Camping, Applesauce, and Sewing

Before Labor Day weekend we talked about camping and discovered that Shekinah never slept in a tent. Daddy decided that would need to be changed, so he told her we would set up the tent in the front yard and sleep out. Well the weather did not cooperate and our front yard was a bit swamp-like. Rather than disappoint the youngest, we set up the tent in the living room sans tent spikes and slept with the windows open. Almost the same! Daddy decided the tent was sorta full so he slept on the sofa. They nicely placed many layers of blankets on the floor for me, but around 4AM I gave up and sneaked up to my soft bed and got a few hours of real sleep. Maybe mud would have been softer.

When you work for a quilt shop you never know what your next order will be. I do like the variety. This month I made a purse. I highly recommend "Aunties Two Patters- Bailey Island Hobo" for the clarity and simplicity of the directions. Some patterns require a masters in pattern reading, but this one was pretty straightforward. The hardest part was deciding which order to place the colors.

This one was a "design-it-and-see-if-it-works." It works. You could do a lot of different effects depending on the color arrangement.

School requires frappes some mornings, but icy frappes require fuzzy blankets.

School is going well, she is being stretched just a bit with physics and chemistry at co-op  this year and a part-time job. I like that I'm the "room mom" in chemistry, I'm actually learning something! I was introduced to significant figures and how they apply differently to addition and multiplication.

Shekinah still could use some extra with math and I found another math game that she likes. It involves three people. Each person draws a card (you can use any numbered deck of cards)and without looking at it puts it on their forehead. The third person adds up the numbers and says the total. Each person holding a card needs to figure out the number on her forehead by looking at her opponent's number, doing the subtraction. Who says their card first gets both cards. Most cards wins. You could do this with any of the operations depending on the skill level of the players. Add a challenge by playing with four people.

Applesauce day! Since everyone is in school or at work during the day, I decided to ask the eaters to join me in making applesauce on Saturday morning.

The goal was to be finished before lunch time.

Five baskets of apples five or six helpers we were pretty much finished by eleven.

I did start at 6:30 so I could get some apples cooked before they were out of bed.

Finding all the Fluff containers and lids, led to cleaning out one of the cupboards and purging the lonely lids and un-needed containers. Good-bye to a bunch of yogurt containers.

They even helped me clean up the dirty dishes...the lure of ice cream at McDonalds for all of us and a trip to the Re-uzit store for the girls might have helped.

This morning we ventured out of our comfort zone and attended a Lutheran church service. We (I) were invited to attend for a special service recognizing First Responders. It's nice to be recognized but it feels funny. The girls decided it wasn't so bad after all.