Sometimes life is busy. Sometimes deadlines are overwhelming. And you get a little lost in it all. You forget to look for the magic.
And other days this happens:
And when it does, you remember that life is abundance.
You breathe in and see it’s one big circle.
You breathe out and remember we’re all here to spiral upward, one lesson at a time.
You breathe in and know this is one of those lessons.
You breathe out…
That’s all.
Seriously, that’s all.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Our beautiful disaster. I give you the strom-pizza: The horror It started this morning with a cheery, “Let’s make pizza for lunch!” John looked dubious, but I was already measuring the flour. I had a funny feeling that I interpreted as, “I used the wrong yeast.” But…
John’s rainbow scarf is coming along! It’s about 1/3 done. No pattern here. Just knitting and purling until he’s happy with it. FYI, we will be skipping green. John hates green. I’m working on my flicking technique, and so far I’ve more or less got it down on the knit side. Purl not so much….
And all this time, the garden has been doing its thing. Gardening might be my favorite kind of magic because you do all the work up front. Then, one day, you go outside to enjoy the nice weather and surprise! You have veggies. It’s been raining a lot where we are, and the weather turned…
The knitting fairy stopped by and she had my new yarn and teeny tiny circular knitting needles! Socks, here we come! Squee!
After the horror that was Strom-pizza, John suggested that I try again with instant yeast, so I did. And woo-eeeee! The dough turned out great! The recipe I used said it makes 4 dough balls. We used two for making our pizzas and froze the other two. Once we tried it, we thought maybe we…
Welcome to the dark side of making things. These size 1 needles are so tiny. And what do I do with this stupid cable? And why does my work have a big bare string of yarn in it? I’ve watched 16 YouTube videos called “Getting Started with Magic Loop!” and it’s 11 pm and I…