Fill that particular blank with either:
a. knitting
b. reading
c. sleeping
and you'd have a summary of my week! There just aren't enough hours in the day to get it all done and yet I so want to!
Knitting: I've got a deadline of Tuesday morning to finish a design for upcoming Cast On! magazine (the knitting is just about there and then I have to write it up and get it packed to mail). I've finished another
design for Spring Gate (which I'll give her when she comes next Friday to brush up her knitting skills) -- that gives me a few days to write-up THAT pattern. So, on the knitting front, it's not like I'm doing nothing (and have even booked a Friday two weeks from now to teach two dear friends to knit ... they also homeschool their kids so we'll make it into a family affair!) I do have a backlog of three designs for Knit Picks I've got to finish and get out ... so I'm definitely swamped (but THAT is a good thing).
Reading: I'm doing pretty well on this front, too. I finished a couple of books for review (see this
review of Fr. Groeschel's book and a
Christian chick-lit) and the Chesterton book mentioned in this
yarn-along post has been finished and the review just needs typing up. Whew! The problem is I went to the library the other day .... and serendipitously found a fabulous book, one that I didn't had been published (in 2009, no less -- I must live under a rock), and that I'm SOOOOO excited to read .. but NO TIME! I just want to curl up and read
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
, by Christie scholar John Curran. This a book that discusses Christie's 72 notebooks filled with her writing notes ... plot changes ... development of her stories! How cool is that????? I've loved Christie books since I was little ... have read all 66 crime novels and 150 short stories (and read them all more than once). I am a writer-wannabe (have long had an idea for a mystery tied to, what else, knitting!) and this is a treasure trove of info for all writers. I'm so excited ... and I saw on Amazon that this hard-cover is a "bargain" book so it's my very own copy is winging it's way to my doorstep as we speak (gotta love Amazon!). So it's ok ... I have to keep telling myself this ... that I don't have time to read it this weekend, as I'll soon have my very own copy (and then I can make notes in the margins ... dog-ear the pages ... and study this book to my heart's content!).
Sleep: Max is getting better about sleeping thru the night. But the kids, in their innocence (bless their hearts), taught Mr. Max to leap the baby gate keeping him in the boys' room till I'm ready to take him out. So yesterday and today, Mr. Max got me up early to go potty -- a good thing in its way but does cut into the sleep factor! This too shall pass ... this too shall pass ... [my new mantra!]
So, what word(s) would you be using to fill in the title blank?
(about GKChesterton ... excellent book!) and readng Lost in Peter's Tomb 
to the kiddoes. I was also finishing up a cashmere design which I've titled Blue Ridge Sunset (it's available for download from my Ravelry store).
by Nancy Bond. It's a great story about a family who moves to Wales after the death of the mother ... and their adventures in the midst of dealing with their grief. So far, the reading is wonderful -- the images Bond conjures with her words are amazing! The book I'm reading is one I found at the library last week and was so thrilled with, I ordered a copy for my shelf: 
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