Saturday afternoon hello
I’ve got all sorts of interesting posts planned in next week or so including:
- a giveaway that will seriously knock your socks off
- that post I promised you about why we homeschool
- ideas for saving money at the store
- a review of a new book that was hugely encouraging to me
- a review of a CD by an artist that also blessed me greatly
But deep in Saturday, I don’t have time to do justice to any of it. Saturday happenings around here include:
- 8 AM-Dad dropped Second Daughter off with friends to go celebrate an out-of-town friend’s birthday
- 10 AM-17, 15, and 13 year olds headed off to practice a drama presentation they’ll be presenting at this year’s VBS.
- 10 AM- Mom finally gets up – WHEN has that ever happened in recent memory? Shocking.
- 11 AM – Breakfast and fb chat with sis in Ethiopia
- 11:30 AM –Dominoes and stories with 4 and 7 year olds.
- 12 Noon- Put a turkey in a roaster to cook out in the garage all afternoon. 4 and 7 year old peeled 27 potatoes so that we can have mashed potatoes with turkey for dinner.
- 12-3PM – Supervised laundry folding and bedroom cleaning. Much heavy sighing about the inefficiency of children and bedroom cleaning.
- 2-4 PM– Sewing: shortened 1 pair of pants for my daughter and a skirt and a dress for myself. (The dress and skirt were previously almost ankle length, now knee length–they look SOOO fresh and updated I can hardly believe it. Also cut the hem crooked on a 3rd dress….afraid that fixing it will make it too ‘mini.’ Drat. Ah well.)
- 3 PM – Lunch, finally, then Hershey’s bars for kids who were victorious over bedrooms
- 4 PM – Big kids arrived home from play practice
- 5 PM– Pool time, with the lovely scent of turkey dinner wafting promisingly out from the garage….
Hope your Saturday is good too!
For your crooked hem, if you make it *really* crooked, it might look like it was supposed to be that way with all the asymmetrical designs that are out there!
I loved seeing a glimpse into your Saturday — thanks for sharing!
Depending on the fabric, could you sew a band of coordinating or contrasting fabric around the hem? You could sew a small piece of that same fabric somewhere else on the dress to make it look intentional. ? Just a thought. :0) Something like this? http://www.voguepatterns.com/item/V8356.htm?search=dress&page=all or this: http://www.voguepatterns.com/item/V1103.htm?search=dress&page=all
Sounds like a good day to me, I can smell the turkey cooking now…!
I feel as though I’ve had an exhausting saturday just reading your list!
It really does sound like a great family day. Sometimes the empty nest seems just a bit too empty.
As I lay in bed for over an hour tonight with my newly arrived 3yo from China waiting for him to fall asleep, I thought of all the blog posts I wish I could write but don’t have time for. I can soooooo relate!
I’d love to see photos of the dress and skirt that you shortened! What a great idea!