You little devil! I like the way you think!!!
i don’t have kids yet…so I still think that way. I have the whole, my kids will never cry in public, never be bad, do all their chores without me asking mentality… :angelgrin:
Wishful thinking I guess?! 
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Anyhoo…now that I’m done laughing 
…has anyone here read Yarn Harlot? She’s got a chapter on knitting distractions that’s a hoot. The whole book was funny. I just finished it last night.
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I had that thought when I was single and childless. That went out the window after they were born. They do know their manners and when things are appropriate and how to act, that doesn’t mean that they will do it though (darn free will hehehe)
My biggest distraction right now is kids house and the internet. Trying to find a good sweater pattern for the knit a long. I think that I am just being to scared because the patterns that I have liked so far have been vetoed as “too hard” :roflhard: I need to just suck it up and pick one. :rollseyes:
I’ve been off work since Dec 21 and my kid comes home on Sunday, so lately it’s been pretty much only housework that’s nagging at me to get done instead of knitting.
but usually it’s: work, my kid’s homework, cooking dinner, housework.
weird - most times I can’t knit unless I’m relaxed and I know I don’t have anything else that needs to get done. but once in a great while, I can knit knowing full well that I’m ignoring 37546932746 things that I should be doing instead.
me too :rollseyes:
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You and Hildie are working on your doctorates? What major? My daughter is working on her masters in public policy and is debating a doctorate in economics.
I just finished graduate school and boy am I glad–I just called a friend the other day who is working on her PhD and told her that the positive thing about finishing school is having time to do things like knit or nothing. I want to go back for a certification in my field but I’ve gotten so lazy since I finished up in June…Hang in there guys–it’s worth it in the end!
And the kids thing–yah…I have to admit that I have an angel but no matter how fabulous they are–they still have their moments. My sister is here and moving back to GA and I’m a little worried–while I know she’ll love having her two cousins around–she’s very very close to my parents and she’s always had them to herself–I hope she doesn’t feel left out. Maybe it’ll be good practice for when another one comes along…
I haven’t read the book mentioned earlier but I’ll check it out.
My main distraction is this site. Surprised? :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:
What cuts into knitting time?
Needing to eat, cook to eat, sleep, bathe, shop, clean house, make more wine, blah-blah-blah.
And from experience, I can say never drink and knit… when you look at the project sober you WILL regret it.
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Definitely the kids! I also am a craft junkie and my other big hobby is rubber stamping. I make my own cards, scrapbook and stamp whatever else comes to mind (or doesn’t move!).
My 3 yr old was a flower girl in a wedding yesterday and my husband rolled his eyes when I asked if it would be rude to knit at the reception. (Honey, I was KIDDING!!) At least it was an out of town wedding :happydance: , so I did get some good knit time in on the drive to and from the event.
Distractions?
- Since I’m still on holiday, it’s this forum…
- But once the semester starts, it will be work (and the forum). I don’t have the kind of job that lets me leave it there. Now mind you, spending hours reading literature I love (and that is all I assign, of course) is not a chore, but it does take hours to prep for some classes, hours I could spend knitting.
- Cats. Five of them. They’re in the litter box, or roaming around trying to get into things, or haunting me and trying to get in my lap. I love my furbabies, but geez.
Fortunately, the dh doesn’t bother me. He has his video game obsession, I have my knitting, and we peacefully coexist. It’s fabulous!
I bought DH a pool table for Christmas and he keeps bugging me to play pool with him…
( you just shhh right now, Angelia!!! :fingerwag: )
I don’t mind playing pool, but sheesh!!
And of course the kids, and this forum… luckily talking on the phone doesn’t interrupt too badly, I can usually keep pretty good track while I’m talking, people just have to put up with “…four, five, six… go ahead, I’m listening!..eight, nine, ten…” 
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I’m being good, PHM. :—
my dh has a video game obsession too–and he draws so our hobbies co-exist too!
My hubby goes to sleep early so I can knit in the evenings. Kids-that’s why I have 3!! They play amongst themselves and leave me out of it. They are also mostly teens and can get their own juice. It is the homeschooling that gets in the way knitting wise. Although it is getting to where they can teach themselves mostly so I can sit near youngest dd to make sure she stays on task and knit. Since kids do some house work and hubby does some I just mostly do dust, vaccuum, and laundry. The kids even cook 3 nights a week. I have no excuse for not getting a lot of knitting done. They even realize that it makes me less cranky and if my lips are moving I am counting and they leave me alone. My biggest distraction is lack of cool yarn. All I can afford is the red heart mostly and I do get tire of it.
I haven’t knitted for about two weeks. I have had my G.D. She is 16 mo’s old and I love her being here, but you don’t get any knitting done when she is here.
What a total cutite :cheering:
So Sorry, I’m just learning how to size my pictures and I didn’t realize it would be so big :doh: :doh: :doh:
I still have the same problem 
. At least it was a cute biggie picture.