The countdown has begun. Next weekend I get to go to visit my sister. ALL BY MYSELF. Steve’s going to get off work as early as he can on Thursday, which I’m hoping will be around lunchtime. I’m loading up his car with yarn and clothes, and driving over to Aurora, IL. I’ll be spending Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with her, and then driving back on Monday. So far, here’s my “Do not forget to bring these things” list:
the yarn I got for here on clearance at Hobby Lobby
the yarn I ordered for her from Knitpicks
the yarn we’re going to try to dye using some red dirt she brought back from Kauai
my ball winder
See a pattern here?
But more importantly, no I haven’t yet decided on what projects to bring. I better get to it. Only a few more days!
He had flown down there to surprise his mom for Mother’s Day (she had been having a really bad day), and I had him take some hanks down with him for her to choose from. He came back Monday morning, then had to go to work, and had some meeting thing afterwards, got home around 10, and let me know what she chose. This was her first pick, which really surprised me. She’s not normally one for pastels. It’s Imagination sock yarn from Knitpicks.com, and I have socks in the exact same colorway. I wore them when we were down there over spring break, and she loved them. So, now she has a pair of her own.
Russell at his End of Year program at his preschool. This is the shot where they’re doing the Pledge of Allegiance. Why does it look like I spelled that wrong? Nevermind. They sang a bunch of songs, all were very adorable, and it was a nice program in all.
I know, you can’t read that at all. It belongs to my oldest son, David. He takes enrichment classes 2 times a week, and this was one of his projects. It’s a Civil War era newspaper. Very amusing.
These were some t-shirts that the other enrichment classes made, but I wanted to post them if only so that I can remember how she said they made them. For the most part, they used black sharpies. They put a glass jar under one layer of the shirt, and slightly stretched it around the opening, securing it with a rubber band. Then they drew a circle with the sharpie, and using a dropper, dropped rubbing alcohol onto the circle. The marker broke down into it’s various colors, and spread out. Very cool. We’re so doing this this summer.
Russell’s preschool had a picnic on the last day. That’s him there, in the green shirt. He was so excited to eat his lunch at school.
This is a cool story. The kids all do several writing assignments during the year. Some of them turn out quite good. There’s a senior at the high school who thought, how much would it inspire these kids to see their stories published? So, this senior got a group of other HS’ers together and got a publisher to donate, and started asking teachers for submissions. Back in April, we got a permission slip to sign, asking if it was acceptable to include a story David had written, and we said sure. This was the awards night, in which they announced each students’ name and read a snippet of what they wrote, and they were each given a copy of the book which included all of the stories. It was very cool.
That’s Russell up there, giving me more gray hairs. David’s class had a party over at a park near the school, and we went too to let Russ run around a bit. All the 5th graders were so nice. They stopped jiggling that climbing thing whenever Russ got on to climb.
Isn’t that an adorable smile? Patrick has lost 3 of his 4 front teeth, and the other one’s loose too. I’m considering fixing corn on the cob. This was at his little award ceremony for 1st grade.
