Quilting

So my mom has given me a new way to spend time. Quilting. I am having so much fun. I think I am having more fun designing them than actually putting them together. It brings out the artsy-fartsy in me.

This is my most recent. Just to give you a bit of perspective this is our ping-pong table. My girlfriends daughter saw the one I was making for my niece and said,  "I want a pink one!" I made one for her and her sister last Christmas that had ice skating material on it because they are both big into skating. They were my second and third after finishing my sisters. It was basic and simple, queen-sized but all 8" squares. Now look at me. I get out my graph paper and start designing.  This is my next project idea:

My cousin is requesting owls for Bella's first birthday party: look Whooooo's turning 1. I spent hours searching for this owl last night and turns out I had the magazine and pattern up in my room! Yay for me! Her birthday is the beginning of November so I need to get a move on but I am totally excited!

Also in my search I have found many different quilting blogs...here we go!

There are days...

    There are days where I really feel as though I don't know what I am doing. More like which way I am going. Even though I started working at Emerson last year, it was November. The kids had the routine down. They knew their numbers, they knew their teacher, they knew the Make Your Day citizenship program that we had, they knew what was going on...even if I didn't.

This year? Totally on me. This year we still have 5 lunches, but the time from beginning of the first to the end of the last has been shortened by 25 minutes. That's alot of time to have squished together. I feel like I am on a rollercoaster. Especially with the 1st graders. Who no longer have 1st lunch. They have 3rd, so they can't come in early. We have over 110 1st graders. The majority of whom buy lunch, don't know their number and can't seem to figure out that Mrs. Roberts means zip your lip when she says that we come in silently! I actually had one escape out the side doors to recess today, before lunch was actually done.

I know that somehow we will get into a routine. At some point I will be able to breathe before the end of the day, but I am not holding my breath.

Great day

What a great day! My mom got to take the day off and we went to the Evergreen State Fair. She found that if we brought 3 cans of food per person you got in for free! Free! It was going to cost us $41! Free is so much better. Now that mom is working she wanted to pay for the boys to have all-day ride bracelets. They had a blast!
We ate scones, rode rides, walked and walked and walked. It was sunny. It was easy. It was fun. We haven't had many days like that. I forgot how much I miss having my mom to hang out in summer. She has been off work the last couple of years, and I am so excited for her that she now has a job, but... I miss having her to call up just to hang out.
So, we are packing up our summer clothes. We are putting away the swimming clothes and camping gear and getting ready for school. We have this last weekend to play and then life goes back to a schedule. But for now? We got to play today, we have a soccer tournament this weekend (for Konley), we have a birthday party with friends tomorrow night, and we are headed to the beach house Sunday and Monday.
What a wonderful way to finish up summer!