Life's a Stitch

Think Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella voice: “What’s this fuss I hear about change management?” The task of managing change has become a money maker and change has provided an arena for recreational whining. I’m generally from the I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, get a grip camp. HELLO, change is a part of life, make the best of it, roll with the punches and all of those clichés.

So, back to the home front. In a blink of an eye, I have been demoted to the shortest being in the house besides the Scottie body, and last night, for the first time, outnumbered by males. I been used to two daughters, a female foreign student, me, and the two guys. That makes it 4 to 2, not counting the dog. Last night with the daughters at school, the Swiss Miss on a tour of the Rockies, and Mari’s newly unemployed boyfriend camping out at our place, exchanging brute labour helping with the Great Wall for a couple of home cooked meals, I was outnumbered, 3 to 1. “It’s not like it used to be,” she whined. When I talk to the others in my house I have to look up. The toilet seats are consistently up and the entry is full of huge shoes.

“What’s this I hear about change management? Oh, never mind.”

Lots of good knitting happening. I’m particularly excited about my felted brimmed hat made out of Cascade 220 Tweed in a charcoal grey.