Happy New Year everyone, I hope it brings you lots of challenging (but not too challenging) knitting! I haven’t knit a stitch since I finished Mum’s christmas socks, and I haven’t wanted to. Isabelle starts preschool this week though, and I am supposed to go with her, which I suspect will be a complete waste of my time as she is so independent already and may be a little startled at my not leaving immediately as she is accustomed to with Daycare. So I am expecting to start knitting again at preschool. Jaywalkers, I think. In the mean time I have been trying to figure out what to blog about on my knitting blog if I am not knitting….

2005 was a long hard year for us, mercifully with a very happy ending. Writing that last sentence I first typed “with a very happy knitting”, which is also true. The knitting, the blogging about it, the reading about it, the friends I have made, all of these things helped me through the last year. I don’t know if I would have stayed sane without them. Thank you all.

I think the knitting may continue to be a little thin on the ground in the four to six weeks ahead. I will be slowly weaning off of most of the drugs I am on during that time and I am sincerely hoping to feel better by the end of that process - because I have a LOT of knitting to do before July! Before June in fact, as two dear friends are due four weeks ahead of me. Winter babes all of them…. So I plan to knit the Jaywalkes in January and I hope to get serious with the baby knitting very soon after - blankets, hats, cardigans. Amazing how I can be so excited by the idea and so not interested in starting now, that’s early pregnancy for you.

I think 2006 is going to be a good year for us, I hope it is for you too.