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About amybailey aka knitsakes

She knits, cooks, ferments, creates and writes a little...on a journey to find true happiness.

amybailey aka knitsakes

November 24, 2012

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What is it? Do you know? I suppose it’s different for everyone since we are all a little different…I know one thing up to this point in my life, being around my son makes me happy. It’s a secure, mellow, warm, loving happiness. I had been counting the minutes until I picked him up at the airport on Wednesday night. I hardly was focused at my job, I hardly thought about Thanksgiving with other family members, this week I was living FOR Josh. He’s 18 now. He’s away from home for the first time. Our relationship has changed now. It will never be once it was. One thing I know is he is special. He attracts goodness and in turn he is happy too.

When I worked at a different place where the company focused on the employees becoming better individuals today than yesterday, there was a mantra that went like everything you have done in your past has prepared for you this exact moment now…That’s how I felt on Wednesday night when I met the boy at the airport. All the love and boundary setting, new experiences, jokes, comfort, late night worrying, discipline, though not much, prepared me for that moment. He was happy, mature, caring and he got HIMSELF to the airport, no help from me, and made it home safe and sound.
Here’s a picture of us at the gate on Wednesday night…

That created happiness too,I felt accomplished.

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So with all of that said, I’ve been happy this week. Be gentle yourself, you are a VIP.
If you would like to learn more about Happiness here’s a link for you…
Nancy Etcoff

Hello Baby

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Organic and mellow colored. Meet my baby butternut.
My summer garden was a BUST this year, except for this beauty. I’ll be making Chaana Masala with her.
I put in kale, beets and carrots for my winter garden. I also started a lettuce box also. There really is nothing like going in your yard and picking fresh herbs and veggies to consume. I am a believer in growing something even if its in a bucket or on a windowsill. It feels good to grow food and to share your bounty with your neighbors doesn’t hurt either.

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Just Do It!

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Some may think that’s a cliche’.
Some may take it as a directive.
I take it as a leap of faith. As I was rediscovering my first blog from 2007, I came to acknowledge that I can write. I can be witty and sincere at the same time or is that just being sarcastic? I have been thinking about lots of things lately. Lots of things I want to change about myself. Lots of knitting I want to create, lots of gluten-free food I want to make that will satisfy my hunger for full gluten, and thinking about how I can become happy again. Honestly folks, I’m in a rutt here is sunny California. Some call it being an empty nester, which by the way I don’t want to accept as a label especially since if I wanted to I could make my home a non-empty nest by putting my son on restriction, forbidding him to leave the house, pulling him out of college…Maybe I can Home College him! Now that’s an idea!
For reals though, usually I’m a happy go lucky type, who makes people feel good about themselves, by hugging and cooking for them and making warm wooly knitted items to keep them warm and secure. My mom always said I came out of the womb smiling. I got those happy genes. I just seem to have misplaced them over the past couple years that’s all…
Anyways. Today I’m just doing it. I’m beginning a new chapter inside the interwebs, to document forever in time according to whomever owns the interwebs, my thoughts, my recipes, my antics, my creations and dreams that dance around inside in my head. Maybe my perspective willh help others even if in a zone-out web surfing kindda way. Enjoy the journey! Allez! Tally Ho! Onwards and Upwards folks!