Tuesday 10 - Just for Fun

1. These kids.  Photo from yesterday after school when jones cut an entire bag of lemons to make lemonade.  He almost forgot to add simple syrup.

2. My new red tom’s they have the thicker sole I dig them. 

3. Creative spelling

4. Rainbow organized closets - mine would be all black and Gray almost.

5. Second Vax done.

6. Everything about this!  Oh girl you are awesome.

7.  His freckles.

8. New needle art project almost done.

9.  My new bike ordered in Feb finally shipped.

10. Mom crowns.  

May update

Here it is May.  Spring is full on here it’s either rainy or warm or crisp and cool.  The blooms and tulips have came and went.  The kids and I weeded and hauled almost 40 bags of mulch and about half that in soil as well we planted Ohio wildflowers, zuchini, squash, lettuce, watermelon, corn.

The spring ice show happened my kids loved it.  They are skating so much better and it was fun to see them make friends with the other kids.  Soccer started although only jones is playing Thea herself is busy making a sisters club on the sideline.  School is also wrapping up for the year and this year I procrastinated summer camps so we have limited options but most weeks we have plans.  

And life in a pandemic seems to be getting much more routine like.  All the adults in our house have vaccines and most of our friends parents too.   We take masks everywhere.  I also have Lysol wipes and sanitizer.  We still try and do outside activities when possible.  This seems normalized.

Oh and Uncle JJ came to visit (Kathleen too). That was a fun surprise and we did small adventures and had a really good weekend with him. It was so fun to have house guests in our new larger house. 

I have been working slowly on some quilting projects, a new spring art project, and my hexies are move along slowly too.  

We are looking forward to our family vacation in June and finishing out the school year.  

Quilt in Progress

This is an in progress project.  It started as a challenge with IMQG like 10 years ago where everyone brought aqua, orange, yellow fat quarters and we tore them apart and everyone took some.  I added in some other scraps I had of the same colors and I have been improving this guy it’s maybe baby sized now.  As I move outward I am adding in more low volume so it will gradually be white on the outter edges.  It’s slow going though.  I need more low volume scraps apparently I use them a lot (three other wips) have them.  One of my goals for the year is to make 365 days and I hope within this project I will finish this gal.  

9 - 10,000 Steps a Day

To say I am WAAAAY off my 10,000 steps per day goal for 2021 would be accurate.  

I have had like 2 good weeks were I did it 5x in the week (thanks spring break) but then I fall off again. I counted up my circles on my chart and I have 27 for the year.  This goal seemed like a stretch from the beginning but progress is the main goal not perfection. Remember that year where I ran over lunch almost daily?  Just little by little like 2011?? Well I don’t plan to run over lunch anytime soon I am so far from that but I think I will bring it back this time just by walking the loop at least once.  

6 - Quilt for Niece

My second finish of 2021.  I actually started and finished this one in the same year.  My brother recommended “millennium pink”. Which I had to google.  It’s basically like a light pink. I added in some other colors and then found a vintage sheet with those colors and used it too although mostly on the back.  The pattern is something I have seen before but I don’t know where I just winged it as I did it.  I quilted it in like a light purple thread which is almost impossible to tell from these photos.  I made a little tag for it.  I do like to include the babies name but since we don’t yet know her name I just signed mine.  I love the softness of the quilt because the backing is vintage sheet it’s Super soft.  Anyhow I can’t wait to meet her.  And I will say baby quilts sometimes are soooo quick maybe I need to make a few more.  

 

11 - Hang School Photos

Does anyone other than me love school photos?  They are so corny and usually awkward smiles/hair etc.  but I LOVE THEM!  

Turns out I also like the goofy sports pics too.  Same type of awkward with a uniform.  Anyhow months ago I purchased frames at IKEA for these and never hung them in our hallways I am missing a few years of preschool, I probably should have a place where I store such photos but I don’t.  But I hung 8 of them, not sure if I will swap them out as the kids get older or just add more to the walls.  I love seeing them as I walk down the hall, as a reminder of how much my kids have grown in the last few years.

