Relief Society Activity: My Favorite Things

 At our Relief Society activity this month we are going to share Our Favorite Things...at least one of them!  For some people our favorite thing is actually a physical thing. For other people favored things are mental or spiritual.  Or crafts or hobbies or foods.  This evening I was talking with JS who knew I could not attend the meeting. She suggested I blog about my things, so here it is.

For myself, I actually have many favorite things!  Which can be a problem.

Three I will mention here.  One is my love of knitting.  Many years ago I became somewhat disabled and had to be in bed for a year.  I then had to spend a great deal of time sitting.  That was such a problem for me.  No longer being a productive member of society, and especially my family, was a very bad thing for my mind and spirit.  SO...I tried to think of what I could do with the constraints I had. 

Knitting became my new dear friend.  I could sit and knit.  I could produce gifts for family and friends. I could make beautiful things. I could make useful things.  To this day I love to knit and always have one or more projects going.

My new goal is to record all knitting and crocheting in my Ravelry feed.  Ravelry was started in 2007 as I recall and was meant as a tool for people to record the yarns they had on hand and the needles and other tools  they had.  This would help people get organized and save them money because they would not buy multiple sets of needles they did not need nor yarn that they already had in stash. It started out that way for me but then I fell off the wagon...sort of like every other good progress in my life!

There are two projects that I have not recorded that I am currently working on or have completed.  One of my intentions for this year is to be a monogamous knitter.  So far so good.  I had ordered a kit to work on while on vacation but the Post Office failed me.  The kit was to arrive on Thursday but did not.  It arrived on Friday after we left so I was pretty happy I had packed some alternative projects to work on.  With the ankle and foot issues currently on board I knew I would need to do a lot of sitting...so knitting and crocheting was the thing.

The second favorite "thing" is friends.  There are so many wonderful women who have been friends to me for decades and others who have been friends for only a short time.  How I love you all.  You make my heart sing.

The final favorite thing I want to mention is containers. I LOVE containers.  I love their shapes. I love their sizes. I love their usefulness.  In church on Sunday a lady, also a visitor here to the ward, had the most wonderful purse. I asked her about it.  It was a basket she found at Whole Foods.  WELL!  My sister and I went to Whole Foods yesterday and they still had the baskets!  I was so happy.  I picked one up.  It turned out my sister bought it for me.  She is so generous always.  Another of the many reasons I love her!

This is the perfect purse/basket for Sundays!  I can slip in my notebook and pen, my iPad, my phone, my keys, my ID and not a lot else.  Perfect.  Dear One just looked at me and smiled when I came home with it. He has given up suggesting that we have enough containers.  At least for this week...!