- 4:40-6:30 a.m. - Walk on treadmill, knit/read/listen to podcasts or audiobook
- 6:30-7:00 a.m. - Shower/dress
- 7:00-8:20 a.m. - Get kids all ready, clean up kitchen/pick up house/run laundry
- 8:20-9:15 a.m. - Get kids off to school (which means put Luke on his bus to the school across town, get Alicia off to her bus or drive Alicia to school when she's on crossing guard duty, take Ben to preschool when he has it)
- 9:15-11:15 a.m. - Work (or volunteer at schools when I'm scheduled)
- 11:15-11:45 a.m. - Pick Ben up from preschool/blog/clean up/laundry
- 11:45-1:30 p.m. - Lunch/laundry/clean up/knit/watch Knitty Gritty
- 1:30-3:30 p.m. - Work
- 3:30-4:00 p.m. - Clean up/await the arrival of Luke and Alicia
- 4:00 p.m. - Pick Alicia up at school when she's on crossing guard duty/leave for Buffalo (on Thursdays when Luke has occupational and speech therapy)
- 4:00-5:45 p.m. - On Thursdays, sit in the van and knit or read while Luke is at therapy (otherwise known as trying very hard to resist the temptation to fondle yarn at Silver Creek Cabin); on every other day, figure out what to feed the herd/clean up/laundry
- 5:45-7:00 p.m. - Clean up after dinner/dishes/homework/pick up/laundry
- 7:00-bedtime - Sit like a lump in my spot on the sectional (the chaise part!) with a pillow behind my back and knitting on my lap.
I'm really going to try to stick to this. The one thing I know is that I need my little bit of alone time each morning and my time in the evening to stay intact. I have to knit. It's like breathing and it keeps me somewhat sane, although that isn't likely to happen until I get a handle on the disarray of my home.
Anyway, knitting-wise, I realized yesterday that I was one month away from the second deadline I've given myself for completing the Ombre Alpaca (Acrylic) Blanket. November 10 is my brother's birthday and I am gunning for having it in his condo in the Bronx by that date. I'm 3" from joining sleeves and body to begin the yoke of the Cable Yoke Pullover. It is going to take an extraordinary amount of restraint on my part to set the pullover aside and finish the blanket. It would take next to no time to finish that sleeve and get going on the yoke, but I know that if I did that now, I would never be able to put it down until it was finished. I need something subliminal, chanting the words "Blanket first, the Pullover will wait". Here's where I am now:
I have two colors of yarn left and I cannot miss my second deadline for this blanket! Ahhhhhh, help me!
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