A few days ago:
The week after Christmas I have a special knack for overlooking the fact that my house looks like the bottom of a parrot cage. The other 51 weeks I am a ruthless cleaner-upper of messes and devoted organizer. But after Christmas, I just don't have the energy: people, I am pooped. You are too, right? Here at Casa Knitionary, activities are being kept to a minimum. On Saturday I walked downtown in a half-hearted attempt to take advantage of the day-after sales and came home with nothing but a few packets of paper cocktail napkins for next year--it really was just an excuse for a walk in the fresh air. On Sunday I went to the mall with my husband as he was determined to get some new duds. Success! After three pairs of pants and a sports coat he wanted to go out to lunch and I moaned, please don't make me eat again, take me home, my tummy needs to rest and anyway, we have those leftovers. Back home I barely had the energy to click the needles together. Haha, you know I'm kidding--I've been knitting like a maniac while binge watching Grand Hotel. Can you believe my husband has never had the unique pleasure of binge watching? After 6 episodes of diabolical intrigue, I informed him we had a mere 60 episodes to go! You should have heard the groan!
As for Christmas week--it was a great success with lovely visits with family and friends. I'm happy to say that as a knitter, I received the best gift of all: my hand-knitted gifts were giant hits; my daughter loved her poncho, son his vest and granddaughter her hats, scarf and wrist-warmers. Annie left with a new project on the needles; a hat for her best friend. As for the kind of gifts you actually open on Christmas morn, I did manage to talk my lovelies into giving me yarny gifts even though they are worried I won't live long enough to knit my Christmas gift yarn, let alone the rest of my stash, and they haven't even seen the half of it.
Today:
I started this post and never got around to adding my pictures so I thought I'd add a postscript: It's amazing what a few days of lazy will do. I am a new person with energy to spare! Yesterday morning I hopped out of bed and attacked the Christmas clutter. It's mostly gone now, but I kept a little bit of the shiny and twinkly up, just for January. My houseplants had been banished to a guest room and are now gathered together in a sunny kitchen window and look very happy. My yarn is stored away for now--until the right project comes along. Here are some random shots of the past week.
Today:
I started this post and never got around to adding my pictures so I thought I'd add a postscript: It's amazing what a few days of lazy will do. I am a new person with energy to spare! Yesterday morning I hopped out of bed and attacked the Christmas clutter. It's mostly gone now, but I kept a little bit of the shiny and twinkly up, just for January. My houseplants had been banished to a guest room and are now gathered together in a sunny kitchen window and look very happy. My yarn is stored away for now--until the right project comes along. Here are some random shots of the past week.
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| Meet the choir girls, or the church ladies as we sometimes call ourselves. My long-time girlfriends and I host a party every year after our last Christmas concert. We met when we had toddlers, now we are grandmothers! |
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| Annie came to visit. Remember when she was teensy? Now she is 15! |
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| We stayed one night at the Fairmont, and my son upgraded us to a pretty nice suite! |
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| Annie loved her fingerless mitts and hat. More on that later. |
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| There is a Christmas tree on top of that crane! |
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| My son and his girlfriend. |
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| With my husband at a Christmas party. We didn't know there was a photographer station until we were heading out the door! |
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| Here and below--my favorite kind of gift! |
Right now we are headed out the door to see Brooklyn. We hear it's fantastic!
Until next year,
- December 29, 2015
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