Wasting Time

So I’m supposed to be packing for our spring break trip, but I’m finding myself distracted with all the little details.  We are flying on a different airline and they charge by the bag.  I’m so stressing about their guidelines as to what a carryon is.  So much so I’m about to take a little drive to the airport and see if they would measure my bags.  I have measured them  and if I squish them they are the right size…almost… We picked this airline because they saved us about $600.00 so I guess if I have to pay an extra $80 for a bag I shouldn’t stress about it.  We are also going to miss the kid’s Spring Play.  It’s more of a concert than a play, but it was going to be SOOOO cute this year.  They have a fabulous music teacher who I just adore!  She has the kids singing pop songs and they are so excited about it. 

Lana’s class is singing New Soul by Yael Naim, such a cute song for her to sing.  Take a listen:

Kyle’s class is singing Replay by Iyaz.  While Kyle’s class is singing the chorus Lana’s class is going to be freestyle dancing, little kids dancing always cracks me up.

The whole school is singing Fireflies by Owl City. 

They are also singing Don’t Stop Believing the Glee version.  The older kids sing while the younger ones do the Da Da Da’s.  

Kyle’s class and the older kids are also singing Viva La Vida by Coldplay

Kyle was going to be in a group of boys singing Nine in the Afternoon by Panic at the Disco

 

Wouldn’t you be so bummed about missing it too?  Maybe there will be an encore performance after Spring Break.  On the bright side we are in for a week of chilling to the max.  It’s so relaxing when we go to visit Ronnie’s parents, I’m so looking forward to it.  I hope you all have a great Spring Break!

I am Persistent if Nothing Else

So Today I was totally free.  No grocery shopping to do, no helping at the kids school, no laundry, no cooking to be done, no driving anyone to anywhere, totally free.  So I had two things I was thinking about doing, getting my eyebrows threaded or making a baby gift for a baby shower. 

I want to get my eyebrows threaded and need to also but for some reason I keep putting it off. 

 

So today I ended up making a baby blanket.  As always something goes wrong every time I get behind the sewing machine and today was no different.  One of these days I’m gonna learn that there are some things I just can’t do well, but until then I will keep sharing my sewing mishaps with you. 

So I get the blanket all trimmed up and thread my sewing machine and load up the bobbin with matching thread and place the blanket on the machine.  I start to sew and then this happened:

  That’s my sewing machine needle, broke into two pieces.  I’m so special when it come to sewing, you just have to believe me.  So I figured out that my bobbin was too full.  Who knew it could be too full?  Luckily I had extra needles so I didn’t have to run to the store. 

I decided to make my baby blanket have rounded corner because it was something new for me.  I  left the opening on the corner because I didn’t know what I was doing.  Then after I pulled it right side out and was ironing it I realized I did not want the opening on the corner because it would be too hard to topstitch and make it look pretty.  So then I flipped it wrong side out again and sewed the corner and left a teeny tiny baby hole for me to turn it right side out through.  After pinching and pulling I finally was able to get it turned right side out and finish it. 

 

End result:  A finished baby blanket that passed the “can I give this as a gift” test. 

Sewing is just one of many things on my “I need to get better at this list”.  One other thing I need to get better at is bread baking.  So every Sunday is bread baking day.  Here are a few breads I’ve been baking:

 

Well, I’ve baked for 4 Sundays now but I guess I only took pictures on the Sunday when Ronnie was working so I could email him and he could see what he was missing.  I’m a nice wife like that.  The above pictured are cinnamon and dinner rolls made with potato pearls.  I’ve made whole wheat butter horns twice and last Sunday were plain white rolls shaped like knots.  I like the rolls so far because they actually rise.  Unlike my many loaves of wheat bread I have tried in the past. 

Maybe my next “free” day will be the day I finally get my eyebrows threaded.