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Always be sweet, to yourself and the world.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Knitting for Charity

  When I was much, much younger, one of my aunts took me for knitting lessons.  I'm sure I didn't fully appreciate it at the time, but now as a stressed out homeschooling mother of five, I love the calm that comes from sitting down with a ball of yarn and the almost mindless repetition of my knitting needles.  Very relaxing.  Anyway, I decided to kill two birds with one stone (not that I would ever kill birds, with a stone or anything else for that matter!) by resurrecting my old knitting skills and doing something of good for others.  I knit up a bunch of scarves and sent them off to a charity called Knit with Love.  This group distributes donated items (scarves, blankets, beanies, and other knitted clothing) to people in need.  I love the sound of that and I can't wait to knit up another box full of items to send off.  I'm going to try my hands at hats next...wish me luck!

posted by The Mom

War in Libya

This war in Libya is for sure an outrage! I think that the only reason there is a big fight there is because probably  people there thought they could get what they wanted like the people in Cairo.  But the people there only got what they wanted from war and many people died because of it. I also realized that people paid some attention to Cairo but to me not as much attention as Libya why? Well I think because that's where all the oil is maybe that's why people are so upset because it cost more for oil shipments and more at the pump. I'll be honest I was always cringing when on the news they would talk about gas going up in fact I still worry but I really must learn to stop. One things for sure though, somethings going to happen good or bad I don't know but I have a feeling it's just the beginning of things.