They grow up so fast

I know that sounds like a cliché but in many ways it feels like the past 18 years have gone by in a nano-second.

Here are my two children, Alice and Max, in 1991, when we first moved to Oregon. Alice was only about six months old in this photo. Seems like yesterday.

*sigh*

If you are a parent of young children, go and hug your child right now. Go. Now. I’ll wait for you. The one thing I wish I had done more, was to hug them and hold them while they were still little. You can never give your child too much love.

This shot was taken in July 2003 and many of you will recognize the famous landmark in the background. It was a warm and dry summer evening and even though Alice hates this photo, it’s one of my favorites.

And this is Max and Alice from two days ago. Yes, Alice is now a high school graduate and I am officially an empty nester. Time for some big adventures…for all of us. With any luck, we’ll have a college graduate by this time next year.

A shout out and big congratulations to a trio of young women who were members of the first graduating class of Union High School in Vancouver, Washington and are now entering the “real world” as my friend Patricia likes to say. From left to right it’s Alice, Gabby and Chelsey. Good Luck to all of you.

So what about knitting? This blog is supposed to be about knitting after all and no, I haven’t forgotten how.

In fact, I finished the May pair of socks and immediately cast on for June’s pair pictured above. They’re the Ribbed Ribbons pattern from Wendy Johnson’s book, Socks from the Toe-Up in lovely Malabrigo sock which I’m enjoying very much. SO utterly soft and stretchy and yummy. The colorway pictured here is #416 “Indiecita”.

Stay tuned. I haven’t given up knitting…not by a long shot! I’m only just starting.