When Things Step Between You and Your Plans

So I am not the best at blogging. I will be the first to admit. I had the most perfect intentions of writing on this blog every week and it being my baby. As you can see that hasn't happened. Life has a way of stepping in and make even the most brilliant of plans fall through.

I have been trying still to make our apartment a home and save pennies to someday have a house to call our own. Then of course our bearded dragon needed emergency surgery and 800 some dollars later a lot of our hard work to save went down the drain in one very stressful evening. We are still saving little by little and making budgets and plans to save as much as we can. The new year for a new start.

I haven't been knitting as much as I would like but with the start of the new year I have a few new projects I am working on. Mostly blankets and dish cloths (can never have enough of either!) The blanket I am working on is a Yule time themed blanket of green and red. I am hoping it is warm and lush and finished before Easter rolls around. Then I will be in the mood for some spring time projects and cleaning house.

The organizing has taken a very steep decline because in Seattle area the sun doesn't really come out at all and by the time you get off of work to organize it is dark in almost every corner of our apartment (we rely on a lot of natural light most of the year in the majority of our apartment.) I have a plan made of down sizing our collection of items and trying to get some extra money by selling some books and things we do not need.

I have tried to re-boot the herb of the month club with a group of friends. It is a lot more work than I was imagining and I need to get into work on that more. It is a lot of fun while at the group meetings but the collecting all the information and planning meetings is definitely not easy. I am hoping it gets easier the more I do it and get comfortable with it.

In entirety life is hectic. You plan and plan but something always comes up that was outside of your planning. No matter how much you plan something somewhere will go wrong but the best you can do is plan for everything you can think of and smile through the problems and get them resolved. That is what we are still trying to do and what I will continue to do.

Until next time.