Showing posts with label i have a dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label i have a dream. Show all posts

Friday, 29 July 2016

Summer #3

This is the third summer now of moving back and forth. Living in sparsely furnished houses, without the vast majority of our own things. I don't have anything new to say about it really. A new city to explore this year which I am stubbornly resisting learning how to navigate. The usual.


I feel the more children I have and the more often I go through this the less energy I have to care, or to put into trying new things. It's a terrible attitude, I'm well aware. But I am a home body. I am a creature of habit if there ever was one. I like routine. I like the same places and the same things. I like knowing what I'm doing and being comfortable doing it. I like being home. I like knowing where all my stuff is, and the days of having all our own things readily available, building flowerbeds and gardens and driveways and horse sheds seem far behind us.

I sound awful boring, don't worry, I'm well aware. 




The kids of course adjust much better than myself. Give them some room outside to play, some goldfish crackers, and some Paw Patrol and I'm pretty sure they'd happily live anywhere. We have a little 5$ blowup pool from walmart that they happily splash in all afternoon long, they don't need much, despite me sitting here looking at play structures and swing sets on pinterest. I hope I'm doing alright with them. I do try now and then, I really do. They seem pretty happy most of the times anyway.


Birthday "happy cakes" to celebrate our William

I sit and dream sometimes of things we will do when "real life" starts, and I need to slow down and remind myself that this is real life. Right now. The babies are growing and football is exciting and these moment won't happen again. Days filled with land developing and fence building and flower bed tending, they'll happen again.




Thursday, 22 October 2015

A Confession: I have a (little) dream

Am I allowed to have dreams and aspirations as a mama? It almost feels like during these young years of my children's life I shouldn't.

But I do.

I have been knitting. And knitting. And knitting. And people tell me I should sell some of my stuff, and here's my confession:

I want to.



First of all, I really enjoy doing it. Second of all, it's not exactly a cheap hobby and would be nice if it started paying back even a little. And third, it appears my living room is starting to drown under pom pom toques that really deserve a home.

I have been struggling however with mixed feelings on the whole endeavor. Do I really have enough time to do this? What if I invest a bunch of time and money and nothing really comes of it? (I guess in that case everyone can just expect knitwear gifts from me for the next 20 years). Should I be dedicating this time to my family instead?


I'm feeling it hard as a mama to know how much time to give to myself. You're told it's important to do. You yearn for it. But the other day I got out of the house for an hour to go to Starbucks to enjoy a coffee and work on some patterns, and pretty much as soon as I sat down with my pumpkin spice latte, I missed my boys. I missed my husband. The freedom felt nice yes, but at the same time I missed my men. Talk about inner conflict.

They clearly suffer without me. 
Keith sent me this adorable picture of Sam while they were at the park and I was enjoying alone-coffee-time. How am I not supposed to miss them?!

All the same though, I would like to try this little dream of mine on for size. It appears to have become a little passion project of mine, and nothing beats doing something for the joy of doing it right? I'm gladly taking all knitting requests (littlespruceknits@gmail.com) and hope to officially open little spruce knits on etsy soon!
 


Shameless plug: you can keep up with my knitting adventure pictures on Instagram @littlespruceknits

stay warm. stay cozy.

xx

Anna