summer session partI

korvin has left the building... his mimi nancy came and flew him and his cousin away to new mexico for a two week break from his mother and mundane routine of cleaning his room. this is his second visit out west but the the longest time we have been separated in over two years. i am sure that i am feeling the pain ever more so than he. in fact he hopped right in the vehicle without even saying good-bye and groaned as though he been trampled while running with bulls when i asked him to get a photo.

the cool part is that nancy aka.. school teacher extraordinaire.. armed the kiddos with cameras and journals to document their journeys. there will be no lying around this camp session as there are chickens to tend and cherries to be picked. i am looking forward to knowing the boy that returns from this adventure. until then his sister will be focused on growing so she can surprise him when he returns.

hot glue mamma

like other mommy blogs there is an endless amount of subject matter to write about when it comes to your children...mine is no different. at the present moment he has a project which has become our project. i have two different feelings when it comes to the correct way of handling our project. i want him to do most of the work of course and try very hard to keep my opinions and fabulous ideas to myself. getting him to do this work is almost as painful however as me just doing it myself and trying to pass it off to his teacher as his creation.

but that is not really what this is about. in the midst of "our project" another one was started. and since i am making a conscious effort to be more crafty with him i agreed wholeheartedly. our mission: to find his recorder's casing. if we fail i offered to make him one... this of course prompted a whining fit stating thats not how it came..but we managed to get through it with minimal causalties and the process began.

why this is ridiculous is because i have two sewing machines...my mother can sew like an amazing grace..and yet i still turn to hot glue..

I have to say that he did pick out the fabric :)