Sleep position #163
Last weekend Justin had a Boy Scout lock-in on Friday night and then had to be at OC at 8:00 am for a Future City competition. The city he made in his enrichment class with 2 other boys from church.
He didn’t tell us until Wed. before the lock-in that he was supposed to be at the competition. Needless to say he feel asleep at the table right after eating lunch. He stayed at the competition all day until the awards were over. He went to bed at 7:00 pm that night.
100 Stars
Our school has a program that rewards students for good behavior. The student is given a star. Jemma has collected 100 stars since school started. Tomorrow she gets to have a pizza party with 3 of her friends and play on the school X-box for 30 min.
Watch out Edmond!
Will got his learner’s permit today. If that makes anyone feel old, I’m very sorry. I figure I must be on to the next season of my life. I think my car insurance just doubled also.
Latest obsession
I’ve become a big fan of Pinterest. It’s one of those things you can spend a ton of time on. I try to limit myself. I pin a lot of recipes and craft ideas, but there is a lot more things you can look at on Pinterest. I made this pizza roll last week and the kids loved it.
I didn’t see this idea on Pinterest, but I do get my creative juices flowing from a different idea I saw on Pinterest. I have different Valentive shirt I want to make that I did get the idea from Pinterest.
Jemma gave this shirt I made to one of her friends for their birthday.
Contractual Obligations and the fine print
It came to Jemma’s attention recently that I have a lot of undone projects. I think this bothers her. She asked now many unfinished quilts I have and I said I had 3 downstairs. I didn’t know how many I had undone up in the long quilt closest upstairs.
She decided to make up a contract. It says that I don’t have to cook or clean and everyone else will do those things while I sew. Everyone in my house has signed the contract. I don’t know if they read the fine print to know what it actually says. But until they figure it out, I plan to take full advantage of the contract.
I made the quilt for my dad’s cousin. Her and her husband spent 5 years in Zambia, Africa. Her blog is the Gregersen blog over on the right side of my page if you are interested in reading about her adventures. The shirts are for Jemma. I picked them up for $2 a piece and she wanted them decorated.
New key for the front door
We put a new front door in right before we left for Wisconsin for Christmas. We have been planning on replacing this door for 2 years. We finally ordered the door over fall break. We had to special order our fiberglass door since it had to be 1/2 inch shorter than a standard door. Go figure!
We bought a door with a fake wood grain to it and Bill stained it. Our old door had cracks in it, so bad that you could see through it at times. Bill just discovered that the very nice storm door that we used to have on the front of the house is now 1/2 inch to tall. Now we’ll have to replace that at some point.
When we moved in almost 5 years ago the previous owners never used the front door, so there wasn’t a key to get in. Now we have a key for the front door. We also have a door in the back of the house that doesn’t have a door knob. We have started talking about what we want to do with that door. Hopefully it won’t take us 2 years to replace it.
Birthday Shirt
My niece turns a year old Jan. 5th. I made her this shirt. Jemma helped me pick out the colors. We had a lot of fun putting it together. Happy Birthday Samantha!
Winter picnics
Since there wasn’t any snow and the temp was 38 degrees one day we went to the woods and had a weiner roast.
The boys and Bill had been out in the woods helping my dad cut wood and clear brush.
No weiner roast would be complete without smores.