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c u r l y p u r l y thursday march 04 2010 home sweet home i m bouncing back and i use the term bouncing very very loosely from a very rewarding very exhausting couple of days as a birth doula i am happy to say that mom and baby are well despite minor setback after minor setback but the mom was a rockstar as are all birthing women and the experience of witnessing a whole new real live person show up and join the party was just as it always is mindbending and fulfilling and exhausting emotionally mentally and physically something that is really odd about it i get a call and i go to someone s house in most cases we re nearly strangers having met at most 2 or 3 times before at a very pivotal point of their lives i slide into their environment fully i and my life cease to exist except where i fit in that moment into their world very quickly we move past the awkward conversation and politenesses generally exchanged when a stranger visits your home or you enter as a stranger into someone else s space over the next few hours we become intimate we share stories we share experiences not often shared among even siblings sometimes we then go together into yet another environment with a new cast a hospital room becomes our next reality with the various nurses and doctors and midwives and support staff that become such fixtures in that event if you ve ever been in a hospital or supported a loved one through a hospital stay you ll know what i mean you get to know the nurse and are disappointed when her shift ends and she goes home when she comes back the next day for her next shift and you re still there you re overjoyed to see her again this old friend and you mourn the departure of the one you ve come to rely on in the meantime then this amazing thing happens this birth happens and it s huge and tremendous and we weep together marvel together at the strength of mothers the miracle of birth i witness women at their most vulnerable which remarkably is also their most power filled and i weep with joy with pride i am moved by these women every time whatever differences we had when we met as strangers now forgotten and then i go home and leave them to their new families i arrive home my kids energetic and loving me i realize how i d missed them how i d relived each moment of their coming how i experienced again the joy of transformation from woman into mother how i experienced again the pleasure of changing baby into sibling i am exhausted and happy i shower if i m lucky i catch a nap and when i awake it s all gone like a dream my life is mine again and really that lifetime that just occurred was a flash a day or two that s all in the timeline of my family my household it never ceases to amaze me how my life waits for me how comfortable it is to reenter it how naturally it fits labels birth doula memories posted by marnie at 12 32 pm 2 comments tuesday march 02 2010 other stwipey bwanket years ago when my monkey was a mere parasite i made him this basketweave blanket which he of course being a wise and compliant boy loves and inexplicable calls his stwipey bwanket despite the fact that it s you know not striped it is a blanket though anyway many things have changed since i made that blanket one of the things which has changed is that the monkey was born and now he has two houses he and his gigantic sister travel a few blocks each week to spend a few nights at his dad s house and while so far there have been no major losses transporting stwipey bwanket to and fro it s a fear that haunts us all so we talked it over and it was determined that a second stwipey bwanket must be made i decided to make it actually striped this time and in my infinite wisdom used two yarns so close in color henry s attic inca cotton in sage and oz that you can t tell that it s striped at all so again we have a non striped stwipey bwanket but this one is nice and big and cushy and crochet so it was finished in about the time it would take apollo ohno to build a castle out of legos posted by marnie at 9 15 am 0 comments sunday february 28 2010 new pattern new site i ve been working away at all of the different little facets of my life for one thing i ve been going on a lot of interviews lately i m a birth doula and there s a lot of chatting that goes on when you meet a potential client for the first time i mean you kinda want to know a little something about the person who will be in the room when you push a person out of you anyway i go on a lot of these interviews and i end up talking about knitting it confuses people but it reminds me how much i love knitting i feel like i don t have enough time any more i m stretched so thin so many things going on i need to remember to keep on knitting because when i don t i miss it so so anyway in this working away at the different facets of my life thing i ve updated my knitting website and published a new pattern an old pattern really the first thing i ever designed though it s been tweaked beyond recognition from the first version which i now affectionately call alien bear because it was so weird looking my bear pattern i m going to be cleaning house and trying to get a bunch of my older patterns out there starting with the animals that s the plan anyway let s see what happens with that shall we so take a look at the new site at curlypurly com and let me know what you think i made it using iweb from apple in pretty much no time at all web design sure has changed since i started this thing posted by marnie at 11 39 pm 2 comments wednesday january 20 2010 crafting for haiti http planetgreen discovery com work connect diyers crafty aid haiti html posted by marnie at 9 33 pm 0 comments sunday january 10 2010 valentina finished valentina named of course for the daughter of dr parnassus these were extremely quick to make and though i thought they d be kind of annoying to wear with the wide top opening they actually feel less fiddly than my usual fingerless mittens labels valentina fingerless mittens posted by marnie at 5 17 pm 3 comments tuesday january 05 2010 four years so my fourth blogiversary passed on january 1 and i must say i ve been a poor blogger indeed haven t i well i ll see what i can do to rectify that first let me offer a whirlwind update of my past well year i m now in my 3rd of 4 years in school studying to be a homeopath i ve finished my training through dona to be a birth doula and am working towards my certification now the kids are growing my knitting has been waning i did work for a while in a local yarn store now defunct designing house patterns so it s not like i gave up on yarn completely and then this thing happened i was in the movie theater on christmas day watching the imaginarium of dr parnassus it was amazing but i found myself distracted by valentina s fingeless mittens and waiting for different shots of her hands so i could figure out how they were made seemed so simple but not like every other pair of fingerless mittens i ve made for myself and then i realized hey dummy you re sitting in a movie theater without your kids on a holiday counting ribs on gloves i think it s time to start knitting again and so i have labels fingerless mittens parnassus valentina posted by marnie at 3 47 pm 5 comments tuesday november 25 2008 oh such a long time it s been a ridiculously long time it s been a ridiculously long year in fact i m pretty sure it was about 18 years this year but i m back kind of and working on being more back my kids are growing i ve got time to knit again and i ve got a job working for a yarn store what could be better i m coming up on my third blogiversary i can hardly believe it it seems so much has happened in just three years i have so much to say so much to report and so little time to do any of it i don t have any photos of anything wooly so these pictures of my beasties will have to suffice posted by marnie at 8 06 pm 8 comments links the site the store federazione internazionale 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