What I’m Reading Now

I definitely feel like I’ve been struggling this year with the motivation to read. Last year I finished 30 books so I set myself the goal of having read 35 by the end of the year. I checked today and I’ve read... 6. Pitiful. My husband slipped this book in my Easter basket, and I felt just the thing to get me back into my groove is an easy romance.

It’s been an enjoyable read so far. I like that I don’t have to think too much and it’s easy to get back into the story when I’ve put it down for awhile. It’s the story of two empty nesters who find romance in unexpected places. Very predictable but comforting- the perfect quarantine read, to be sure.

I have never been much of an audiobook person, but I’m finding now that I’m working from home I like to listen to them in the background while tending to some easier tasks. I also have been listening while doing housework and going for a run. I just finished A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, and promptly picked up Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Perry. I really enjoyed A Night to Remember- I’ve been a Titanic buff since the movie came out in ‘98- and Ghosts of the Tsunami is heartbreaking. It’s the story of the survivors of the huge tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.

I ordered The Nightingale and Where The Crawdads sing, and I can’t wait until I get those in from Amazon.

What have you been reading recently?

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An update

I finished the blanket I was working on, which immediately got hijacked and checked for coziness by my children. I put that one down in the tent in their playroom, for a cozy place for them to read and chill out. I’ve never knitted a hat before, but I’m making a search for the Elf Hat from the Harry Potter knitting book I got ages ago but have been too chicken to try anything from. I had to improvise with the yarn since they’ve discontinued the recommended yarn, but it’s knitting up beautifully and I’m really loving it. It’s Lions Brand yarn, which I love. Once I check the gauge I’m hoping to be able to cast on this week. There’s another hat I have my eyes on that’s actually knitted in the round, but I don’t have everything I need for that one yet. Once I have that, I’m hoping to make it for myself. I’m hoping they’re quick knits. I hear hats tend to knit fast and go under ‘instant gratification’, but we’ll see.

Busy knitting weekend

I consider a weekend a bust if it doesn’t include some hard-core knitting time. I finished A Novel Idea , which I immediately threw into the children’s playroom after weaving in the ends. It’s fuzzy and a bit too short to be an adult’s scarf. I’m also working on Little Boy’s Scarf , which I’m planning to give to my boy for Christmas. (It’s hard to believe we’re already at the time of year where we have to plan for that, isn’t it?) I think this scarf makes us look like much more fanatic Ohio State fans than we actually are. Tomorrow, my needles and yarn are supposed to come in to knit House Elf’s hat , so sometimes this week I’ll need to swatch it up. In reading news, I’m reading Outlander. The book makes little sense but I’m definitely enjoying it, in a way that makes me morbidly curious to find out what happens next. So, on to the mounds of laundry I’ve got to catch up on, and to get caught up on the other things I’ve fallen woefully behind on.

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For once in my life, I believe I have all my Christmas knitting done... before Christmas. I just have a few ends to weave in, but that shouldn’t take long. My son’s scarf. I honestly thought I’d never finish it. I had planned to make it twice as long until my husband reminded me that he’s really only three feet tall, but I still think it’s short. If it is, I’ll whipstitch it and make a cowl. I went back to the Elf Hat I’d been working on. It seems majorly huge and I’m not sure how it’ll work once seamed up, but either I can’t measure heads or I totally misunderstood gauge, or it’s really supposed to be this huge: It just seems impossibly ginormous, doesn’t it? Oh well. I’ll figure something out, even if I have to give it away to an adult with a huge head. ;) I think I mostly have Christmas figured out. All I have to do is wrap a few more gifts and do some baking, and my part is done. Although it’s been a crazy month, for once in my mom life I sh...

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