A mother of three is always thinking about at least 5 things at once. What's going on at the present moment with each of the kids, what she has to do next, and what she is doing currently. It's exhausting to keep that much straight, and we drop a ball a lot, especially if those three kids are young and disrupt her sleep on a regular basis.
I didn't realize just how much I do in any given day until I went away for a weekend. About half-way through the weekend I suddenly realized why I was so relaxed. I only had to think about 1 or 2 things at a time! We had only two appointments the whole weekend -- the start of the wedding on Saturday and the start of church on Sunday. We had minimal luggage and our own rental car. So we could move fast and with little advance planning.
Turns out, taking knitting on board a commercial aircraft is a piece of cake. Security screening was a lot slower than I expected - the lines were way longer than I thought for an early early Saturday morning! When we finally got to the screeners, I had no trouble getting my knitting needles through security. However, they did inspect my scissors to make sure they had round tips, not pointed ones.
Scott had our suitcase, and he got stopped. After going through all the pockets and the clothes (I was SO glad I packed all my loose items, underwear, etc in ziplock bags so my stuff didn't get totally messed up), they finally fished around my makeup bag and dug up an old pair of haircutting scissors I had forgotten about. Those were a no-go. I had three options: go back out to the entrance of the airport and mail the scissors to myself, check the suitcase with the scissors inside, or leave them with security to be destroyed. We didn't have time to mail them. We didn't want to check the bag. The scissors were old and cheap. So we left them behind and hurried to our gate where the plate had just opened up boarding to all rows.
We had a smooth flight, but I didn't pull out my knitting because this super-skinny girl sat by the window, pulled the shades down, buried herself in her parka, and slept the whole way. She pulled her hood down over her eyes so you couldn't tell if there was a person inside! I didn't think it was THAT cold. But I really didn't want to wake her up by accidentally jabbing her with the end of a knitting needle. So I read.
We decided to go into the city once we got our rental car. We walked around and were pleasantly surprised to find the area a very quiet, peaceful, freak-free area place. They have been very strict about enforcing a no-panhandling rule. It was really nice to just walk with no schedule.
We arrived at the wedding location exactly when the invitation said music was to start. It was clear immediately that they were still setting up. So we wandered around the hotel for half an hour, then checked back. Still not ready. 15 minutes later, we finally were able to sit down. We waited. And waited. And waited.
Finally, the groom's aunt came out and told this woman in front of us that some bridesmaids still weren't there.
What???? It was 45 minutes after the wedding was supposed to start! She went on to say that some bridesmaids never did show up to a wedding shower they had!
Eventually everyone showed up and the wedding started an hour after it was supposed to. Turns out the missing members of the wedding party were an entire family -- the best man, the matron of the honor, a junior bridesmaid, and a junior groomsman (or whatever you call them!). Guess they couldn't have gone on without them....
The rest of the weekend was awesome. I did some knitting in free moments here and there, gave the Yankees booties to my friends (the husband LOVED them -- he's a huge Yankees fan), and caught up with a bunch of people we hadn't seen in years. It was so amazing to meet people who had been praying for Big Girl for 5 years and didn't even know us. It was just so great to spend some time just the two of us. And then it was great to come home and get a huge bear hug from Big Boy, a grin from Big Girl, and head butts from Little Girl (who wanted to nurse). :)
I didn't get the Yankees hat done in time. It's done now though, and I'm hoping to take a photo before I mail it to them. The logo turned out ok. I wasn't quite sure how to make it work with the decreases in the hat, so it's a little narrow and it's a little low on the hat -- I would make the rolled part wider and move the logo up if I did it again.
I went shopping at my friend's yarn store (hee hee - I guess the real owners might not like it that I refer to it that way!) and bought my first pair of circular needles! I also found some really cute yarn for a hat and mittens for Big Girl for Christmas. I'm really excited to start that project. I also got fabric to finish up a Christmas gift I'm working on. Then I heard on the radio that Christmas is something like 43 days away! Yipes! I better get busy!
