So, at the moment, school and getting ready to move is occupying most of my time. Let's start with school...



My kids are preeeeeetty darn cool. I have a lot of ornery boys, but it'll be ok. I usually like the ornery ones. In total, I will see approximately 105 kids a day. Yes, I said "a day." I've got the names of my homeroom kids down, but I'm still working on the other 80 kids' names. But I'm getting there. I started a 26-week writing project this week. Sounds crazy, I know, but it follows the letters of the alphabet. That's why it's so long. Anyways, I read a couple of the kids' A entries, and some of them are so good! I think we're gonna end up with some really good "alphabiographies." Life is good in sixth grade. I have fewer lessons to plan and more time to do it. I am really looking forward to it all.

As for moving.... we've been waiting to move for about a month now. The house we're moving into is being remodeled, and we've been waiting for it to be finished. We've spent a considerable amount of time doing some painting there. We have to be out of our apartment by Tuesday, which means everything moved out, apartment deep cleaned, and checked out with the landlord. Soooo, we're going to be packing and moving a lot this weekend. Which means a lot of my free time in the upcoming weeks will be spent unpacking and settling in, as well as keeping up with school and going to the Y. Which, I'm going to start doing every day, along with one of the fifth grade teachers from my school, starting in September.

It's going to be interesting!!

Row one? CHECK!

The stripes may have been a bad idea for my first project, because it's really hard to keep them straight. But, all in all, it looks pretty good! Here's hoping the rest of it goes just as well!

Soon and very soon

I have a working sewing machine again! Yay! Although, it is a different machine. I took my original machine (it belonged to my mom's mom) to be cleaned and fixed. I got it back, set it up, and was SO excited to finally get started on the sewing of my quilt. I got out a piece of scrap to do a little practice on first, since it's been several years since I've used a sewing machine. Turns out, this machine still won't sew. :( So, I called my mom, and asked if she would get me a brand new machine as an early Christmas present. And because she's amazing, she agreed. And even better, since she was going to be coming my way today, she asked my grandma (my dad's mom) if I could borrow her machine until I got mine. So, now, I have my other grandma's machine, which works, and I can get started on sewing my quilt! FINALLY! I will have pictures soon, once I've actually sewed some! YAY!

Tomorrow, Tomorrow...

...my sewing machine comes home! Tomorrow! It's only a day away!

:)

Sashing-Check!

All of my sashing pieces are cut and ironed! I considered starting to pin my rows together, but I figured that would best be done piece by piece, as I get them sewn together. With my luck, I'd stab myself several times if I tried to pin a whole row together before I sewed it together. So, again, I wait until I can get my machine back before I can do absolutely anything else. *sigh*