{"id":3196,"date":"2008-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromutopia.com\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2008-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T06:00:00","slug":"sneaking-a-quick-post-while-the-kid-naps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/sneaking-a-quick-post-while-the-kid-naps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneaking a quick post while the kid naps…"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s conked out, but I don’t know for how much longer. We had a busy morning. A playdate with Jonah<\/a>, then a long stroller walk to the Goodwill to buy some more books for Thumper, then a nice long walk back home. I was hoping he’d fall asleep on the way back and he did, just a few blocks from home.<\/p>\n

Six new books for him at Goodwill, and a cool hot rod toy,and two coffee mugs for me, and a winter coat for him for now and another to grow into. All for $25. We love Goodwill. They’re big and clean and well-organized here. Nothing like the cramped little Salvation Army warrens back in NYC.<\/p>\n

I have yet to cast on for David’s<\/a> kilt hose, or for the Vintage socks, or for the new Trilce. Truth be told, I’m barely knitting at all. Just a few rounds here and there on that stockinette sock, but then only when I can’t be doing anything else–when we’re in the car or if Thumper is playing independently for a few minutes. The time that I find available to me when I do have the peace and quiet and lack of distraction to follow a chart (kilt hose), I find myself just wanting to read. And not read while knitting, but really read. To just sink into the couch and into the book. I used to devour a book a week at least. When I started knitting, that slipped to a book every few weeks, then a book a month… I seem to be moving away from that right now. I love to knit, don’t get me wrong. But I’m not seized by the desire to cram stitches into every free moment anymore. I missed reading and didn’t even know it. Now that I’m reaching for the books before the needles, I’m remembering how good it feels to read a book quickly. To give it hours each day, so you’re really living in it, right there with the characters. (Yes, fiction. That’s pretty much all I read.)<\/p>\n

In the past few weeks I’ve been hanging out with Alice Munro, Mary Gaitskill, Don DeLillo, Denis Johnson. Right now I’ve moved on to Philip Roth and Sabbath’s Theater<\/i>. <\/p>\n

I’ve got a yarn stash that’s way too big and needs to be knitted down before I acquire more yarn, but I’ve got even more of a book stash, many books waiting years for their turn.<\/p>\n

There may be a bit of a slowdown on the knitting around here. Fair warning.<\/p>\n

And now to get a bit more reading in before the baby wakes.<\/p>\n

PS: David, I’m starting the kilt hose really soon, I swear. Probably tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s conked out, but I don’t know for how much longer. We had a busy morning. A playdate with Jonah, then a long stroller walk to the Goodwill to buy some more books for Thumper, then a nice long walk …<\/p>\n

Sneaking a quick post while the kid naps…<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}