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 After we dropped my daughter off at school, and managed to survive the last few days, we 'took it easy'.   Usually our lazy days are on Sunday.  They aren't really lazy days, but since we are doing something different from the usual it seems that way. On Saturday, though, we just had an actual lazy day. We slept in and basically sat around the living room watching Netflix.  I did some prep work for school, which starts tomorrow, and we did our regular chores that must be done, like feeding animals and milking goats.  The rest of the time we just sat on our asses.  It was lovely. We made arrangements for a video chat tomorrow afternoon with the girl child.  I want to pretend that she's excited to talk to us, but I'm thinking she's more happy about seeing the cats. Before she left, she asked for a blanket.  Specifically a blanket that I make.  In blue and pink squares.  So I've off and on been looking into a blanket pattern and an ea...

 A few days ago, we dropped our youngest off for her Freshman year of college. It was pretty rough, and I guess I'm still processing. Because of Covid, we weren't allowed much time in her dorm with her, and I think her own anxiety was really high, so we didn't do all of the stuff that was planned.  Plus I was crying before we even got to the point where we were leaving. The last I saw of her, she was standing in her dorm room, peeking out of the door watching me walk to the stairs. That hurt. I sat outside the hall, in my mask, crying while I waited for my husband to make his way back around. While she is mourning being away from home for a far more extended time than she's ever been, she's also not just sitting around.  She's been doing classes here at home for a while, so she's continuing on with that, but I guess she's also making friends around the dorm, which is great.  None of her good friends are there with her, but she's made some friends in ...

 I literally have 4 posts in my drafts that say the same damn thing in them.  They're all just started on different days after different things had happened to keep me from actually posting them.   In the interim, I've actually finished the shawl I was working on that was the focus of all of those posts, so here's a post about it and the reveal! I finally got the desire to actually knit something.  Since the holidays, there have been several false starts on projects that are in various stages of 'the beginning' or have just been undone.  This one, though, I got pretty far on and when I did put it down, I actually picked it back up. To be completely honest, there were a few false starts on this project itself, as I figured out what I wanted to do and what yarn I wanted to use.   My biggest hurdle was discovering that my swift is missing.  I had a nice cushy set up in the back that quickly, when I stopped 'working' on my business, became the bl...