Being Decisive

My life is a mixture of parenting, teaching, knitting, cooking, performing household duties as a single mom, and occasional bits of relaxation. Put all that stuff in a Kitchen Aid, push the lever up to about 6, and mix till creamy. That's my life. I often look around and think: "Wow. How did I get here?" But I love it. I love every minute of the insanity, to be honest. I thrive off of it.

So....I have made a decision about this blog and its purposes in my life. I am not ready to launch into a blog of the sort where I share bits of my life through my complaints about the world, such as:
Dear guy-who-cut-me-off-on-the-rotary-this-morning,
Blah, blah, blah.

I don't find that valuable.

I'm also not ready to lobby for social change quite yet -- I cannot yet trust myself to think deeply on a regular basis about changes on that level. I do hope to participate in such things, but what I am able to initiate is limited.
Here's what I want to do: write about two passions in my life -- teaching and knitting. (Probably with a bit of my own kids thrown in here and there.) And lately what I've been doing on the teaching front is writing progress reports for the kids in my class. I've been realizing how different this process is from handing out report cards, which I have also done as a teacher. As I write these, I am thinking deeply about who this child is, about how far they've come this year and where they are going now. What can I do to support him or her in that journey? The answers are long and varied.


There is one concrete thing, though, that I've decided to do for the students in my class this year. I've decided to knit them each a pair of socks. By the end of the school year. So there it is -- my decision. And blogging about that process will let me write about teaching and knitting jointly.

17 pairs of socks by mid June. That's a little more than a week per pair of socks, I believe. It means I will have to be focused and fast.