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and particularly unsure of where it fits into daily life i do sometimes scratch my head and wonder how i used to make the time to hang out over here so often funny thing is i m not absent because i m busy quite the opposite i m very very un busy and deliberately so i ve been on the s l o w bandwagon ever since the monotasking revelation and the slowness is continuing to seep into the corners of our way of life but wait don t i have three kids at home isn t life busy you must be busy is the constant remark that all mothers of young ones are familiar with not really yes there is a certain amount of relentlessness and perpetual motion to the whole thing the waking playing eating messing fighting dressing eating packing unpacking talking walking fighting scooting biking fighting talking reading painting cleaning holding washing cooking eating bathing reading cuddling sleeping that goes on between the hours of 6am and 8pm and the feeding holding rocking cuddling overnight the boys in particular are constantly moving they do what they do with vigour but our time is our own and in the spirit of idle parenting we have not scheduled much in during the week apart from kindergarten which leaves us flexible with time and able to spend it as we please and as a family we like to spend our time on relationships we re people people and we ve been spending a lot of time with each other and with friends old and new and with our creator and out and about in our neighbourhood as an unwaged person time is my commodity and i ve been really grateful about that choice during the last six months which for a variety of reasons has been a relationally intense time people have needed me and i ve needed people relationships thrive on time and i ve had time to give if little else blogging to me is also primarily about the relationships which is why i don t like posting if i can t also give time to reading and replying and interacting i probably need to figure out whether i want to make time to reinvest in the blog and the blogging world and what that looks like meanwhile time passes from my current vantage point it feels like it is passing slowly and that s a good thing susannah at six months posted by gina at 5 18 pm 19 comments friday august 5 2011 angry spoons i ve been in default gloomy mode this week some difficult stuff going on for close friends is weighing heavy on my heart i ve felt cynical and jaded the babe has been favouring night feeds my eldest has been sick and whiny my middlest has been constantly contrarian rough and ear splittingly loud i m told i have symphysis pubis dysfunction which a right royal pain in the pelvis i can t get back to running for at least six months we ve watched too much television there is a vague but persistent poo smell in the living room which we can t locate someone ate all the chocolate oh wait that was me great now i m fat too i think my 2 year old really managed to capture my mood in yesterday s defiant graffito angry spoons 2011 by charlie permanent marker on stainless steel hold it if i take the gloom filters off there has been so much good in our week this week i just need to go back through it to see it all again without the storm cloud the arrival of awesomely retro hand knits from great great aunty audrey glorious sunshine and a burgeoning veggie patch our first radish harvest and a new favourite rocket radish carrot apple mint parsley lemon salad a finished knitting project in deliciously soft saturated yarn finally being able to dress the girl in the sweetest of cardigans nudists and slave labour a few hours of fun with coloured rice inspired by emma leaf tea enjoyed in my beautiful birthday cup c o melski some baking and yarning both kinds with a good pal and a lovely project that s spanking along so many enjoyable moments so much to be grateful for i guess it wasn t all angry spoons over here how has your week been posted by gina at 11 03 pm 28 comments labels gardening knitting motherhood tuesday august 2 2011 can t blog knitting can t blog can t take photos can t finish sewing projects can t cook decent meals can t pay attention to the kids must knit oh yes i ve been whacked with knit fever i know i m so five years ago apparently the whole world has been on ravelry forever and yes i ve read about this around the craft blog traps but have always had my sewing baking home making blinkers on and have largely avoided all yarn speak now the filters have changed it was my birthday on the weekend and to celebrate i was granted a boy free day i spent the morning at the craft quilt fair walking disinterestedly past stalls of fabric and sewing tools and making a beeline for anything smelling vaguely of lanolin i barely glanced at the spectacular quilts on display yet i chatted at length to the lovely women at the handknitters guild table not quite sated i then spent the afternoon in morris sons stocking up on needles meanwhile the clutterpunk boys having somehow clued into my new obsession were off arguing over which knitting books their nutty mother wife might appreciate for her birthday apparently consensus could not be reached interestingly the children were insistent on the more practical knitting guides while the husband clearly has more subversive intentions for my newfound passion of course there is no spectacular finished object to show for all my knitty obsession i have taken the unusual for me approach of tackling things appropriate to skill level and not taking shortcuts i ve made washcloth which is lovely but not photogenic and i ve almost finished a two tone ribbed scarflet for myself in doing so i ve discovered the joy of knitting with beautiful yarn and needles even with large amounts of ripping out and re knitting involved note to self work on joggless joining i have also been coming to terms with the infuriating aspects of knitting for example the beautiful yarn that looks perfect for a little girl s vest but feels like knitting with chalk and the three attempts to obtain correct gauge with said yarn before giving up and finding a different yarn which happens to be a hank which happens to get in a terrible tangle which requires a long suffering husband and a frustrating hour to get sorted out nonetheless i m all in knitting i know its going to be a lifelong affair although i suspect that life may be shortened somewhat by a tragic knitting needle related accident if i continue to infuriate my family with the refrain just let me finish this row posted by gina at 9 03 am 20 comments labels knitting saturday july 23 2011 back on the bike team clutterpunk are back on the bike well most of them are in the bike can you believe there are three kidlets in there i stopped riding in february when i hit the seven months pregnant mark we were asked to car sit for a friend for 5 months which was a wonderfully timed provision we had been discussing hiring a car for a few months to ease our transition to five to make sure i could get to