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What a wonderful...

If you had the opportunity to start your life over, would you take it? I'm not talking about regrets and whatnots. I mean, pack up and leave for a new city/province/country. Would you go for it or stay in the area you always grew up in? See, I like to think about how would it be somewhere new? I often see blogs where people talk about moving for work, for love, for family. Me, it would be none of those, well... Already I checked out the skating club in that city, they have one and it looks really well organized from what I saw on their website. Yarn stores aren't really popular though so that would be a big change.... but great for my wallet.

I guess I wonder what would life be if... there are so many possibilities elsewhere. So much history, either good or bad is attached to this city, I can only imagine how freeing it must be to leave that all behind. Start new, start fresh without expectations from anyone else other than myself. That said, I do think about the effects it could/would have on the kids. So I wonder...

Recently, I went to my lovely LYS Ariadne Knits with the kids. As tradition goes, if the kids step into a yarn store with me, they usually come out with yarn for them. I made the promise to knit each kid a pair of socks for our trip to Ottawa in less than two weeks... Call me crazy I like deadlines. LOL! It's funny to see what yarns or colourways appeal to them. I was shocked to see my daughter choose a solid sock yarn (then she even chose a stitch pattern she liked!) and my son went with something I would have never chose. Hey, whatever rocks their boat. I love that smaller socks mean quick turnaround, I rarely get single sock syndrome when I knit for the kids. Also they appreciate handknits SO much, it really is a joy to knit them projects.

After constantly being pressure by nice new spinners, I sat at my spinning wheel and tried it out! Shocking, I KNOW! Why, oh why did I fear it so much? It seems so silly now but I was terrified to try it out. Let's just say that those days are gone, now I want to spin all the time. It's funny to see how much one can achieve even when totally clueless about what one is actually doing. lol! I just tried spinning true roving (fibers going in all ways) and it is totally different than working with prepared (combed) top. I just can't wait to try out different fibers!

Last week, our little family went to the Botanical Garden to see spring in action. The tulips weren't opened yet but we got to see many more flowers growing outside. We love to go walk around the Garden grounds as there's always something to see, we didn't even go in the greenhouses. What's fun is that although we are in the heart of the city, walking around makes you feel elsewhere. I forget everything else and just enjoy the views of all that is around me. There's a small lake and we saw a daycare group having a snack near the ducks. It's just soooo relaxing to walk along the trails. We had a terrific day.

Expect yet more socks over the next season. I joined the Summer of Socks knit-along.

Posted by Jo at May 6, 2008 11:19 AM