General Stuffs
So, hi there. how are you all? Fine? Fine. Fine, fine, fine.
Yes, we still exist and life is still happening and the house is still being upgraded and the childers are still growing.
btw, HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY to my dear Booh! He is now in Kindergarten for 1/2 days and it is going, um, well, it's going.... Znerkie is a very sensitive little guy and has inherited my socialphobia and leaving the house to go out the door has been a struggle for him. The first few days were heartbreaking, I had Znerkie sobbing in my arms as he lined up to go into class for the first time alone, I could hear his crying all the way down the street on the first day he went with his daddy, and most mornings are an effort to get him to dress and eat without having tantrums and not wanting to go.
After a month it is starting to calm down, I rarely have the after class meltdowns that he has been subjecting me to at home and he sometimes even offers more of a rundown of his day than "I did nothing". Last weekend we had a birthday party for him and I invited the entire class (22 kids) plus extra friends. WHAT WAS I THINKING???? No, we didn't have the party at our house, we held it in the school gym and my intention was to get Znerkie into a social situation with these kids to help calm his nerves about going to school. That seems to have paid a bit off but he still only wants to play with his Best Cleaning Buddy, Dam.
We have had school photos (ind. only, the class ones will be later in the school year) and I filled out multiple forms and releases and everything. Nowhere did it have an area to write what I really wanted "This is my first-born son Znerkie. He is beautiful in spirit and funny and caring and sensitive. Please treat him gently and with kindness, appreciate him, understand his nature, foster his many talents, respond to his humour, draw him out. We love him so much and know that he is a special little guy who requires patience and attention and we are entrusting you with our most precious little boy."
Why don't they allow for that in the paperwork?
By all accounts the K class is a nice one. In my brief observations at pick-up time it seemed so but Marathon Man, having the ear of the teachers, says the K teacher, the music teacher and the librarian all agree.
Anerklette continues to grow ever-more gorgeous. She dances frantically to songs, will sing along with me and can now de-dack and de-diaper herself. Methinks she will be easier to potty train than her brother. Anerklette is a girly-girl, trying on hats, shoes and handbags constantly. Her father is despairing of making her into a tomboy. She does love kicking a ball around and playing "Smackdown" with her brother though and I reckon she is going to be the runner of the 2.
I have, even though I have never quilted before, to make a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt for the girleen. The quilt is going to be handstitched using the English Paper Piecing Method (ie, using templates of cardboard - upgrade from paper - cutting and basting the material pieces to them). I will probably end up handquilting as well as I am still afraid of sewing machines after failing yr 7 sewing class.
This is the pattern I am going with this pattern pinklemonadeboutique.typepad.com/pinklemonadeboutique/2007/04/grandmothers_fl.html . See how it has fiddly little diamonds and triangles for the pathways? A more traditional quilt uses the same sized hexagons as the flowers but no, I had to go that little extra step. The name Grandmother's Flower Garden is thought to have come from the fact that you start out making it for your daughter but by the time you finish, it has to be for your granddaughter.
Thanksgiving weekend is here and I have so much to be thankful for xx
Yes, we still exist and life is still happening and the house is still being upgraded and the childers are still growing.
btw, HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY to my dear Booh! He is now in Kindergarten for 1/2 days and it is going, um, well, it's going.... Znerkie is a very sensitive little guy and has inherited my socialphobia and leaving the house to go out the door has been a struggle for him. The first few days were heartbreaking, I had Znerkie sobbing in my arms as he lined up to go into class for the first time alone, I could hear his crying all the way down the street on the first day he went with his daddy, and most mornings are an effort to get him to dress and eat without having tantrums and not wanting to go.
After a month it is starting to calm down, I rarely have the after class meltdowns that he has been subjecting me to at home and he sometimes even offers more of a rundown of his day than "I did nothing". Last weekend we had a birthday party for him and I invited the entire class (22 kids) plus extra friends. WHAT WAS I THINKING???? No, we didn't have the party at our house, we held it in the school gym and my intention was to get Znerkie into a social situation with these kids to help calm his nerves about going to school. That seems to have paid a bit off but he still only wants to play with his Best Cleaning Buddy, Dam.
We have had school photos (ind. only, the class ones will be later in the school year) and I filled out multiple forms and releases and everything. Nowhere did it have an area to write what I really wanted "This is my first-born son Znerkie. He is beautiful in spirit and funny and caring and sensitive. Please treat him gently and with kindness, appreciate him, understand his nature, foster his many talents, respond to his humour, draw him out. We love him so much and know that he is a special little guy who requires patience and attention and we are entrusting you with our most precious little boy."
Why don't they allow for that in the paperwork?
By all accounts the K class is a nice one. In my brief observations at pick-up time it seemed so but Marathon Man, having the ear of the teachers, says the K teacher, the music teacher and the librarian all agree.
Anerklette continues to grow ever-more gorgeous. She dances frantically to songs, will sing along with me and can now de-dack and de-diaper herself. Methinks she will be easier to potty train than her brother. Anerklette is a girly-girl, trying on hats, shoes and handbags constantly. Her father is despairing of making her into a tomboy. She does love kicking a ball around and playing "Smackdown" with her brother though and I reckon she is going to be the runner of the 2.
I have, even though I have never quilted before, to make a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt for the girleen. The quilt is going to be handstitched using the English Paper Piecing Method (ie, using templates of cardboard - upgrade from paper - cutting and basting the material pieces to them). I will probably end up handquilting as well as I am still afraid of sewing machines after failing yr 7 sewing class.
This is the pattern I am going with this pattern pinklemonadeboutique.typepad.com/pinklemonadeboutique/2007/04/grandmothers_fl.html . See how it has fiddly little diamonds and triangles for the pathways? A more traditional quilt uses the same sized hexagons as the flowers but no, I had to go that little extra step. The name Grandmother's Flower Garden is thought to have come from the fact that you start out making it for your daughter but by the time you finish, it has to be for your granddaughter.
Thanksgiving weekend is here and I have so much to be thankful for xx