Good morning!
Today there's no school for Alex (kindergarten) because of parent teacher conferences. I will still have the twins today. My day is pretty normal. I will do some laundry, some picking up, revamp my menu a bit to use up as much food as I can, and Alex and I need to work on his valentines. There's no school on Friday due to teacher comp day so the party is tomorrow. It's a short day so it'll only be 2 hours, so pretty much all they're going to do is pass out the valentines. I think they may make mailbags for the valentines too, if they didn't do that yesterday. Since these are kindergarten students, they're going to have a reading exercise by reading the names on the valentines they pass out then read the names on the mailbags. So that's going to take awhile.
For fun, I'm going to work on making valentines. I haven't made valentines for years--my valentine to my family is usually a really nice dinner. I'm still going to do that (no desire to go out on a Saturday Valentine's Day, and Friday isn't likely to be much better) but I thought I'd like to make valentines this year.
I've been doing pretty good with my scrapbooking project. I don't think I've explained that goal yet, so here goes. I have a foot-high stack of pages that have been mostly done for YEARS sitting on a bookshelf in the office. My big goal for this year is to make some major progress on scrapbooking. Partly to use up stuff, partly to clear out clutter, and partly so we can ENJOY the pictures. So my immediate goal is to get the almost-finished pages finished and into the albums. I've been doing pretty good with that. I'll try to finish a few more pages today.
I think I'll also work on cutting up more blue jeans into squares. A sewing goal is to make more fabric shopping bags. I have the .99 cent ones from the grocery store but they're starting to rip and fall apart so I need to make more. I'm going to cut up old/worn out blue jeans into squares then sew the squares together to make a big piece of "fabric" then use that to make the bags. So again, baby step 1 is to cut the jeans into squares. I'm using my rotary cutter and 6 inch quilting square so it is actually pretty fast.
This afternoon I have the usual drop off and pick up, with the addition of picking up a friend's son. He'll be here for about 2 hours then his mom will pick him up. Tonight the teens have church group.
I have no idea at the moment what dinner will be. I have some acorn squash I need to use so that plus whatever else I can think of and can find to use up.
It looks like a lovely day outside!
Have a great day!
Merilee
