The Sewing Mom

For whatever reason, this past week seemed to drag on forever.  It was busy, filled with work and activities, but it seemed like the weekend would never arrive.  Thank goodness it did!

I managed to work a little bit every single day this week, no days off.  That’s good news considering recently my paychecks have been a bit short due to working fewer hours.  I try to work a minimum of 20 each week, but there have been cuts and I did have one week in August that was only 7 hours.  That was a painful paycheck!

My daughter has been extremely busy with school, tons of homework, a few projects, band and softball.  The homework is much more than she’s had the last couple of years and so I have to hope she doesn’t get frustrated.  Most of the work is in her French and Math classes, both of which she is earning high school credit for (she’s in 8th grade), so I do hope it’s all worth it.  Band stepped it up a notch this week too because they had their annual tailgate party.  This is an event that includes all of the bands from all 3 middle schools, plus the entire band from the high school.  When you add them all together, it fills a football field with around 1,000 kids!

Due to band, she did miss her softball practice, they were on the same night.  She will have batting practice this afternoon.  I did work Saturday morning, 4 hours, but after that, I managed to have some much needed down time before a friend came over to look at our drywall damage that was caused by our water heater bursting in the attic a couple of weeks ago.  I think he’s going to try to repair it sometime this week, not sure yet.

I think I’m going to head out for a nice walk around the neighborhood (1.5 miles) to get my day off to a good start.  It’s my one day this week that I’m not working and it’s a beautiful morning outside.  I hope everyone has a beautiful Sunday!