This was a super day - beautiful and sunny morning, followed by a day of happy, creative students. I read a great book called Squarehead to the kindergarteners, and their illustrations were even more hilarious than the originals. I came home to find this delightful postcard from Zhenia in my mailbox. 
Faced with a few super-ripe bananas, no good options for lunch tomorrow, and a husband who was at a fantasy football draft, I decided to do some cooking. I made banana bread, chocolate chip cookies, and pasta salad. It was more cooking than I have done in... well... let's just say a long time. It felt good - and made our kitchen smell good! 
And to make the evening better, it is a four day work week! Over the holiday weekend I picked up the new quilt for the guest bedroom - notice the kitty in the window - she's not so sure about the change. I worked at Reminisce on Saturday and on Sunday we went to see Snakes on a Plane (totally entertaining) with a couple friends *and* I actually went to the *gym* (whoa). Yesterday I did a little scrapbooking and mowed the lawn. My favorite page is below - photos from when we stayed at the W hotel in Chicago in June. It is a terrible blurry photo of the layout, but I Love that patterned paper!
Phew! Lots has been happening. Today we also found out that Bill's brother and his wife will be having another boy in January! Bill loaned his car to his aunt and uncle for a road trip, so he brought home a Mustang convertible from the dealership tonight. We finished the evening by driving around with the top down...
Crafting from this week: a mini-shrine to beautiful buttons, and a goofy looking flower-shaped pincushion. But, it was my first pincushion ever, so I'm feeling pretty good about it overall. Have a happy long weekend, all!
Friday night I finished our Honeymoon scrapbook. yeah! It feels great to have it done and flip through to remember the experience. I'm sure we will enjoy looking through it for many years to come. You can see the whole album on Flikr, if you so desire. And we cleaned the basement today! That was a BIG accomplishment. It had been accumulating boxes and *stuff* since I moved in last summer, so we tossed some things, donated some to Goodwill, and mostly just straightened, reorganized, and cleaned. It looks wonderfully livable again.
I've survived the first week of school. It went incredibly fast and felt long at the same time. My room is newly waxed and all rearranged. The crayons, markers, glue bottles, etc. are all new and plentiful.
It is always interesting to meet the new students who have moved in over the summer, and see how much all the others have changed. It also takes some time to readjust to getting up early every day, making it through 8 hrs. of non-stop action, and training my bladder to only go to the bathroom at certain times. Those little 5 year old kindergarteners can really drain your energy, but they are also so sweet and creative (see great drawing by one of my students above). Alright - on to next week!
So, I've been thinking about getting a new bedcover for our guest bedroom bed (which is also my art room - so it would be nice to have something pretty to look at). My mom spotted this one in D.M. and I think she could pick it up for me with a 40% off coupon, so, what do you think?
This was a super day - beautiful and sunny morning, followed by a day of happy, creative students. I read a great book called Squarehead to the kindergarteners, and their illustrations were even more hilarious than the originals. I came home to find this delightful postcard from Zhenia in my mailbox. 
Faced with a few super-ripe bananas, no good options for lunch tomorrow, and a husband who was at a fantasy football draft, I decided to do some cooking. I made banana bread, chocolate chip cookies, and pasta salad. It was more cooking than I have done in... well... let's just say a long time. It felt good - and made our kitchen smell good! 
And to make the evening better, it is a four day work week! Over the holiday weekend I picked up the new quilt for the guest bedroom - notice the kitty in the window - she's not so sure about the change. I worked at Reminisce on Saturday and on Sunday we went to see Snakes on a Plane (totally entertaining) with a couple friends *and* I actually went to the *gym* (whoa). Yesterday I did a little scrapbooking and mowed the lawn. My favorite page is below - photos from when we stayed at the W hotel in Chicago in June. It is a terrible blurry photo of the layout, but I Love that patterned paper!
Phew! Lots has been happening. Today we also found out that Bill's brother and his wife will be having another boy in January! Bill loaned his car to his aunt and uncle for a road trip, so he brought home a Mustang convertible from the dealership tonight. We finished the evening by driving around with the top down...
