Purely hypothetical question:

Your son is married to a woman who dislikes you, disparages you, and keeps your son away from family events while married. Your son’s wife leaves your son for another man. Slanders your son to anyone that will listen. Misrepresents her income to get more child support than she deserves. Continues to collect alimony even though she makes as much money as your son so that she lives on FOUR times as much per month as your son. Forbids her family from keeping a relationship with your son, but maintains a relationship with his family. When her relationship doesn’t work out tries to sabotage his next relationship.  And then when she finally finds a guy that will marry her, invites you to the wedding.   Do you,

A. Tell her where she can get off.

B. Politely decline.

C. Politely decline and send a card.

D. Happily accept and offer to bake cookies for the reception and then continue to be puzzled as to why your son is hurt.

I finished a pair of fingerless mitts.  These are to replace a pair of fingerless mitts that had been destroyed by a visiting dog. I started with this pattern and made them a little longer. I also added length and a cuff to the thumb. The yarn is Malabrigo. I’ve made a few of these mitts and finally got to make a pair for me! The yarn was dreamy and so soft.  It was my first time working with Malabrigo, and my first time working with a single. That was a little odd, I kept wanting to put more twist in the strand. The softness more than made up for any strangeness. I received more Malabrigo as a gift and I can’t wait to make something else.  I’m thinking a hat.

The next finish is a pair of socks for my mother. I brought them along on Park City trip as car knitting. I only had the cuffs left to do. When I got them out I was surprised to find that I had finished one sock already and had only the cuff of the other left to do. I hope to finish these today and get them in the mail.

I hoped to get them into the mail before this but things got so busy.  I’m already late for her birthday so I may as well wait and add them into the Christmas box.  Which will also probably be late cuz that’s how I roll.  It’s a plain, toe-up sock pattern made with this yarn in the Thyme colorway.

There are so many things I could write about my mother. She was a stay at home mom, something I didn’t appreciate when I was little and living at home. She was a tennis player and won many trophies in her local league. To my sorrow, I’ve never watched her play a game. When I went off to college she sent many cards, often more than one a week. She came to visit and help out when each of my children were born, something I hope to be able to do for my daughters. I married and move out of state when I 19 years old and all the things that I didn’t appreciate slapped me upside the head right away. I’ve spent more years out of her house than in it and have missed her so much. Not just the things she did for us, but I missed just being around her. I’m so grateful to have been able to visit so often these last two years.  She’s an amazing woman and I love her dearly.

Happy Birthday Mom! Enjoy yours socks, they’ll be done and off in the mail tomorrow 🙂