I hadn't realized it had been that long - you know, "Time flies when you are havin' fun". We've been so busy with holiday activies, plus the regular stuff that some of those days there just wasn't time to sit down and blog. SORRY!
Tuesday I had asked to be left off the schedule at work.
For Christmas, we gave Kayla and Jazmyn sewing machines (old ones) with a coupon for sewing lessons. I wanted to be sure and give each of them at least one lesson before they went back to school. That meant I had to do it this week, cos they go back on Monday.
Kayla and I had agreed to do her first lesson on Tuesday. I planned to be there around 10:00 a.m. I didn't actually arrive til more like 11:15, I think.
We got right to it though and had fun. She is a good student. She listens, follows directions and did really well. We went over the basics of her machine, made her thread it several times, then made a pillowcase.
Here are pictures of the lesson.
Left their house, went home, then had to start getting ready for dinner guests.
We had invited a couple from church for dinner. Dan got most of the food ready, I got the house ready. That wasn't too difficult, we had just had the house ready Monday night for Brad and Marie, it was only 24 hours later, not much to clean up!
I just lit candles and called it good ;-)
Wednesday I worked. I was starting to feel a cold coming on, and by mid-morning Wed. I was blowing my nose every 15 minutes, sneezing, coughing.....not cool when you are facing people all day and cutting fabric for them! I'm sure some of them shuttered. But, I didn't want to ask to leave, 4 other people called in that day!
Made it through the day.
We had planned for the whole family to go bowling during the kids Christmas break. Wed. night was THE night. Well, we found out most places have leagues, or don't open til too late, or something. We ended up going to Gina's house and celebrating Levi's BD. His birthday is the 29th, but she had told us all to put Jan. 8th on the calendar for his party. Well, since we were all going to be together anyway, might as well celebrate it, right? She had gotten a cake and made homemade ice cream. After the pizza, gifts were opened and cake and ice cream eaten, they turned on the X-Box Kinect games. Did we have fun, and laugh our heads off at each other. We took turns playing so everyone got a turn, then the brave and energetic played over and over. That would be Daniel, Jazmyn and Dave!
It ended up being Dave and Daniel boxing! What a sight!
I scheduled to give Jazmyn her first sewing lesson Thursday (today).
She is eager to learn. She isn't as eager for instruction.....she just wants to DO it! She did really well catching on to threading her machine, then sewing a straight line. Mindi told us how her teacher back in high school had them sew on paper without thread to get the hang of the stitches and sewing a straight line, etc. So we tried that. Jaz loved that. In fact, after we made a pillowcase and ironed it, and put it on the pillow, she went back to using paper without thread - and loved it. That's what she was doing when I left!
Pictures from that lesson
Then Rayna got up from her nap (Nate napped the whole time I was there, never did see him!).
Backing up a bit, when I left today, Dan was upstairs in the back bedroom/office putting insulation up. He's putting pink sheets of insulation up (if you remember from this summer, we got it by Gina's house....funny story there).
He also cleaned up the back deck area. We had left odds and ends sitting out there and it looked horrendous. We are having our small group over this Sunday for a New Years party and neither one of us wanted that mess sitting there. It looks bad enough with that old deck and yard!
Here he is putting up pink 'sheets'.
Well, my eyes are burning, my nose is burning, I'm all stuffed up. I'm going to go get comfy.....today is our anniversary. We plan to go see a movie tonight....better get rested up for it ;-) You know how stressful going to a movie can be.
The rest of the week.....Dan wants to work on that room upstairs, possibly the bathroom up there too.
I'd like to play with my new sewing machine. Maybe make something....for myself.
I'll let you know what we actually end up doing!
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