a simple yarn

Sometimes you wonder if it’s worth it. In this instance, it most certainly was!

I teach knitting as an after school activity for 2nd to 6th class kids. Last term I had 3 students…2 girls and a boy. Bit of a challenge. Wasn’t sure I’d do it again. This term I had 5 students…all girls. For the first few weeks, they were attentive, interested, enthusiastic, intent on learning and improving their knitting.

Toward the end, they were chatty, cheeky, distracted, intent on doing anything except knitting! What was I doing?

Today was the final class. Had a party. They gave me a stuffed animal and a card which read on the cover, “Thank you for all your help”. Inside it said, “To our best knitting teacher, We all appreciate your hard work to help us knit. It’s very sad that it felt like a short time. We hope that you will open it again. With all thanks from: Sarah, Catherine, Sibéal, Megan, Sadhbh.”

It’s a Kleenex moment.