Crazyness

These past few weeks have been crazy. My daughter got hit in the mouth with an empty water bottle and it broke her tooth. We were so lucky the dentist was able to glue it back on the same day. We don't know how long that will last or when it will fall off again.

Today my youngest broke his ankle while roller blading with his 5th grade class. End of the year field trip. He is on a fiberglass air cast and crutches till Monday that he gets a hard cast on.

There has also been other family member who have been hurt or ill. Not a good year so far.

I have done some sewing, mostly shorts. Work is also nuts, but the end is near. Six more days. Then 3 weeks off till I start the summer session.

Dreaming

Dreaming of my own separate sewing room with lots of natural lighting, a sewing machine that is not moody (that works), a large cutting table and yards (not scraps) and yards of cheerful, colorful fabric.

Back soon.

Take care,

Erlinda

Guilt

I have not sewn any thing for the children at the homeless shelter and I feel guilty. Like I have done something so very wrong. It has been a busy two weeks, first last week was spring break for me and my 2 youngest (spent it spring cleaning and running the kids around) and then this week my older boys were home on their spring break and work with the new triplets in the class has been rough.

I did pull out some fabric and patterns this evening, for boys only. I don't have much in the way of fabric that would be suitable for boys.  We found out that this past week the shelter has had nothing but boys, from new born to age 10.

I guess I better get busy.

Take Care,

Erlinda

Spring Break

It has been a busy month. I was sick the entire month of February. Co-works and family say I am sick every February something I need to watch because what ever I had was bad.

Work has been crazy, we got a set of triplets (who fight with each other and the boys don't let their sister speak for herself). Most of the kids have also been very sick and one may need a feeding tube. I am learning a lot of medical terms and how to deal with them, very over whelming.

We had a family get together the end of February for my dads birthday/anniversary. Can not believe he has been gone from this earth 4 years.



Other things that are going on and some sewing.

 Softball has started, trying to make all the games (not doing a good job yet)

 This guy is now a Boy Scout.

 Knit top size 5.

 Light purple knit top, size 5.

 Corduroy pants in pink and purple, size 5.

 Summer dress in yellow. It has a sewn in slip, size 6.

It is also Girl Scout cookie time. We did some pre-orders, but not much and we are trying to do as many booth sales as we can, but softball is getting in the way. So we will do our best and sell as much as we can. That's all we can do.

I am on Spring Break this week (besides softball and cookie sales) and plan to clean house. I am also hoping to get some sewing in. We will see.

Take Care,

Erlinda



I was supposed to......

On this vacation weekend:

I was supposed to...

....catch up on laundry
....clean house
....sew something for the BH kiddoes
....take pictures of the items I sewed for the BH kiddos
....do Boy Scout paper work
....copy pictures for Cub Scouts
....help Matthew reorganize his room
....make Arrow of light plaque (or something similar) for Matthew


instead:


went to thrift stores (bought nothing)
spent a whole afternoon at the library
made biscochitos (the kids did, I supervised)
cleaned and made pinto beans
fried sopapillas
and spent all day today watching family videos with these two

A great three day weekend in my books... wish my other two boys would of been here too.


Take Care,

Erlinda

***will worry about the other things this week.

Checking in

Happy Valentines Day everyone!

Not much going on here. No sewing for I have been sick, sick. First the tummy bug and then a real bad cold and now an awful cough that just does not want to go away. I never miss work and this past week I missed 2 1/2 days. The kids were not happy, it throws them off. All the kids in my class have all had some kind of illness, but I landed up the worst of it. Too much stress right now. And we are getting triplets in our class in the next week, bringing us up to 11 special needs kiddos. I am hoping they don't have any major medial needs like our others, for we are spread thin in help right now.  Enough venting I need to get to Boy Scouts.

Have a great week.

Take care,

Erlinda

I am sewing

I am sewing, just not as much as I planned. Hopefully this weekend I will have the two outfits I have semi-done finished to show you. I also want to start "my" quilt. I have some embroidery pieces that I did for myself and want to make (learn) "me" a quilt.

Take Care,

Erlinda