Knitting Catastrophes!

I have many talents such as good at art, soccer, swimmer, skater, roller blading and skateboarding. But knitting, badminton and cooking are somethings that I totally suck at. It is even more heart breaking because my mama is better in those things.
In this post I am not talking about badminton or cooking fiascoes. I am talking about knitting catastrophes!
The first time I tried knitting, all the knots came off the needle.
Second time I tried knitting, I started of with 10 knits and ended up with 41 !
My mother who learned to knit only few months ago laughed till she dropped when she saw the long piece of knitting that was supposed to be a small scarf. Some of the knots were actually falling off my needle.
Today my mom and I were having a knitting contest. My mom is making me a poncho and she had 37 knits on her needle. I am making a scarf and I have 18 knits on my needle. After I finished doing my whole row, my mom counted her stitches and she had done 27 knits by the time I finished doing 18. Is that fair or not? I am only 10 you know. I tried to explain that to my mom, but she still had the winning grin on her face. Man, she is not fair. Oops, I am not allowed to say 'not fair' in our house for my mother strongly believes that life is not fair anyway and you just have to live with it. The consequences for saying 'not fair' is either doing all the CHORES or paying mama 10 bucks. By the way she already owes me and my siblings 20 bucks because she herself said not fair twice!
I am actually knitting the scarf for my mother and as always I expect her to use what I made for her. The only thing is, there are couple of holes in the scarf where I had dropped stitches. But still you must admit it is a beautiful scarf because unlike the last time, this time I haven't gained a single stitch.
Onwards I march holding the mighty knitting needles and hoping no other catastrophe awaits for me while I complete my project. I may suck at knitting, but I am determined to finish this scarf.