No Two Snowflakes...

In technical terms it's called SSS~Second Sock Syndrome.  I find a pattern that's calling my name..."Shannon...knit me...I'll look so cute on your feet..." 

Round up yarn, needles, pattern and settle in.  The first one takes shape rather quickly.  Some short row shaping, a little lace, nice!  Sew some seams, voila!! One down.

Wait.  I have to do it again?  The same thing?  I just did that.  I don't want to do that again. 

A full day and half passes before I hunker down and pick up number two.  What should for all intents and purposes be identical, is of course not.  Rows miscounted, right stitches not picked up, corrections made, discrepancies only I can tell.  Seams sewn, buttons attached, two identical slippers stare floppily.  They were calling out for me to knit, but not calling to be knit for me.

Some days, as groggy eyes come into focus and bare feet search the floor for the pair that does fit, my thoughts repeat. 

"Do I have to do it again?"

"The same thing?"

"Didn't I just do this yesterday?"

And then the homepage emerges and I thank God for a kitchen floor that needs to be cleaned of paw prints, again.

I thank God for three children breathing under covers, whether wet or dry, sheets rise and fall, again.

I thank God for a husband at a job before the sun comes up, returning as it goes down,  providing for us, again.

When the hardest decision I can make in a day is if I should play it safe by getting an extra skein, that's when I rejoice at all my agains.

House in order, laundry caught up, bathroom shines, time to pick up needles.  Again.