The Sewing Mom

Well, it’s almost official. Four more weeks and my daughter will officially be a Junior High student. It’s difficult for me to believe, time is flying by way too fast. It hit home though on Friday when she brought home her class assignments for the fall, yes, all ready!

For seventh grade, my daughter will be taking science, Texas history, band, PE, pre-AP math, pre-AP reading, and pre-AP English. Amazingly, she wants to appeal her science class assignment, she feels (and so do I) that she should be in pre-AP (advanced placement). Either way, I think she is going to have her work cut out for her next year. Advanced placement courses require much more work and often lead to more homework.

I’m going to need to make sure my computers have the most up to date software to handle any projects or assignments she’ll be required to do. I currently have an older version of Microsoft Office but would like to see about getting an updated version. Students can get a discount on Office 2007 Suite and I want to look into that. I just need to provide proof of eligiblity and then the order can be processed.

It seems odd that we haven’t yet ended the school year, and I’m all ready planning for next year. I just like to know we’re ahead of the game and not panicking at the last minute.

How do you prepare your children for Junior High or High School?

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I have been so busy lately and I apologize right up front to any of my loyal EC droppers who I have not been able to reciprocate with over the last day or so. Sometimes, as we all know, the computer has to take a back seat to family an real life and that is how it has been the last few days.

Besides having so much going on personally, my daughter is becoming more and more involved with softball again and, in fact, she is going to be trying out for a select team later today.

I have been doing some major organizing and catching up with paperwork as well as trying to get some sewing done. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re going to be selling at a show in July and I need to have some completed items to sell! I actually finished one of my all time favorite bags last night, but I don’t yet have pictures of it. I’m going to be making a bag organizer to go with it, so will post about that later.

In the mean time, I made this zippered bag last week. I love the flip flop fabric accented by the beach ball fabric and the green zipper. The zipper opens to a lined interior and there is a coordinating pocket on the back. The over the shoulder strap is about 30″ long. This is a great bag for carrying small items when traveling (i.d, etc) or for younger girls who carry the simple things, like lip gloss, cash and a cell phone! (oh those were the days!)

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