hospital quickly during a blink and you ll miss it type labour and to give me a bit of postnatal recovery time we gratefully accepted the car and sent hudson to be bike sat by a local family who were keen to try him out so in these last months we ve had time to test out whether it s time for us to buy a car the answer not yet we appreciated many things about driving again particularly the ability to be more spontaneous about visiting people and places further afield but there was so much not to love beyond the obvious environmental issues the stress of getting three kids in and out of a small car the parking difficulties and time limits the car sick prone child the money haemorrhaging we ve decided to opt for the mild inconvenience of having to plan ahead with public transport or car hire for a few more years while the kids are still small and life continues to be slow and locally oriented anyway hudson is home and set up for riding here s how it works the two boys on the bench seat and the baby in a car seat which we ve fixed securely in the front section everyone is snug as a bug susannah seems comfortable enough in her car seat and it certainly provides a good amount of restraint and shock absorption i love being able to put one kid at a time in the bike and leave them there while i fetch other things i love that i can park right next to our front door in bad weather i love parking right next to kindergarten or church or a friend s house rather than three road crossings away i love that i can pull up outside the bakery and duck in while leaving the kids in the car without breaking the law i love being able to stop quickly and comfort the baby break up a fight or fetch a dropped book i love the melbourne mizzle on my face and the bracing air while my kids are toasty and dry under the prairie hood i love hearing the boys chatting and singing and calling out to passers by i love being back on the bike posted by gina at 10 35 am 22 comments labels christiania bike community living green living slow living slow transport saturday july 16 2011 knitting knitting until two weeks ago i was a fabric girl not at all your yarny type no skeins or sticks lying around no k2p2 bizzo going on around chez clutterpunk no thank you very much i was not a knitter well that s changed and about time see that there that s a scarf made it myself a ribbed scarf with a keyhole opening in it no less and there was even unknitting and reknitting involved and yet i finished it i am knitter hear me roar i know it s ridiculous to be so pleased it was of course quite basic but you see i d come over all perfectionist again without even realising i d told myself and numerous others that i don t knit what i thought i meant by this statement was i don t care to knit what i actually meant was i can t knit which is perfectionist speak for i would really like to knit but when i pick up a ball of yarn and some needles for the first time i am not instantly effortlessly brilliant at knitting and therefore i really should just leave it to the experts and stick to what i know which is nothing much of anything and why am i so crap at everything and blah blah blah oh look a cupcake so anyway down with perfectionism and up with knitting as it happens i don t think i could have held off much longer the yarn obsessed world was conspiring against me the arrival of a most stunning dusky pink in threes cardigan by that almighty stick wielder tania a visit to my dear friend anna clutterpunk s preferred providore of finely knat washcloths and beanies who introduced me to ravelry the constant sighting of gorgeous milo vests made or in making and the fact that i keep returning to oggle at them the revelation that my mother whom i have never accused of doing anything craft related is knitting a gorgeous garter stitch jacket for susannah oh yes i knit she announced breezily producing a perfectly tensioned work in progress as i picked my jaw up off the floor where have you been these past 35 years knitting mother and finally the sudden remembering that the very first therapeutic act of craft i committed four years ago after emerging from the pnd haze was the knitting of a beanie for my newborn son how could i have forgotten that knitting was the first step towards the unravelling of perfectionism it s well and truly time to recommence posted by gina at 11 08 am 29 comments tuesday june 28 2011 the mending mentality do you mend stuff what do you keep what do you throw out how do you decide i don t think i d ever mended a thing until about three years ago when i first started sewing i didn t grow up sewing or making or mending so it just didn t occur to me to try it pretty shocking really to think that until that point in time it did not register that i could and should try to salvage my clothing i have no doubt i threw things away for want of a new button or altered hemline i guess i really did think of clothing as essentially disposable now i have a dedicated basket for clothes which could use a patch a stitch or a potential refashion some things sit in there for long periods of time at the moment i m finding myself delving in more frequently when i have a spare ten minutes because it s great to do something a little productive a little resourceful a little achievable something that feels a little bit like creativity even though it isn t i confess my mending is not neat or pretty or clever sometimes it doesn t work very well many clothes are too past it to make them salvageable still it s become important to me to try to give my family s clothing that second third or fourth chance not because we are short of clothes or need to be frugal per se but because we re working to build more of a make do and mend mentality respecting what we own taking better care of it avoiding the desire to toss things out or upgrade just because while i was stitching away at this rip in my husband s shirt i felt a renewed determination to keep working at our ethical clothing pledge i ll save an update on that for another time but i ve certainly been less consistent in the last year the mending pile betrays some poor clothing choices on my part next to the third hand toddler jeans and the accidentally ripped work shirts there are items that were just ill fitting bad quality disposable choices in the first place they sit there awaiting some refashioning inspiration reminding me to think harder next time do you have any mending tales to inspire me with posted by gina at 10 06 am 20 comments labels ethical clothing pledge mending simple living older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me gina i m a wife and mother a small town turned urban dweller a reformed consumer seeking a slower simpler life a christian learning to love my neighbour a recovering perfectionist enjoying being just good enough i love making reading rethinking growing gardening running hanging around with my three smalls and connecting with my neighbourhood real and 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