2 posts tagged “books”
Yesterday, I came home to a mysterious package. Funny, how excited a grown woman can get over a box with her name on it. Weird, even. Anyway, my pictures are kind of sucky, but I think I have the most considerate and thoughtful Secret Pal evah!
She obviously read my blog and picked a box of goodies that is absolutely perfect for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for realizing how badly I want to be a sock knitter and how much my one little sock knitting issue (knitting inside out) is keeping me from that goal. Not only did she include an amazing soft skein of Lana Grossa sock yarn, delicious chocolates (that I've had to hide from my husband and children...the little piggies), some printed instructions for using 2 circulars to prevent knitting inside out, 2 adorable little zippered bags (so, so cute), a bonus Debbie Macomber book, but she also sent me Ann Budd's new Getting Started Knitting Socks. Score!
Really, thanks again. So much. You are awesome.
I didn't get much chance to craft or knit this past week, but I did do some cooking and a lot of reading (among many family-related activities). I'm reading three books right now that I'm really loving. The first is Noah Levine's "Against the Stream," the second is about natural foods by 101cookbooks.com blogger Heidi Swanson, and the last book is called "The Simple Living Guide" and is about volunteer simplicity. All three are movements that I'm really trying to embrace and get my family involved in. I've been studying Buddhism for the last 3 years and really relate to Noah's background and teaching style (he's also in recovery and participated in a similar "scene" when younger). I think a lot of my health and spiritual issues have to do a lot with the crap I put into my body and my obsession with having to have this or that latest and greatest thing. That, in addition to recent medical findings linking food additives to ADHD (which my son has), is really driving me to find easy and simple ways to make my family healthier. The simplicity book is sort of a roadmap for a simpler, less stressful way of life. It's all good stuff. Slow change...that's what I'm looking for. Slow and steady. Both are new words in my vocabulary.
I also updated my dailyish blog today with babble about modern day rural life: fruit smoothies, fresh chicken eggs, and track meets. There are some pictures though. I'm just so punk rock it hurts (now if I could just get my son to stop calling me a frickin' hippie!).
