The Heathen Housewife

So, like everyone else and their dog, I’m finally creating my very own little blog. I’m not making any promises about how often I’ll update, and I’ll warn you up front that it may not be the most exciting place on the web. But here goes…

A little bit about me: I am Shelly. For almost a year now, I’m also Mommy to one wonderful little girl by the name of Julie. For over three years now, I’ve been the wife to a pretty awesome guy by the name of Joe. I do a lot of knitting – although that page is a little out of date. I don’t know how I’m supposed to keep up with a blog when I can’t even keep up with the web pages I already have. I even teach knitting and design knitwear.

What you’re likely to find here: Not much nudity or steamy personal info. Sorry. I’ll probably talk about Julie a lot. I’m really into attachment parenting, cloth diapering, making healthy food for Julie to eat, and generally being the best mom I can figure out how to be. I’ll probably talk about my current knitting projects, and I’m hoping that having a blog will motivate me to get current pictures up. Good luck. I’ll probably talk about the Minnesota Knitter’s Guild since I’m on the Board of Directors. Actually, I’m procrastinating right now on organizing the State Fair booth we’re hosting next week. More on that later, I’m sure. I don’t know what else. I guess you’ll have to wait and see.

Today – Julie and I went to our first La Leche League meeting. I’ve had the local meeting on my calendar since I was pregnant. It’s the fourth Tuesday of every month at 10:00 in the morning. Somehow, this was the first time that it’s worked out for us to go. Usually, morning naptime falls somewhere around 10:00, and that is a big culprit. Other times, we’ve had other things to do and places to go, or to be honest, I forget that it’s happening till it’s over. Anyway, we had an okay time. I ended up giving advice to some of the newer moms as Julie was one of the oldest kids in the group. The cool thing about going to a group like this is that most of the moms are into attachment parenting, and it’s great to hear other people having the same issues as we are and dealing with them in the same general way. I have a lot of really great friends with young kids, but almost none of them are great to talk to about parenting issues in much detail because our approaches are so wildly different. More on that later.

This afternoon was pretty quiet. There was the burnt pasta incident which left the house smelling funky – Joe said it smelled like B.O. when he came home. We took a walk over to Walgreens and down to the park.

Here are the things I should be doing right now:

• Sorting out knit samples for the State Fair booth.
• Finish catching up on Julie’s scrapbook – only a couple more pages to go and I want to have it up-to-date before her birthday party.
• Clean up my office so I can actually walk across the floor.
• Go spend some quality time with my husband, who is sitting on the couch doing his fantasy football draft.

Other things I feel like I could talk about but don’t have the time and energy right now:

• My conflicted relationship with scrapbooking. I think it is a slippery slope into a huge time-waster and tacky use of creative energy. I like to keep things very simple and hope that I won’t look at the pages in 1, 2, 5 or 10 years and say “Blech! What was I thinking?” But, I want to keep all the pictures organized and in a fun, easy format for looking at because I love looking at pictures and I think Julie might like to as she grows up as well. I don’t have many of my childhood pics because my evil parents never let me have them. So I guess I’m making up for it a little bit by doing this for her.
• My current interest in knitting on my home knitting machine. As soon as I get the current scrapbooking project out of the way, I’m setting it back up and knitting up my first sweater on it. So far, I’ve only done super-simple stuff, and this will be an adventure. I’ve also been watching used knitting machines on e-bay and thinking about getting another one. Probably more on that later.
• My recent experience with Maclaren strollers and how I managed to trade in my broken jogger-type Mac 3 piece of junk for a snazzy new Techno XT which so far seems much better.
• All the cool stuff that I’ve been knitting lately. I really must get pictures up, although a lot of it is at the State Fair at the moment and I didn’t take pictures first. I just finished a Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf that was so easy I could have done it blindfolded, but turned out very nicely.

Okay, I really do need to get some other stuff done. Hopefully someone will eventually find my blog and decide that we share enough common interests to come back. Thanks for reading!

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