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Grandmother Poems and Grandfather Poems: Poems and Things To Do With Grandchildren

Grandmother Poems and Grandfather Poems: Poems and Things To Do With Grandchildren

Sometimes life gives you some time to just go..........hummmmmmmmm

To everything there is a season. 

 Today I had a conversation with a young friend of mine. She was sharing how there were people in her life that were always "letting her down". She was trying to process if it was time to just let those people go. She told me she didn't want to burn bridges ..but I just told her...you don't have to burn anything..but you CAN walk to the other side.

As she and I chatted, I thought about a lot of the feeling I have been having about my own 'friends'. It is always hard, when you have a close, connected relationship with another person and you end up feeling 'let down'. One of those people you talk to most everyday. One of those people you can share anything with and they can share anything with you. Then after years of being in each others lives something seems to change and the phone calls stop happening and the distance starts to creep in.

Sometimes it can be an event that causes things like this to happen. But there are also times that nothing really 'happens'...but that person just seems to be GONE from you. 

I have been around a long time and much longer than my young friend. But I must admit, that those times in my life when this has happened to me has been some of my lowest times of my life. 

I have always taken time to look at myself...see if I am just too honest or too depressing and bring that other person down with me..therefore they run away. I have always tried to get these people to talk to me about what might have happened...how I make them feel or how 'they' are feeling. 

If it has been how they do feel about me and how I effect them and this has been the case, no one has ever shared that is how they have felt. Most often they have shared, their life has become filled with a new job, doing new and busy things with their kids, connecting with a new husband..and the list goes on. 

At any rate, I don't know really why we lose friends that have seemed so close to us...but after having it happen to me in my life...I can only think it is just part of life.

To everything there is a season.

Two steps forward......three steps back?

There are lots of times you hear two steps forward and three steps back. I always thought it was so discouraging...to think that no matter how are we try we are always behind!!

I love to do things with my hands...and knitting has a given me the chance to 'make things' with my hands. 

But I must admit, that very often, I start a pattern or pick up a yarn that I just 'don't like'! So I find myself taking the project apart. And putting the pattern aside [or just throwing it away] and putting the yarn back in my 'stash' for another day.

The past few weeks or maybe for over a month, I have been doing this a lot. I started a vest pattern using sock yarn. I spend hours on it getting the body part of it done. I held it up to myself [since I was looking for a project I could finish for ME] and just didn't like the way it laid or the way the colors of the yarn was 'patterning' up. SO...I torn the whole thing apart...wound up the yarn and put the yarn away.

I found a 'sweater pattern' on line that also uses sock yarn...so last night...I grabbed the sock yarn from the torn apart vest pattern and started knitting away on the new sweater pattern.

I must admit, I really don't know if I will like it when it is done, or if I will again, get to a point where I can see I don't like the pattern or something and again tear it apart! 

BUT that two steps forward and three steps back...well....sometimes it is all about the process...even if you don't get 'steps' ahead by others standards...we do LEARN during the process...we do make good use of the time but seeing what we do and don't like. 

I am heading for my knitting needles now...going to pick up the sweater that is is only a collar and about an inch of 'shoulders' and start knitting away.

I can take my two steps ahead how I see to do it...and it is my choice to NOT do the three steps behind part! :)

 

Today was one of those..............

Today was one of the cabin fever kind of days...seems I could not focus on much at hand...did do a wee bit of knitting and that was it.

I had several people post this poor snowman photo on Facebook or send it in emails. He is tired of his winter life as you can see.

Not sure I am ready to hang myself...not that much cabin fever yet! But I am getting tired of not being able to drive on the nasty roads and having cold hands and feet!

I guess, it still goes back to finding creative things for me to do. I started to knit cup warmers. And as neat as they are...I was looking at the one finished one I had last done last night and thought....yep...I have lost my mind. I am knitting cup warmers and thinking they look 'cool'! This is why women back in the day would go nuts on making Christmas towels by the dozen or empty the stash of homemade wine before the spring thaw.

At any rate.....I am moving my feet [have to keep them warm some how!] and keep reading more ideas of things to make with my hands [have to keep them warm too!] this month.

I did get my 'free' sweater pattern. It uses sock yarn and is in adult sizes. So I will go put that on needles...watch some more mindless TV and keep feeling bad from sad Mr. Snowman that is tired of the winter!

It is just one of those things...you go into a little second hand shop and just walk around...keeping your mind open to all the little treasures that you might find. After Molly and Cyler were dropped off that DTW in January [after their holiday visit in Ohio for Christmas] I did just that...stop at the little shop that is outside Monroe, right off an exit. They have lots of vendors in the 'mall' and on the very last look around, in the very last booth...I found my plaster Virgin Mary.

I knew as soon as I saw her...she might be able to be mine. And when I checked out the price...$8 was right up my alley! :) So I added her to my newest stash [I found a lidded dish that matched my china set as well] and walked to the check out.

Now, on these LONG winter nights...with snow surrounding me...and my knitting needles [or quilt] in front of me...I can sit on my little love seat and look at my Madonna and watch her soft face 'glow' in the candle light. She was meant to be mine...meant to give me a little peace in the middle of this long winter!

I was not able to blog for a few days....Chloe's computer died..and so I gave her my laptop to use in BG. The old clunker one Keith uses has a total messed up keyboard so there was no way I could even type!

So I got the old K12 computer up and running...and here I go...blogging away again! I really did miss it...blogging seems to be a new way journal for me! :)

I have been staying busy with my quilt I am making for Huxley. It is going to be a great size for her to lay on on the floor. It is going to be bigger than most baby quilts would have to be. But that is going to be good in the long run....since she is starting to try to crawl around and this will give her more 'space' to do that and still be on the blanket!

I did get the topper done and layered with two layers of the cotton batting. And got it in the quilting hoop. I then started to knot it and was using pearl cotton. I don't mind it on the big panel..but I am thinking that maybe I need to use yarn instead. THIS IS WHAT ALWAYS TAKES ME SO LONG TO FINISH ANYTHING...THINKING THINKING AND THINKING SOME MORE!!!! But I always think, if I don't like it in the end...why do it at all. I know it isn't always about the end product, it is also about the process..but when you ALWAYS stand back and look at the end product and say YUCK! then I just think I MUST pay attention to the end product.

I think with the knotting of this quilt, it is the idea that since it is all in flannels..the pearl cotton just isn't 'fuzzy enough or soft enough to 'fit in'! I wish I was able to get to Monroe to Crafts 2000. I think they have 'crewel' wool and that is what I think I need. HUMMMM But I will probably just use the sock yarn I have or the left over from the Dr. Who scarf! At least I am going to try that and see if I like how it looks with yarn!