Monday morning. It's nicely quiet and calm here and I've just finished my favourite breakfast of poached egg (thankyou Mrs chickens) on hot buttered toast with a pot of tea - a good start to any day. I had planned to be back here on the blog sooner but it has taken a little longer than expected to get Toby settled back at school and Amy moved into her new uni digs. At last though we are back into familiar routines - to some that might sound boringly monotonous but here routines are a welcomed necessity and help our little family function.
Toby is now in the sixth form at school and so doesn't wear uniform. As someone who takes great comfort in the visual clues that different outfits bring to his life, he has had a little difficulty adjusting but we've settled on familiar school shoes and black jogging bottoms paired with a colourful T shirt (previously strictly weekend wear) and a new grey hoodie, and he's now adapting. Amy has had some challenges with settling into her new digs after a summer of living at hotel mum & dad but is now (I think and hope) happy to be back at uni and ready for year 2.
Now that I have time to myself again I've been tidying the house and sorting out paperwork relating to Toby's transition from child to adult social services - lots of reading and research to do and a lot of planning too. Once I'm on top of the paperwork and have caught up with emails I'll be joyfully turning my full day-time attention back to knitting and pattern writing - I can't wait! I have so many ideas bouncing around my head and hastily scribbled in notebooks over the last 3 months and I'm looking forward to sharing them with you. A sneak peek of one of the free patterns I'm planning on sharing is above.
I'll be back soon with more knitting news, 'til then thanks for dropping in to visit with me,
J x