Getting Back On Board

Yes, I have been a bit off, and not completely sure why.

I can round up the usual suspects.

My new old job is real work, and that’s different than what it was before. I am not minding it in the least, but that takes more…of everything. I might have had the opportunity to pay a bill online, or check out a pattern on Ravelry, or catch up on a blog or two (or three) before. Not. So. Now. I am not complaining. I am loving the challenge, but it takes adjustment.

Next in the line-up is the 300+ miles of commuting on the bike. All good there, too, but still. Pasted when I get home. Not a lot of vim, vigor, and vitality to jump right into deadheading the yard, or watering plants, or really much else except for getting out of sweaty clothes and into a glass of ice tea…and checking email, because I certainly haven’t done that at work.

Following those two would be Grandbebe Two’s quilt. Opal is due to arrive on the scene in about 3 weeks. I believe I moved the hoop for the last time last week. I have been quilting the edge sashing as I go, so when the quilting is done, there will only be the edge to fold over and stitch down. But there has been nothing else going on, but quilting quilting quilting. While I am pleased with the results, and very gratified with the pending accomplishment of perhaps it being done before Opal’s entrance, still, is that all there is, my friend….

No, it is not. There is another quilt lurking upstairs, ready to be sewn! And Dearest Sister?…she is all about starting another, just to be prepared.

There is also the idea that it is almost the end of July. I had such a good weekend when all the Offspring gathered here in our fair state to whoop it up a bit, the bebe shower for Grandbebe Trois (with a little surprise shower for Grandbebe Two!), and enjoyed some mountain time. And yet. Yet! Going…going….and summer will gone, and I don’t know where for sure. I have a list, and again, all good, full-up, pleasing to the heart…but almost GONE!

What I have come up with, but have not yet fully adjusted to, is the required adapting to ever-changing life. If I do not, I am going to see all the good stuff, watch it pass me by…and not be quite there for it, as I want really truly to be.