A Mindful Life

Well, I’m here at home on the sofa with a sick kid. She has a fever and congestion. “We” are watching Sesame Street and Between the Lions, after which we’ll try to figure out what else to do. She’s just sick enough to be clingy and well enough to be restless and whiny. I’ve written [...]

I had a 100-yard ball of expensive yarn and found a neat little pattern for fingerless gloves. Here, in light woad, are they: And here is information about woad, which is a plant used to make blue dye.

Claire colored, I cut, and she “helped” with the tape.

How realistic is the expectation that an almost-2 child should self-amuse often and long? I know some mothers whose children of the same age will play for 30-60 minutes by themselves. I sometimes worry that I “play too much” with Claire. I do try to take little breaks to do chores, read, or blog, but [...]

Yesterday Claire went with her father to the hardware store, and she saw paint there, and of course she came home obsessed with a desire to paint. It was too late in the day to start since we had company coming, and I promised her today we’d do it. She was thrilled this morning when [...]

I made the Fidget, and it’s wonderful. I used a yarn that has cashmere in it (plus wool), and it is thick and squishy and cozy. I don’t know who the lucky recipient will be, and I’m toying with the idea of trying to sell it on Etsy (or to you, my reader). I will [...]

I bought some yarn a couple years ago for a project, and when I recently got out the supplies from my stash I discovered I’d purchased the wrong amount for it. So I’ve had to re-purpose the yarns. I made an accessory scarf from one skein of Rowan Tapestry on size 8 needles. I also [...]

Having a child has heightened my awareness in several ways. The predominant pleasure of this awareness is the experience of discovery. We were in her wading pool on a very hot day, and honey bees flew around us to drink some water. Rather than get nervous and try to bat them away, we watched them. [...]