My Sunday

My Sundays are usually pretty darn predictable. Sleep in. Wake to find the kids watching 'toons on the couch. Drink one cup of caffeinated coffee and then several decaf. Then make a big breakfast. It's often these pancakes with fruit and turkey bacon. Sometimes it's this sausage gravy over these biscuits and eggs over medium. Sometimes it's egg tacos. Then we hang out until afternoon and go to the Y to play volleyball. Then we go to dinner all sweaty and tired, and then we go home and relax before bed. Sometimes there is knitting at a local coffee shop with my friends before the big brunch.

Nothing was predictable this week. Every day is different than usual. While we have had a lot of really good time together as a family, we haven't got to do any of the things that are part of our routine and it's quite disconcerting. But we are all healthy and the kids are darned happy as their Spring Break has officially started and so they don't have to do any of their pesky e-learning.

Some of the new yarn that arrived from Six and Seven Fibrers. Details Monday.

Our dyers have been sending us yarn, so this week I'll have some awesome stuff to share with you! I love that you are shopping and keeping us busy and keeping our dyers busy and allowing us to support our artisans. We will continue to fill orders as long as local government allows and as long as we are healthy. We are still going in at odd hours so we can care for our families who are home from school and daycare (though at least May or perhaps not going back at all until next school year) and also so that we stagger our time together and are mostly working one person at a time. Social distancing is the key to all this, people, and we at SSYC are definitely on board with it.

7 year old Henry has been living his best life. Lifting weights with Terry, ping pong battles, building forts to color in, pajamas, Picard on CBS All Access (that he slept through), and the the discovery that he likes kale chips so much that they never make it off the baking pan. My hope for myself this coming week is that a bit of the gray cloud lifts and I take on more of his excitement and wonder at being home and enjoying the odd change in pace. We have many more weeks/months of this and I hope to soon settle more into this new normal. See you tomorrow, friends!

*Just a reminder that I'm committed to blogging every day during this time (instead of the typical 2-3 times a week) to connect with others. Please do comment and share with me here if you like! You'll see the typical yarn updates and shop tidbits, but likely also a bit more family and personal stuff.

Comments

[Susan]

Good Morning Allison, I love hearing about your family and life. You become part of our extended family. The sun is shining here in SE Michigan and I am drinking my coffee. It has been very difficult to stay focused on any knitting project. I knit but a little here and a little there, not for long periods as I normally have in the past. Went outside yesterday and sat on the patio in the sun for a little while. Was bitterly cold but lovely sunshine. Today I will dust up the furniture and vacuum the floors.
Have a Blessed Day.
Stay Safe, Stay In.

[Jessica]

The lack of routine is frustrating all of us, too! I have had insomnia and didn't sleep a wink overnight. I did finish a huge crochet blanket for my 9 year old son. However, the tooth fairy must have been quarantined because she forgot to come last night! Yikes!

[Donna]

You’re getting a taste of what retirement is like.
I agree with Susan. Love hearing about your family. And Henry is lucky that he’s too young to understand exactly why he doesn’t have to go to school. My partner said someone (a governor of a state I think) said that schools may not reopen before next CALENDAR year. My oldest grand is supposed to graduate from high school this June. Who knows what’ll happen with the class of 2020 grads? Will they not graduate until school resumes? Will they be able to complete all of their courses in time to graduate timely? What about college students?

[Renee Anne]

I take it you're not in a "Shelter in Place" location (yet). We've basically been stuck at home for the last week. I've gone to the grocery store twice in the last 10 days and I think Husband went once. We're basically not allowed to congregate anywhere. Restaurants are closed except for take-out, all the gyms and salons and such are closed, we can basically go to the grocery store, the hardware store, the clinics/hospitals, and the pharmacy...and the post offices, I think. Other than that, nope. Not allowed...but you're also allowed to go for walks and bike rides and such. I'm still not sure how it all works, honestly. It's fine, though. As long as I can knit, talk to people via some sort of video conference, and we have food, all is well.

[Karen machado]

Hi from Connecticut! Can relate to all of your comments. I have a senior in high school. I feel for him, because he may miss out on so much, for the end of his final yr. of H.S.. Also, here, we are also basically to stay at home, except for medical reasons and food. I am trying to be like Henry! I am trying to feel that I may finally get a Zweig sweater knitted! Yeah! So, I want to try and stay positive. I have been sick all winter, with viruses, so being at home 24/7 in a state of quarantine seems to be my new normal. At least I can knit , now. Was too sick, to do that, for awhile! I love your family pics and Henry has the correct clothing selection- jammies! Be well, everyone, bless you all and keep knitting!

[Natalie]

I think routine is very important but maybe trying so hard to have routine is a chore in itself. I try and think of all that I am grateful for and let that be my focus. I have started looking at my yarn stash and making some hard decisions as I do not have room for all the yarn I own... I do not have any little ones at home and so my goals/routines are different and probably not as important. My one routine is reading your blog daily- thank you for that.

[J. Kelley]

Those pancakes are the BEST! I've made them with blueberries and they are soooo good!