Sereknity: A Farewell

This post has been a long time coming.

I am...no longer expecting. For, you know, a while now. And I have no plans to expect (though you know what they say about plans...)

And for a while, that didn't really matter. "Expecting" is, by its very nature, a limited-time-only sort of thing, and there was plenty of "arrival" to talk about. And said arrival remains the joy of my every waking minute, and often the sleeping ones too.

But Willow isn't a baby anymore. Writing about her is no longer really writing about me and my experience of her--she is very much her own person, and to write about her feels like a violation of her privacy. (I know, I know...just writing that feels a little pretentious. But it also feels true).

I love this blog. I love it as a record, and I can't wait to share it with Willow one day. But I've clearly abandoned it, and I don't want to do that, but I didn't know what else to do.

It took me a ridiculously long time to find the obvious solution--new blogs can and do grow on trees!

So, I've started a new one. Sereknity, found at nikkivandecar.com, will have lots of knitting and crochet and spinning (and just a tiny bit of Willow-whose-name-is-really-Maile). It will also talk about some of the stuff that I've grown more interested in as Willow/Maile has grown more self-reliant--yoga, meditation, Shinrin-yoku, mindfulness and all that jazz, which really ties in very well with all that crafty stuff.

I hope you'll drop by!