We have a new plan. I’ve “hired a Nanny” to watch the little guy 2 days a week. From now on, unless something comes up that must otherwise be dealt with, I’ll be dyeing yarns on Monday and doing paperwork, pictures and posting to the site on Thursdays.

We’ve decided to pretend that I’ve taken a part time job out of the house and have made arrangements to pay Nonna to watch him and fix lunch those 2 days. The plan is that by actually paying her we’ll all take this arrangement more seriously. For me, it means that I really do need to treat this like I’m at work and get yarn dyed and on the site so I’ll have the $ to pay her. For her it will mean she’s less likely to want to skip a week to do other things and even DH will take it more seriously that my time is for work those days, not housework. Besides, Nonna is on a fixed income and costs keep rising so it isn’t like she couldn’t use a little extra $ coming in . . . and if I can actually work on a regular basis it will be well worth the investment. Besides, I even get lunch out of the deal!

We actually did our first work day today and I did dye a batch of yarn, including 2 brand new yarns I’ve never had on the site before. I’m working still to finish them off and then once everything has dried (could be a couple of days in our current weather) I’ll be posting them to the site. And over the next couple of days I’ll be skeining off lots more sock yarn and prepping other yarns to dye up some more stuff on Monday.

I’ll post a note here when I get the new batches up so stay tuned.