Good heavens. I knew going into this move that cleaning out a home that was LIVED in for 25 years was going to be fun (work) but I had no idea to what degree. Don't get me wrong it's been many hours of fun and some sadness. But I am happy to say that we are in the final days and we should be fully moved Aug. 7th.
Again I am facing the duality of life, the excitement of moving, meeting new people, working with a great lady at the Smoky Mountain Spinnery, and living in a beautiful area. Then realizing that I'm leaving the home where I raised both my kids, the countless fish, etc that are buried in the back yard, the tree I rescued and it only had two leaves to now it's taller than my 3 story house. Not to even mention the friends, opportunities and experiences I've had here in Atlanta. So I'm finding comfort in believing two things. 1) Life is seasonal. Everything has a time and season, things, people, etc come and go. Releasing and detatching. 2) Everything happens for a reason. There are great things ahead for me and my family, but they won't happen if I'm sitting still, afriad to move.
We are all called to walk a path, some times the path is smooth and level and then there are those times when the path is treacherous. I'm a traveler on my path, looking, learning and loving. This time my path is leading me to the Smoky Mountains.
I so look forward to keeping in touch (better than I have in the past) and staying in contact with you either through the blog or through Ravelry.
Hugs to all of you.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, May 21, 2007
I no idea what to title this. LOL.
Life's road lately has been pretty up and down hill. Well maybe not lately, more like the first of the year. But things took a strange turn over the weekend. And you don't know how much I would love to share with you about it, but for legal reasons I have to sit here with it all by myself. But, lets just say that for some people rushing head on into things can prove to be disastrous.
I on the other hand believe that I have found a new home. Now to get out of this one. LOL. You know all those hours of knitting, looking at those needles and each stitch, not looking up at the things around here I could have been doing is catching up with me. Actually, it's more like going through boxes, closets, drawers and stuff like that. We regularly clean out our old clothes and things we don't wear, but some of this stuff was packed away to keep when the kids were little and have to be gone back through. Anyway, back to the house. It's a beautiful contemporary home on a wooded corner lot, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, loft, den newly painted, new carpet and stainless appliances. I just love this house. And most of the colors they painted are colors that I adore. So now I have to get this house cleaned up, a few repairs and sold. I am so motivated to get it all done now.
In the knitting world, I am still working on the second prayer shawl. It's coming a long slowly. But it's very relaxing. I have this stirring in my knitting soul, to start a pair of light weight summer socks, but I feel bad about the fact that I have two pair of socks on needles sitting here looking at me. I guess because they are very detailed and I couldn't just sit down and knit without really thinking and watching the pattern, that I got burned out on them. And the fact that they are heavy Fall and Winter socks. So we'll see about the summer socks. I really miss the days where I could knit for a few hours at a time with no interruptions. But maybe there will be those days ahead again.
I on the other hand believe that I have found a new home. Now to get out of this one. LOL. You know all those hours of knitting, looking at those needles and each stitch, not looking up at the things around here I could have been doing is catching up with me. Actually, it's more like going through boxes, closets, drawers and stuff like that. We regularly clean out our old clothes and things we don't wear, but some of this stuff was packed away to keep when the kids were little and have to be gone back through. Anyway, back to the house. It's a beautiful contemporary home on a wooded corner lot, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, loft, den newly painted, new carpet and stainless appliances. I just love this house. And most of the colors they painted are colors that I adore. So now I have to get this house cleaned up, a few repairs and sold. I am so motivated to get it all done now.
In the knitting world, I am still working on the second prayer shawl. It's coming a long slowly. But it's very relaxing. I have this stirring in my knitting soul, to start a pair of light weight summer socks, but I feel bad about the fact that I have two pair of socks on needles sitting here looking at me. I guess because they are very detailed and I couldn't just sit down and knit without really thinking and watching the pattern, that I got burned out on them. And the fact that they are heavy Fall and Winter socks. So we'll see about the summer socks. I really miss the days where I could knit for a few hours at a time with no interruptions. But maybe there will be those days ahead again.
Friday, May 04, 2007
A No Picture Post
The fast pace around here is now the norm. Like I have mentioned in the past we've been dealing with a lot of change and closure on things because of a decision my EX made. One day soon I will share the whole thing. Now his life is wonderful and he is happy, but it's at a great cost and he doesn't even realize it. His kids are the price.
Like I have said before we are moving, some where. We are staying in GA. With Sara's internship at the bakery and GT about to finish homeschool and take his GED, I can't see moving out of state. We have so many friends here and our roots are pretty much dug deep in the red clay of Georgia. We've been looking at house and some of my friends have been taking time out of their days and going and looking for me too. I'm still trying to make a dent in what to get rid of and what to keep. Some of the furniture is beautiful expensive furniture we got when were got married and now I can't stand to look at it. So it's going first off.
Ok I don't want to talk anymore about that let's talk about knitting. About the only knitting I have been doing is on a shawl. I will take some pictures of the first one soon. I started a second one Monday night. Nearly all my knitting students are making shawls. We are all giving them away. I have some wonderful knitting students, each of them bring such a great energy to the classes and we have a good time. I look forward to them so much. I can only hope that I give them when what they give to me.
And for those who know Gunther. Gunther is now 21 months old about 127 lbs and maturing into a find boy. His training is on going and he has been the therapy in the world for what we have been going through.
Like I have said before we are moving, some where. We are staying in GA. With Sara's internship at the bakery and GT about to finish homeschool and take his GED, I can't see moving out of state. We have so many friends here and our roots are pretty much dug deep in the red clay of Georgia. We've been looking at house and some of my friends have been taking time out of their days and going and looking for me too. I'm still trying to make a dent in what to get rid of and what to keep. Some of the furniture is beautiful expensive furniture we got when were got married and now I can't stand to look at it. So it's going first off.
Ok I don't want to talk anymore about that let's talk about knitting. About the only knitting I have been doing is on a shawl. I will take some pictures of the first one soon. I started a second one Monday night. Nearly all my knitting students are making shawls. We are all giving them away. I have some wonderful knitting students, each of them bring such a great energy to the classes and we have a good time. I look forward to them so much. I can only hope that I give them when what they give to me.
And for those who know Gunther. Gunther is now 21 months old about 127 lbs and maturing into a find boy. His training is on going and he has been the therapy in the world for what we have been going through.
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