Mind Shift by Genki Sudo

Pure art!  So clever!

Musings...on early mornings

The new alarm clock

My youngest daughter is not a morning person.   She can be quite the ornery in the dawn hours. 
Needless to say, these early school mornings have bee a wee bit difficult.  I am hesitant to venture into her room in fear of her wrath!

I had to search for a new alarm clock for her.  Something that she couldn't just press snooze and go back to sleep. Something that prevent me coming upstairs to wake her.
I found an alarm clock that actually has a "bed shaker" that you put under your pillow. It emits a loud vibrating sound and shakes your pillow.   That gave her quite the shock the first morning! 

I think it's something that may actually work for her.


Three days, and I have not had to go into her room.

We will see how this experiment will go!

Musings on ....crocheting

Beret

Although I knit, I have never learned how to crochet.  This weekend, with the help of YouTube, I have been teaching myself to crochet a hat.  I'm so impatient.  I don't want to bother with truly learning how to crochet....I just want the hat! 

2nd hat

The first one ended up looking like a beret.  The second one was more of what I was looking for and the third was in colors that I like.  The fourth is being done with left over sock yarn.  I would like to use a cotton gor the next one.

Sock yarn

I think I'm getting the hang of this!

Musings on...back to school

Back to school

It's that time again!  Back to school!  

After a summer of sleeping in and lazing about...It's time for early mornings and structure!  I have one child starting middle school and another starting high school.  Big changes.  Where has the time gone?  

It was a good feeling to have the girls getting ready for school at the SAME time.  They also rode the bus together. No more shuttling back and forth between the schools at different times.  I liked that.

All of the sudden it was 7am and I had an empty house.  How strange.

They came home at the end of the day, and seemed happy with how everything went.  It was a bit difficult to get the one to soccer practice.  She was very tired.  After practice, she will be even more tired!  No rest, cause we have a game on Saturday!

I love back to school time!