…Joining Ginny’s YarnAlong, sharing what I’m knitting and reading…
…Knitting...
I finished Bracken’s aston hat with the last skein of yarn I had leftover from his birthday sweater. I had just enough yarn to finish it. I made the teen size and it fits. (Ravelry notes here.) It didn’t end up looking exactly like the pattern towards the end, but it turned out really cute! Now he has a “blueberry blue” hat to match his birthday sweater.
…Reading…
I finished reading ‘Protecting The Gift.’ A very valuable read. Two quotes that stood out towards the end were:
“The presence of children- the joy and energy of children- is threatening to those who hate life. Most of all, though, the love of children is threatening to those who do not love themselves.”
(Reading that makes me have more compassion for those who didn’t treat me as I wish they would have when I was a child.)
“To care about children, to invest time in protecting them as you have done, is to believe there is a future. Parents today are writing much of that future, writing the history of the next generation, and just as the sins of the father (and the mother) are visited on the children, so are the acts of parental kindness. Your love outlives you- literally- and moves on through your children.
Given life’s hectic pace, parents who ask the extra question, who take the time to meet their children’s friends, who invest the energy to occasionally insist their reluctant kids compromise for safety, have much to be proud of. They won’t always be popular with other parents, to be sure, or with the school, or with their own kids, but that’s precisely why it can take so much character to listen to intuition.”
(Yes, it takes so much character to listen to intuition and it’s more important than ever that we do so when we become parents.)
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How about you? Knitting? Reading?
Wonderful! He looks like a delicious little blueberry! So adorable
Adorable blue hat! π
I love all of those quotes! It’s so inspiring to us who have (and still are) choosing to raise our children differently than the ‘norm’.
Bracken’s hat turned out super cute!
What a cute hat and the little model is adorable! He looks so cute in blue. And he looks so much like you. I am trying to finish a hat I started knitting on round needles and I hate them. I start getting SO tight that I cannot keep going. So I will try to finish on 2 needles.
The blue hat turned out very nicely.
How cute is that! The color is just heavenly…it really suits your darling boy. π
Wow! I am continually amazed to see how well you knit!! Sounds like a powerful book!!! π
oh my goodness Taryn he looks so cute! what lovely knitting π
Cute hat!
Oh! This is an adorable hat! He looks like a cheeky and happy little gnome in it. I really like the pattern! Lena x
I just went to your blog and it’s amazing what you are doing with those cute little dolls and knitting such tiny little sweaters and hats for them! Just so cute.
Hey! What a darling boy (and hat! and sweater!)!! And I really loved the quotes you shared- I’ve put a request in at the library for that book just now- thank you.
Just popping over from Ginny’s YA…so glad I did! ~Rebecca
adorable!!! both the hat and the model!!
Oh it turned out so cute!