The Sewing Mom

When I picked my daughter up at school this afternoon she was smiling ear to ear, she was so excited she could barely get into the car.  My first reaction was to ask about her math test, I knew she was waiting to get her score back.  She told me right away that wasn’t what she was so excited about (they did not receive their scores yet).  She had papers in her hand and was trying to get me to read them.  I was driving, so I asked her to read it to me.

 The first word was “Congratulations!” and it went on to say that my daughter had written an essay on the subject “What the Pledge of Allegiance Means to Me” and hers had been on of 6 chosen to be read at the Veteran’s Day Celebration at her school this Friday!  The celebration invites veterans with children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews at the school to attend in celebration of what they’ve done for our country.

I am so proud of my daughter, she continues to amaze me on a daily basis and she has also confirmed to me again that she is an exceptional child.

I just returned from the mall, pretty much empty handed with the exception of a few little stocking stuffers I found. We don’t have a huge Christmas list, but there are a few individuals on our list that are difficult to buy for such as my mother-in-law. I have no idea what she wants or needs. What makes it worse is that she won’t actually tell you what she wants or needs. I could give her a pair of 5.11 Tactical boots and she’d be delighted, even though she would absolutely never wear them. It drives me nuts when I don’t know what to buy someone. I don’t want to get them something they’re just going to stick in a closet and forget about.

Why is it so difficult for people to just let you know when they like something or need something? Personally, I have no trouble doing this!

I realize I haven’t been sewing much in the last several months, but I really do enjoy it.  About a year ago I found a super simple pattern for a fabric bag and I’ve made quite a few of these.  Every one is made with different fabric, different pocket layouts, sometimes even different handle sizes.  Making these bags is what made me decide to purchase an embroidery sewing machine.  This bag is one of my favorites.  The flowers on the center pocket are all machine embroidered on my machine. 

I have been trying to get another blog up and running but have run into so many technical difficulties that I’m ready to chuck it and start over. I don’t believe it’s a problem with my host, but I can’t be certain. I’m not very techie so I’ve asked for help. I’m muddling my way through it and hopefully will have it online soon.

In the mean time, I’m always looking for possibly better and easier solutions. Virtual Private Servers would give me total control (not sure I’m ready for that) and give me the power to run pretty much any program on my own virtual server. Basically, they partition physical servers into multiple virtual servers and each virtual server then has the ability to run its own operating system.

This hosting system is somewhat advanced for me, but I know many of the people out there who are helping me fix my site that are advanced web developers and could probably benefit. They would be able to customize their server configuration and run their own software. I on the other hand, need all of this to be done for me.

I’ll keep you posted on my new site, I’ll be so happy when it’s all fixed!

One thing I really despise about aging (not that I’m old mind you) is that I can’t sleep.  I toss and turn and get up and down out of bed all night.  Then, when I do finally fall into a good sleep (out of sheer exhaustion), my husband’s alarm clock goes off.  I really don’t understand why he has it set so early, we live 10 minutes from his office, so it’s not like he has a long commute or anything.

Anyway, here I sit, wishing I wasn’t so tired and yet knowing I’ve got another busy day ahead.  I’m not a nap kind of person so guess I’ll just have to set a goal of maybe getting to bed early tonight to start the whole process over again.

How do you sleep?