A Knitted Garden

All the mothers in Miss Daffodil's Parent/Toddler class got together to exchange pieces to make a Knitted Garden. The first time I saw the concept I was in love with it. Mine is very simple, but I am okay with that. At least it's done! There are some gardens I found online which are absolutely beautiful!

If I do it over again, I think I might do it just like this one.

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I'm almost embarrassed to show mine! There are things about the one that I made for my girls, though, that I love.

I love that the big blue "ocean" is the first square I ever knitted, with it's holes and all! And I especially love the brown square that I turned into a "log".

Nature Cures

It feels like we've been bouncing-off-the-walls-busy lately! We went camping in Sequoia National Park- which was both awesome and exhausting- and then dealt with one sickness after another, with family guests in between. Today felt like the first day in a long while in which we could get back into a semi-regular schedule, even though I was the one who was now under the weather and felt like doing nothing but staying in bed. So, as we tried to get back into normalcy, as always seems to happen, my Daffodil rebelled! All day all I heard was, "What should I do?" or whining to watch T.V. It was exacerbating!

I finally pulled myself together enough to go outside- which hasn't been very enjoyable much here in Southern California because of the heat- and clean up the yard at just about dinner time! And within several minutes, I was reminded how curing Nature can be, especially for little children! My little Anne, who is 7 months old today, was completely entertained by natures quiet movements, and I am always okay with babies eating a little dirt. And Miss Daffodil, for the first time today, was enthralled with a quiet activity by herself and the roly-polies. It was the kind of play that I am always so careful to never interupt, and kick myself when I do.

It wasn't anything fancy. It wasn't an ocean. It wasn't a forest. It was just a little spot of dirt for her to dig. She was in her moment, at one with the Earth.

Ahhhhhh... I can breathe :)