In other news I also hung more kids art in the kids bathroom. I am hoping they can create me more Oceanic and pirate themed art in coming months.  

That One Time We Had Covid

The last few weeks we have been in strict quarantine because I tested positive for the covid.  It’s a super weird virus because everyone in the house has NOT tested positive on multiple accounts.  My symptoms have been very mild to say the least as I only lost my smell and taste.  Everyone kept telling me horror stories so it was like waiting for the worst but it hasn’t come.  Both kids had moderate symptoms too but we still have another 5 days until they can return to school.   I feel very lucky to have to have had such a mild case and hope to have antibodies until it’s my turn for a vaccine.  

Staying home has been brutal because it’s soooo cold.  We have enjoyed the snow and we usually do walk around our neighborhood and when we see neighbors we tell them of our quarantine and they stay back (everyone’s been cool about it).  We also have attempted an ice skate rink in the front yard although i need to spray it again tonight as next week will be extra cold.  The entire week I have been able to work (luckily it’s been lighter meetings than normal). And it’s been nice having Lita to help the kids with school.  

Anyhow that’s it for the most part from our hibernation and over consumption of Netflix.  We are more than ready to return to regular programming soon. 

5 - Charm Quilt finish 2021

This charm quilt was made to replace the one that was stolen in my van back in 2017.  Charm squares are from fabrics from my stash as well as some from friends.  I love a charm square quilt because it uses sooooo many prints things you never would assemble together.  

The back is all random fabrics I had intended to use a single solid but then decided to use prints I would never put together in years.  

This is actually the very first quilting cotton I bought?  It’s a weird Michael Miller hot sauce print I have no idea why I bought it.  But I only just now like 20 years later at using it.

2020 List Recap

Surprisingly I complete 28 items from my list another 10 or I started but never finished as well.  So many things cancelled due to the pandemic, like traveling, thrifting, play dates etc.  I also didn’t hardly quilt which seems surprising since we were home more.   I did do a lot of home projects that weren’t listed because well we hadn’t bought the house when I made the list.  (Photo above is unrelated but from New Years)

Completed items.

1.MOVE - done 

2.Make bruschetta - done

3.40th List - complete

6. 40 before 40 - complete. 

8. 4th Birthday Party Thea - complete 

9. 6th Birthday Party Jones - Complete

10.Buy some “patterned clothes” - done. 11.Buy/Make new bed frame - done 

12. Up Average step count (currently it’s about 6000 on weekday and 10,000 on weekend).  Complete - Overall average 9k the weekend went way up and the weekday was slightly higher

12. Listen to a new podcast - complete listened to DropOut 

13. Launch a new training program at work - I think I launched like 10

20. Repair my pink/yellow quilt -done

22. Visit zoo - complete bought passes went 3x

23. Cross stitch something - complete

24. Get big calendar - complete bought 2

27.  Vote - done

28. Monthly “hikes” with my kids.   - we maybe didn’t take a specific one but we probably did 12+ 

30. Fairy house - done 

31. Donate socks - done. I gave them money instead

34. Get Chai with Kathleen - done

36.  Play date with Brooks - playground

37. One second Everyday - done 

38.  Help jones with his you tube channel - done

40. Swim laps - done 

46. Make doughnuts - done 

47. Summer bucket list - done 

48. Find Jones a Summer camp - done 

50. Music jar - done

52. Make new list - done

16 Cheese Please 2021

When talking about goals for this year we wanted to have one like Kathleen’s where we get to explore flavors,  she did banana ice cream, ginger, chai and now is on avocados.  She also collects things like soap or other “related” items.   We don’t really want to collect up a bunch of trinkets but we want to taste different things. So we decided to taste our way thru cheeses by trying at least 50 fancy cheeses. #cheeseplease2021 

Tonight we kicked it off with North Sea Cheese.  It was very a flavorful cheese you could perhaps taste some garlic or onion in it, and my kids surprisingly liked it.  We ended up giving it 2 of 5 Cheese wedges though because I wanted it melted into a grilled cheese.