This is a sponsored post for Moccona
I am really, really mourning the loss of my crochet time. On my daily to-do list, it sits there, staring at me hopefully as I scan past it for the thousand other things I’ve got to do. I’ve been filling my nights with work so I can fill my days with babies, but I’ve got to get a better balance.
Now that Pepper is older and is happy to munch on a rusk or cover herself in banana for afternoon tea, I sit next to her in my rocking chair and crochet a little while we both watch Abby playing with her toys or reading her books. I probably should be folding the washing or any number of other things, but I’m getting better at putting that sort of thing out of my mind! I think it’s so, so important to do things you love in the pockets of time you can find, or you go batshit crazy. The washing can wait, man.
Don’t they say fill your cup before you can fill others? I like a full cup at all times, but these days I’ll take it where I can get it!
I feel weird sitting down to crochet without a little something, and I’m still hooked (*crochet pun, groan!*) on the vanilla Moccona. I’ve been having one every morning while I get some work done before both kids get up, and then another in the afternoons while we all have some quiet time. A friend of mine used to play classical music and get her tribe to sit down and colour in for a little while to recharge before feral hour. While mine are still too little to colour for long (or at all!) I’ve introduced the quiet time ritual and will totally get our colour on when they’re older.
You gotta have a cute cup. You gotta make it special.
There’s still plenty of time to enter my Moccona giveaway, where five readers will each win a pack of all three flavours (vanilla, caramel and hazelnut), and one winner will win the grand prize of a $500 Amazon gift card.
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Alyce B says
April 23, 2013 at 10:29 amMy daughter just saw your mug and ran to get a toy that she thinks is the same – I’ll tag you on IG!
Lila Wolff says
April 23, 2013 at 10:29 amLove your cup. I’ve been mourning my lack of knitting lately.
Veggie Mama says
May 3, 2013 at 1:40 pmIt’s a deep pain!
MotherDownUnder says
April 23, 2013 at 2:08 pmI love whatever it is that you are crochet.
I cannot wait to go home in June…I am going to make my mother impart all of her craft knowledge and I will come back to Australia the queen of knitting, macramé and quilting!
And I am with you on the afternoon time out. Here it is a cup of herbal tea while Toddler C watching Peppa Pig on the ABC. Bliss.
Veggie Mama says
May 3, 2013 at 1:40 pmPLEASE teach me how to macramé!
Nikki | Styling You says
April 23, 2013 at 8:22 pmMy Nan taught me to crochet when I was 12 … because I had to for Home Ec. Haven’t done it since. Bad grand-daughter 🙁
Veggie Mama says
May 3, 2013 at 1:39 pmHaha I remember knitting a very sorry coathanger in home ec!
Lisa Mckenzie says
April 24, 2013 at 2:02 pmThat’s lovely, I like that idea,I can Crochet but not well, I am a knittter and like a little progect on the go, at the moment i am making a tea cosie old fashioned but very trendy apparantly when my sister and I were at an organic coffee/ healthfood store there were the cutest tea cosies I have ever seen ,so I have to me me some,I will show you when I am done.
Veggie Mama says
May 3, 2013 at 1:30 pmYes please do! I have crocheted a tea cosy, it was so cute.
Polly says
April 25, 2013 at 2:33 pmI saw something I liked on Pinterest the other day which has given me a little interest in crochet…as if I need anything else to take up my time!, is it hard to learn?
Veggie Mama says
May 3, 2013 at 1:13 pmNo! So super-easy. I taught myself in 2002 from pictures on the Internet!