one more crochet hat

So it is February and winter is still here in full force.  I noticed my older son's knit hats were riding up and exposing his ear lobes to the cold wind so I made him another hat.  I crocheted a green one that covered his ears and back of neck.  I made a slightly different one for his baby brother.  I didn't follow a specific pattern but started out with double crochet and ended up with single crochet to make it more dense on the ears and neck.  Once again I used the same youtube videos to help me get started as I did in my other hat project.

This time it took me three tries to get the right size and I kept trying on the hat on my son as I made it.  He was sleeping at the time, but I knew it might be a struggle to get a three year old toddler to cooperate during the day.  By the time he woke up, he had a brand new hat with a pom pom, which he loved.

This is the beginning...

Before I start I am going to say that I am going to write from the heart.  I am going to ramble on and think out loud and not edit my posts.  It is going to be as raw and unsophisticated and chaotic as my life, despite my constant struggle for order and organization.  It is going to be me recording my life in the present.

So here we go.  My life has turned upside down when my kids came into this world.  I felt like I had so much control before they came.  Then I lost sleep and life spiraled into a Monday to Friday existence where I barked orders, did the mandane playground visits, performed meal time tricks to convince my son to eat and counted down to 5 o'clock, that's when my husband came home.  Then one day a little order started to replace the chaos, the kids got a little older, I started to get 3 hours of sleep in a row and I started to forget my crazy life.  I wanted to make sure to record the moments that were so beautiful that it all made having children worthwhile.

Yes, there are moments that make you so happy you can't believe it.  And yes there are many moments that are so difficult you can't believe either.  So this is living in the moment, with my husband, my almost 3 year old son, a seven month old son and a cat.  This is the beginning of the house of m.