I’ve been thinking…
How many times can a person unload a cabinet, pull tissues from boxes, and remove dvds from a shelf before growing tired of it? Well, as the person doing the opposite of those things (reloading cabinets, refilling tissue boxes, putting away dvds), I’d say it gets really old, really fast.
I can’t say that for Cole. Books off. Books back on. Pans out. Pans back in; this little bear thinks that’s one fun game. He is such the un-cleaner, that boy. He’s so busy! I sometimes wonder why I can’t have a clean house at the end of cleaning up all day long. The answer is Cole. Sweet, cutest Cole.
Speaking of busy, let’s talk about the past couple days…
Miss Kate finally made a choice between being the unicorn for Halloween, or Rapunzel. Tough choice, but in the end, Rapunzel and her hair won (which was nice, too, being that we already had the dress from her Disney Cruise souvenir).
The only problem with that choice? The dress. It’s Kate’s favorite dress-up, and the whole back side was un-stitched from lots of wear. It was either buy a new dress, or suck it up and learn how to use my brand new (4 years old ago) sewing machine. I reluctantly chose the latter. I cracked open the instructions, did a little reading, and as it turned out…sewing the dress was a piece of cake.
Truly motivated like never before, I decided, “Let’s make a blanket!” Weird, I know. I’ve never once sewed a single project since the ugly days of junior high so to start now, well, that’s just nuts.
Anyway, after cutting, piecing together and sewing the front side, I was on a high. Everything went swimmingly; not a single problem! In my head you might have heard stuff like this going on:
“Wow, Ashley, you’re really good at this!”
“Mmmm, someone definitely has a knack for sewing!” and
“What’s so hard about this sewing business anyway!?”
Well, on Day 3 I decided I was going to figure out how to bind this blanket with a mitered corner, using the backing (am I impressing anyone yet with my sewing linguistics?). This was not the easy route, but I knew I could handle it (being the up and coming expert sewer that I was). Nnnyes.
Anyway, it took tears, real ones; as well as hours, my sanity, and ultimately, some help from Sherrie to figure it out. Should have gone with the way I knew, but it’s done.
There are many imperfections, but when I gave it to Kate she squeezed it and said, “It’s perfect!” She later told me, “When I’m a mom and I have a little girl, I’m going to give this blanket to her.”
Oh, I just love my Kate! She is such the little validator and it just made my day! I think her reaction made it all worth it; I can say that now that I’m done.
I love these kids. Life is busy, but I certainly wouldn’t have it any other way.
Your blanket looks cute Ash. Is it a mink fur one? You'll have to teach me how to do the edging. Bree's just about worn out the blanket that Adrienne made for her. I miss ya. It's been a while. We should do lunch some time.
ReplyDeleteLove the blanket! oh and I can relate to the uncleaner I have one of those at my house rightnow and I feel like I clean all day and sit down at the end of the day and it looks like I did absolutely nothing.
ReplyDeleteOH the uncleaning child. Unfortunately, I have 5 (yes you heard right), 5 of them. I, however, don't clean up after their messes as you do, so I just have a messy house. I've pretty much given up. As my sister has told me many times, Nice things are for old people.
ReplyDeleteI, the above's sister, do take credit although I thought the saying was, "clean homes are for retirees." We do our best, but often I shoot for sanitary not spotless.
ReplyDeleteAND when did you learn to sew? I'm very impressed, young lady. I wish I were there to take some sort of class at Nuttals with you. (Although, maybe you don't need the class like I do).
I must admit I was laughing really hard at the sewing story. I'm so glad that Kate's reaction made it all worth it. It seems like so many times kids don't give you the reaction you were looking for, so you got lucky! Was Kate not an un-cleaner?
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