Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A holly jolly Christmas

This year, I was kind of in a bit of a hurry to get Christmas over with - totally not my style. But I was eager to begin a new chapter in my professional life, as a counselor at a halfway house for chemically dependent women and their children. This is the place I was gushing about all summer and fall as I interned there while completing my CD counseling certificate. I was hired on as a temporary fill-in for a woman taking maternity leave, and will be there through winter. I am so excited, and grateful, and full of joy to be able to do my dream job. I keep thinking that the Universe had a plan all along, even before I started school, because everything I've done has prepared me for this. Hooray!

That's not to say I didn't enjoy the holidays. My sister loved her knitted gloves, and Brian was happy to have new handknit hats. My stepdad was super excited about handspun, handknit socks - he was just asking when he'd get another pair to wear hunting. I even gave my mom a post-holiday sweater that was too big for me (The Cloudy Sunday sweater).

I certainly got spoiled, myself - my husband and my mother in law outdo themselves every year. For your enjoyment, a montage:


Lots of yarn for socks and 2 sweaters, books, and even a yarn meterage measurey thing! I'm a rich woman :)

I'm so rich, in fact, that I have THREE Knit Picks Options Interchangeable needle cable connector sets! I'd love to share the bounty with you, so leave a comment to this post before 9am on FRIDAY, December 31, and I'll draw a name at random to receive one of the sets! Good luck!

Hopefully your Christmas was merry and bright as well. Best wishes in the year ahead.

5 comments:

  1. Woah. You raked it in! What's the kit for? I think I see a fair isle yoke sweater...

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  2. Great gifts! Holy smokes! Do you have a sweater in mind for the big bag of yarn?

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  3. Great gifts! Is that a Fair Isle sweater, or one of those amazing, complicated-looking Bohus thingies?

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  4. Congrats on your job! Looking forward to all the blog/ravelry posts that will come from your great gifts!

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  5. Hells Bells Woman! You scored! :)

    Glad to hear about the new job. That is the awesome. :)

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