still

In this crazy season of GO and DO and GIVE and PREPARE (While I’m speaking specifically about Christmas, the sentiment could also apply to our current season of parenting), I find myself craving still moments. Tiny bits of space in my day. Silence.

More and more I am turning to creating as a way of making that space. Sometimes it’s knitting, others it’s taking pictures and hopefully soon it will be sewing (if I can ever find enough time to gather all of my supplies and get to work!). This month I learned how to knit in the round and have been making hat after hat after hat. There is something so soothing about the rhythmic click of my needles, counting stitches in my head, the yarn slipping through my fingers. After only a few stitches I can feel myself breathing a little more slowly. Even with all of my children playing around me, I can lose myself for just a minute in a round.

When my kids are doing this

the counter looks like this

and my dining room table looks like this

I can pretend it’s all good and just do this

which ends up looking something like this

Loving those moments of still!

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