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Mitten Love

January 11, 2017 By Christine Field

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I love mittens. I like a nice pair of gloves as well, but mittens provide comradery for the fingers. They may purposely exclude the thumb, but the four fingers can fraternize and keep one another warm.

mitten love

One of my favorite children’s books is about mittens. It’s called The Mitten by Jan Brett and tells the story of a child walking in the woods who drops a white mitten. He doesn’t notice its absence, but the animals do! One by one, they crawl into the mitten: a mole, a rabbit, a badger and more.

The Mitten

 

Head over to Pinterest and type “mitten” into the search bar. What you will see is a display of human fascination with mittens! Colors and designs are amazing.

When my kids were little, we had a family friend who would knit a pair of mittens for each kid for Christmas. They loved her creations and each year looked forward to her handiwork.

Want to learn to make mittens? You can take an online course to learn how and then make mittens as gifts for others.

Crochet Mittens & Fingerless Gloves

Mittens come in many materials.

There are traditional knitted or crocheted mittens:

Polka Dot Mittens

 

 

These mittens are really good for snowball fights:

Snowball Mittens

Avid texters need mittens like these to be able to text under any circumstance:

Texting Mittens

And who can resist baby mittens. So precious!

Baby Mittens

You can use special mittens to get things out of the oven. These are also useful for frightening small children.

Oven Mitt

You can get a glove or mitten to clean up pet hair:

Pet Hair Mitt

Or even a special glove or mitten to surreptitiously brush your pet:

Pet Mitt

 

There are a few months left to get your mitten love going before spring. What will you do?

 

 

 

 


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Hi, I’m Christine

Have you been a wholehearted mother, but time, toddlers and teenagers have moved on? If you are wondering what comes next for you, you’ll feel right at home here.

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After a couple decades of writing books and articles about parenting, homeschooling and adoption, speaking to homeschoolers and other parent groups, and reaching out to the mom in the trenches who was trying to make the best of it - my kids grew up. Some grew up and grew away. I was determined to find a way out of the pain, emptiness and lack of direction.

For many of us, the journey starts with something we moms are not accustomed to. After years of caring for and serving others, sometimes we forget the beauty and wonder of US. We need to spend some time getting to know the parts of ourselves that have lain dormant, and take the time to explore interests and passions that we set aside.

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