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What you do for Mother Culture or recharge your batteries?
I knit, I knit socks….a lot. I even have a blog devoted to it http://www.sockstobeyou.blogspot.com Socks are small and not a huge project. I have even raced my children with my knitting. Can they beat me knitting a round with their math facts?
I also bake…a lot. My family eats everything I make so fast.
I read clean fluff books :), garden, play with our kittens and am about to get chickens – which I hope will be relaxing not taxing!
I, too, read “clean, fluff books.” Sometimes, I watch mindless tv. Pretty much anything I don’t have to use my brain for! I know, not very productive, like knitting or baking (good for you, Christy), but stress-reducing, nonetheless.
Faith 🙂
I knit becuase the colors are wonderful to work with and we have lots of winter in the great north here. Make fun stuff with sticks and string just tickles my mind. Baking because I LOVE baked goods.
I garden, then garden some more, when wet I read, scrapbook, play games with the girls snd cook. I also love to walk, used to run, but bad achilles tendons have stopped that.
Oops, the most important thing I do, is drink tea with the girls, drink tea by myself, and just enjoy drinking tea, winter and summer, hot black tea with milk and sugar, with a few butterfly cakes, scones with cream for joy and bliss!
Depends on the weather, but I love to work in the garden (we ate our first homegrown watermelon yesterday, yum!). I also love to knit, crochet, sew, bake, have a couple dear friends over for tea or coffee, talk with my hubby, take a long bubble bath, go for a walk by myself to talk with God, play piano, soak in beautiful music, watch old episodes of Avonlea, daydream about homesteading, read, read, and did I mention read? I love hearing what everyone enjoys doing, great post!
Rachel 😀
Oh yes, soak in beauitful music is soooo uplifting. I love to blast Beethoven’s 9th symphony. I can just lose myself in that music. Maybe I should do that in my van with the windows rolled down for the benefit of others. (evil grin) Music soothes the savage beast.
Christy, I love those socks!! Your mom’s bags are great too! We are in the north as well, but I don’t knit. My daughter does though—mostly hats and scarves. I love rubber stamping! I also enjoy reading, cooking and canning.
What a great thread…and great timing too because I do feel drained lately and in the need for Mother Culture.
I like to draw, write, do some handicrafts (some handicrafts frustrate me), read. Some of my freelance writing and graphic design work really fulfills me.
When I take morning walks, notice nature and the weather or just the rhythm of my stride, my day goes incredibly better. Yet, I so easily let the habit slip.
I also try to get out regularly to see a performance, go to a book reading, visit a museum, etc. with myself or another mom.
Sometimes when I’m desperate for Mother Culture, I’ll count grocery shopping without kids in tow as Mother Culture time.
I like to write, take a walk and read. But, sometimes just sitting in a quiet place with noone and nothing really does the trick.
OK I needed to read this post…I haven’t laughed in a few days(dealing with some sin issues with a dear friend) SOOOOO I really needed this post..let me explain.
While I was reading Rachel’s post- Mamasong.. I was reading along and when she said “soak in beautiful music”, for a split second I was confused and had to read it over a gain…She had just said take a bubble bath or something like that..so when she said soak in beautiful music …I was like “WHAT?!! How do you SOAK in music…but of course it hit me. LOL 😆 Ok maybe nobody else sees the humor in it but IT MADE ME LAUGH…I needed to laugh.
Thank you Rachel.
Shelly
I’ve really gotten into baking bread lately and have become quite the bread snob (much to my husband’s chagrin who has begged for a loaf of white bread just for fun every now and then). All I can say is one of my 2 yr olds much prefers mom’s artisan sourdough to a piece of loaf bread! 🙂 I would really like to pick my knitting needles back up, I’ve tried to pick some of my smocking back up (I have outfits for my younger two that are hanging over from last summer). The really odd thing I LOVE to do is plow or subsoil on the tractor – my husband gives me this pleasure every once in a while and it is very nice to smell freshly plowed dirt, plus it’s quite relaxing – okay now I am sure everyone is convinced I am strange 🙂
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