Sara + h

a day of my own

After seven days of solo parenting, Dan's [mere] return from England two Sundays ago, while very much welcomed, wasn't enough to buoy my waning spirits and flagging parenting abilities.  And so last Friday I asked for and received my first day off in what I can honestly say has been years.

I'd planned on taking copious pictures and documenting every detail of the day but in the end, I simply (and wisely) enjoyed my time alone.  What a luxury to have nobody but myself to be responsible for.  I had the enviable pleasure of visiting both a thrift and yarn store alone .  I even got to spend over an hour without interuption sipping a mocha, knitting, and eavesdropping on other peoples conversations (a most favorite of pastimes) in my preferred cafe.  Truly devine.

I must do this more often.

seeing patterns

A simple idea... time spent thinking... time spent knitting... a little more thinking and knitting... writing...  Hoping the sum of all this will equal something folks are willing to pay a few dollars for.  We'll see.  I'll be looking for a few test knitters in the not too distant future.  I'll let you know when the time comes.

outtakes

I don't like every picture I take.  In fact, I don't like most of the pictures I take.  The vast majority get deleted immediately because they're blurry or poorly framed or just plain bad or "not right" in some other way.  Some though, I sit on the fence about.  They don't get used for their intended purpose but there's something that makes me keep them around in iPhoto, at least for awhile.

Here are a few of those pictures, outtakes from Color Week.  Not what I was looking for or wanted or what turned out best, but not all together awful either.

Does anyone else look at these and think the world must be tilting to the left?

 

colorweek :: red

colorweek :: knitting mushroom :: red

colorweek :: yellow

colorweek :: rubber duck :: yellow

colorweek :: pink

colorweek :: dress-up skirt :: pink

colorweek :: green

colorweek :: San Pellegrino :: green

colorweek :: turquoise

colorweek :: vintage Czech glass buttons :: black, green, & turquoise

"i miss him already"

Dan left for a week in England this afternoon.  I always ache for him the first few days he's away, especially when he's out of the country and feels so remote.  As the girls and I stood on the stoop and watched the cab wisk him off to the airport Lola looked at me and said, "I miss him already."  You're not the only one, kiddo.  You're not the only one.

p.s.a.

Thank you for all the lovely comments of late.  I've been wretched about responding but did want to say that I've read and appreciate them all.   Things are going to remain spotty on the email front for at least another week since Dan will be out of the country and I'll be parenting solo, but I hope to become more vigilant about writing back shortly life returns to a more normal state.