very special, especially to us.
Knit on…
Kate
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