Am I ready?

[threadwalker]

Erinwood IV this weekend. The kids have sprouted and I have shrunk, so nothing much fits that's appropriate for camping. I'm not sure which of us will be wearing the emperor's new clothes. The last month has been lots of sporadic sewing amongst triathlon training. So OF COURSE my muse has me working on my embroidery on BART over the last week instead of handwork on this stuff. Vexascious Muse! You drive me MAD!

Anyway,

Done:
1. Super N: green doublet, 2 shirts, 1 pair trews (from last year)
2. Miss E: 1 blood red italian and 1 lavendar italian; 1 shirt w/ blackwork collar (last year's); 1 apron
3. Me: hmm.... hat/head cover

Need to do:
1. Super N:
a. finish navy doublet: needs buttons and button holes
b. 2nd pair of linen trews/boxers. Need to finish seam ripping and replacing waist band - made it too small. Then add new waist band. (darn kid sprouted)
c. leggings - the last pair became skin-tight between when I made them and last month. (burn! darn kid sprouted)

2. Miss E
a. second shirt
b. cap? hmm

3. Me
a. finish reworking gold linen dress. Need to do finish work. Probably finish on BART.
b. finish reworking red silk gamurra. center front skirt closure, last few closures, and sleeves. Ugh. Time for sleeves?
c. finish over dress: enlarge arm-holes, make last 2 skirt panels, closures and finish work. (not sure this will get done. sniffle)
d. EBH Chemise: not sure of status. Need to pull it out and look at it. I have older, cotton ones. This is my "entirely by hand" chemise; pre-hand basted all the pieces and assembled by hand. Neck might be cartridge pleated. Not sure if it's done, though.

Well, I think I'll finish the kids' stuff tonight. N may need to wear sweat pants if I don't have anything handy to turn into leggings. My sprouting bean stalk!

I guess we're doing homework in the Corbie Cave once again tonight. LOL... Last night, while Miss E was running around and trying to figure out which dress she wanted to wear to play kick-ball in (kick-ball to happen after N finished homework), N did his reading outside the CC. He was lounging w/ his juice box and apples while I sewed. When he got stuck, he spelled the words aloud and I helped him work it out. It's so crazy that he's doing homework outside while I'm sewing in my workshop... it's so unlike how I was raised. Maybe he'll think of doing homework outside as an "adventure" and not "mom is so busy multi-tasking that I had to do my homework outside, nobody loves me".

I will never get an invite to join the League of Super Moms who keep their houses tidy and organized, who stay on top of school work, who provide their kids extra curricular activities (Scouts, team sports, etc), and who manage to sit down and "play with" their kids for hours at a time everyday. I flip flop between thinking "good enough is good enough; I am good enough AND I make lemonade out of every lemony situation" (and learning to "deal" with situations is an important life-skill) and "I suck. My kids are deprived and will one day look back and realize their mom sucked."

Boo! Negative energy sucks. Why do we see our own short-comings? I think we'll have a picnic dinner outside tonight, do the homework outside (while I sew) and then we can all play kick-"back" and "throw-back", which is what they call kicking the ball or throwing the ball back and forth. And Miss E can have her wardrobe change if it suits her as long as she does not sit in the grass. I think I may whip out a table cloth for the kid-table. I'll let them pick from my cotton/calico stash.

P.S. I had my WW weigh in today. Except for swimming Monday and yoga a week ago, I have done zero fitness since my triathlon (Beltane weekend for most of you). And I weigh... exactly the same I did right before that. Woot woot for counting points and balancing my crazy pre-tooth extraction trip to Cold Stone with sleeping (i.e. fasting) for over 12 hours!! (I figured I needed enough calories in my body to carry me through at least 24 hours and one trip to Cold Stone was the funnest way to do it.)

Anyway, that is great. And I want to get enough sewing done by 8pm tonight so I can hit the bike and weights in the gym for an hour. Maybe 10 min of running to "wake up" my leg muscles w/o harming anything.

Comments

[ysabella-dolfin.livejournal.com]

Just in case, I am going to bring Sammy's new brown linen tunic for N to run around in

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

that would be great... just a little less pressure.

by the way, gorgeous picture of you in the icon.

[ldyanna.livejournal.com]

When I look back at my childhood I don't remember the fact that we were so poor my mom had to make my dolls (I didn't know that then I though it was just cool my mom spent time making stuff for me.) I remember all the "traditions" my family had. It sounds like you are creating those type of moments to me.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

good point

[broider-barones.livejournal.com]

so should I bother to add in my muslin for my draping??? or are you too busy at present? -- ps I'm being casual this year since that is what fits :(

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

woot woot! let's do it!

It won't be blistering hot out. Bring muslin and some duck/canvas. As soon as I get the few items I listed up there done, I'm ready to sew for you. (The family will be set for another year and I have no "burning" deadlines for me/Farin)

see you Saturday! hugs!

[theiadora.livejournal.com]

I think its great that N gets to do his homework outside. It would have been Fun for me if I had been Allowed to do my homework outside.

Your kids are great, they do thier homework, they have other activities they get to do, they LIKE hanging out with their parents. They are more delightful to be around then some of the Nieces & Nephews I have that are the same age. You are a great mom. I think its more important to a child to come from a house where they know they are loved then one that is Spotless (which usually means no friend can come over as they will get the house dirty).

The kids that have every moment of thier lives scheduled out for them can't be happy, they have no time to just BE a kid. And that those schedules deprive them from the personal contact with thier parents.

And your teaching them how to multi task.... a good skill to learn early in life.

Woot on staying the same weight....

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

I won't have much to wear either, since none of my stuff fits. Go you for the weight stabilization, and for going to the gym tonight. I've gone to the gym 2 days in a row now!

[d-salie.livejournal.com]

AAAHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I'm not ready.

Still at work.

Supposed to go up tonite.

Still at work.

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

It will all come together. It always does. We're all gonna have a great time!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Why do you think that you aren't a Super Mom? Your kids are doing their homework (a very big deal) and learning by example how to make cool things.

Good job on WW.

Dude!

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

You are an awesome Mom!
WTH?
You sew garb for them, model appropriate behaviour, spend time with them, do homework with them, etc...

MY mother was a crappy mother.
Trust me, you do not share any mothering characteristics.
(Unless you hit the kids with a broom handle or a very large wooden cooking spoon.
Then you'd be like my mother.)

Re: Dude!

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

I guess it's all relative. I fall into the camp that says, "if you have to resort to physical punishment, you've already lost the battle."

Also, hitting teaches them to hit in order to resolve stuff. And if you don't have a better tool than hitting, you will lose control on the day it occurs to them to hit back and they are big enough to do it with force.

So I'm into stuff like time-outs, timing out the toys, canceling fun stuff, etc.