 Busy-ness abounds around here of late. Granny J came for a short visit over the weekend. It was really nice. It's never long enough or often enough. Wish we could talk her into moving up here closer...
We made a trip out to NM to visit a family with 9 young'ns. They blessed us with their old van. Now we have plenty of room for the family and Papa. It's nice not to have to have people climbing over seats to get in and out. We had so much fun. The children played and played. We got to go fishing and the children did some rock climbing. We really enjoyed the fellowship. They cooked us breakfast each morning, it was so good. We took our camper, a pop-out which sleeps 10. I had planned poptarts and toaster strudels, so we are using them as our recouperation food now. Thankfully, we had all the laundry caught up and the house clean before we left. We put our dirty clothes in trash bags, separated by color. It made it much easier to just through laundry straight from bags into washer and we are already caught back up.
Before we left I was also able to get a little sewing done. I made a jumper out of an old pair of overalls for me and a matching jumper for #4, then 4 sunbonnets, 2 for #4 and 2 for the baby. Now I'm in the mood to try some coulottes. I'm thinking about just taking a regular shorts pattern and making the legs wider... We'll see how it goes. I also want to make some jumpers and dresses for me. I'm torn on style and size. I want the extra room for comfort, but I don't want to look like I'm wearing a circus tent. I'm hanging on to way more weight than I'm used to and I don't know whether I'm going to loose it as I become more active, or if I need to accept it as mid-life fluff. The A-line skirt dresses and jumpers are very flattering, but they aren't as comfy and easy to manuver in around the house. I like to get down on the floor with my young'ns. I'd really like to do more matching things, but it takes so much material for all of us. I have material that just really needs to be used up. Some of it is wearing real bad where it has been creased. I'm going to have to be real careful cutting things out. I'm trying to figure what is the best, most modest and comfortable at the same time, for our windy days. I've never had a pair of coulottes that were really comfortable, and I tend to really flop when I try to make my own patterns, so I'm timid about trying. I've been looking online for different ideas. (Waisting a lot of time procrastinating!) I want something that looks like a skirt, but isn't going to blow sky high in the wind, or be a problem when #4 is doing summer-salts or cart-wheels. I like the idea of the skirtlots (www.myculottes.com) but I'm not sure how they will work for riding horses. I'm gona make the big girls make their own stuff. I want them to know how to sew for their families. I may be wanting too much at one time. If our weather was a little more predictable, it might help. Can't have everything we want! |
