Aug 27 2008
New Wheels, New Yarn, New House
It looks like I have been on a bit of a Summer break from blogging. First with the trip to the US for a month and then back home where a few days of resting turned into a few weeks. The weather here has been decidely un-summer like which means that I have been laid flat by the cold and damp. My body simply rebels in this weather. Last week my oldest had surgery on her foot, which is the continuation of a saga that started back in June. A trip to the doctor today tells us that it isn’t over quite yet. We are a matched set of hobblers now. I hope that soon I will be the only one in the family to lay claim to that title. It bites seeing your kid in pain.
School starts in a week so it is now time to start looking back on the summer and sharing some highlights. It started off quite wonderfully with my youngest brother’s wedding. It was so much fun to see friends and family that I have not seen in a long time (some since I was a child) and to meet new people that I am lucky to now call family. My family - the one for which I call myself mother - stood still in the same place long enough to get our picture taken. A feat that has not been accomplished in a very very long time. It makes my heart swell to see how my daughters are all growing so much. Even my baby is no longer a baby. And it’s good to know that we all clean up nicely. Living rurally like we do that is also a rare occurence.
Once back from the trip, as I mentioned earlier, I have been pretty much sidelined by my health. It is something that I am still coming to grips with. I have come a long way in the past several months in accepting where things are, but it still is quite raw with me. One thing that I have had to accept is that walking more than a few meters at a time is a thing of the past for me. This has meant that I have been more or less housebound for some time, and when I did venture out it meant days of pain for having over done it. On our holiday we rented a wheelchair and it opened back up parts of life that I had not seen for such a long time. So it was decided that I needed to get some wheels of my own in an effort to get out more. Since I don’t have the energy to be wheeling myself around I chose to get a mobility scooter so that I could get out without needing an attendant. My new wheels arrived on what was lucky enough to be a sunny day.
My maiden voyage on it was to the park with my youngest who has been trapped at home with me. We took a side trip further into the village to our local yarn shop and I treated myself to a skein of sock yarn. I cast on Monkey from Knitty Winter 06 a couple nights ago and have been joyously rediscovering the fun of sock knitting. I had been jonesing for a good sock knit for quite some time and am thrilled to have finally given in to the urge.
This weekend we are moving into a new house, which is something we are all looking forward to. The new house has a real kitchen, unlike our current house which has a closet masquerading as one. We just moved into this house 6 months ago and were less than thrilled to learn that the landlord was selling so soon afterwards, but it has turned out for the best and we have been looking forward to the move all summer. Unfortunately we will be without internet for a week minium, so I will be AWOL again. But when it is back up I promise - for real promise - that I will be back and posting regularly again. I promise!
5 responses so far
The picture of your family is beautiful! I wish I could get all of mine together, in one place and all clean at the same time. *rolls eyes* lol
I didn’t know you had health problems? I must have started reading you after this occurred…what’s up? Whatever it is, I hope you’re feeling better soon but cool score on the scooter so, at least, now you can get out and about!
It’s good to see you writing…you are missed.
I do love the picture of my family. Going to get a print of it and a nice frame.
I have fibromyalgia which I was diagnosed with roughly 18 years ago. I managed/coped pretty well with it until about a year ago when it went rapidly down hill. If you dig around in the archives you will see there are a bunch of posts that are either about this or make reference to it. I am really bad at tagging things, but in my tag cloud fibromyalgia is second only in size to knitting. If I went through and properly tagged everything it would probably be the biggest. So, nope. Not really new.
Have you ordered a new basket and handlebar streamers for the scooter yet? Because as useful as it is, it just needs some serious flair. Maybe one of those skull-and-knitting-needle decals for the front, too.
Katie, I think that your new yarn looks amazingly scrummy and your new get-around looks great! The joys of mobility after pain. My sister is discovering that as well (did I ever tell you my sister has Fibromyalgia as well?) with her newest digs and her 5 kiddos. :)
Can’t wait to see pictures of your new house. Much love from across the ocean.
Love Val
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