By My hands

First...the Easter dresses. I used the same pattern but let them kind of choose the fabric. Emma wanted plain brown(???) so we compromised on turquoise and brown. Anne Michal's is the red and white and Elizabeth's is the blue and white.




I have had the fabric for this dress in my stash for several years proving that sometimes just the right dress comes along and the stash is such a useful thing to have.


Next are short I made for Jack to wear on Easter. I may just have to make all his shorts after this because there is no way these are going to fall off his skinny little waist. ;-)


Last some bermuda shorts I made the girls using this pattern. I took pics from the side, front and back. I love how tailored these are. I did forget the tabs on the red and blue ones.
I do wish it weren't so hard to find good quality fabric that didn't cost a fortune. This fabric, actually wasn't cheap but notice how the brown pair has faded. I made these several weeks ago and I think they have been washed 4 times. The others I just finished today. It is very frustrating. So just consider them a vintage look! ;-)

Visualizing world peace

Miss Universe paid a visit to the Guantanamo Bay military base and declared it "a lot of fun!" After seeing the detainee camps and recreation areas, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela said, "I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful."

Life imitating art

An Iowa 13-year-old was arrested for biting 11 kids at his school. His father said he meant no harm, but was obsessed with the vampire movie Twilight. Good thing he wasn't obsessed with the movie Silence of the Lambs.

Having God as your co-pilot

A Tunisian pilot was sentenced to 10 years in prison because he paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people.

Quick Thinking

A woman caught driving 103 mph on an Oregon road with her 10-year-old grandson in the car explained to police that she was only trying to teach the boy never to drive that fast. I wonder what the boy took away concerning lying to the police.

I promise

our kids do have beds. Nice comfy ones...

Emma masters phonics

I am a bit tardy posting this but a couple of weeks ago Emma finished her phonics book "An Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading." She has been a good reader for a while but we are now officially done and moving on to more of a literature program while continuing to work through Explode the Code. She and I celebrated with a trip to Maggie Moos.












It is amazing to think how quickly she has grown from the little 3 year old who would lounge on the couch with "War and Peace" or the current day's classic and "pretend" to read telling us things like,"I am on page 97" or "Can I finish this chapter first?" Now she can really say those things!!