The hexagons are in sets of 8 now. We won't mention the ones that got sewn twice.... because someone got the orientation wrong when putting them together. Unpicking hand stitching is not rewarding at all. These should become a long column in the next few days. I'll prep some more hexagons to start the next row today. I have all day in the sewing room (with one kid pick up late afternoon) to play with fabric.
We had awards for Emily last Tuesday and Aidan this Tuesday. Emily's Freshman/Sophomore awards were an hour. Imagine our surprise when the Junior/Senior awards handed out a bunch of scholarships and ran over 2 hours! We will know for next year when both will be at that one. We got to Emily's right as it started so we were way in the back and no good photo taken. I did get one of Aidan on the stage getting his 4.0 pin to add to his academic letter. Emily wanted Wendy's as her after awards meal and it was a drive through. Aidan (and Greg and I) were hungry, so we pulled into Cracker Barrel on the way home and had dinner around 8PM. It hit the spot.
Wednesday - we had Tom's care meeting. He has stayed at 5 steps the last 2 weeks and needs to show improvement. He needs to be at 100 steps unassisted to be really released, however Medicare will only pay if improvement is seen. We did discuss assisted living, however if he can't improve then it will be skilled nursing. He is not happy, but more open to it. We have a meeting with an elder care Medicare/Medicaid consultant on Friday to see how all that works for payment and what is covered.
I just finished the 9th audiobook in a Scottish Bookshop series by Paige Shelton. It starts with The Cracked Spine and I really enjoyed this sleuthing mystery.
I just started listening to 'I escaped from Auschwitz' last night on my Audible account.
Meals this week:
Monday - Greek. I made falafel and tzatziki and picked up grilled herbed chicken breasts from Sams with their greek pita. I had mine with a salad.
Wednesday - stuffed peppers with a box of New Orleans Dirty Rice with some burger meat added to it. Normally I use the Rice a Roni Spanish Rice.
Tonight - I'm about to throw the brisket on the smoker for dinner tonight with a potato salad using potato's Emily grew and harvested a week ago.
Time to check the temp on the grill and then go play with some fabrics.
4 comments:
A whole day in the sewing room - that sounds deluxe! Those end of the year events do take up a lot of time, but it's so good to see your kids get awards for their hard work. We had to deal with something similar with Mike's mom several years ago - she wouldn't really cooperate with the therapists at the rehab place so they all of a sudden gave us five days to find a placement for her. I hope the consultant will helpful to you. Sending good thoughts!
I would love the Greek night food - sounds wonderful. Good luck on your FIL that has to be so stressful and now with all the rules maybe changing for what is paid and what isn't - where does the money come from to pay for the care etc. I wonder if it was easier when we went through all that with my mother about 10 years ago now.
You have some really smart awesome kids there and they also enjoy their there activities that they get into--you must be really proud of them--hope they realize what an awesome Mom you are to them!!! I am doing some actual sewing this week too--
hugs, di
A whole row of hexies can be tricky to orient correctly--ask me how i know...I think the bigger he piece the more the challenge, too..
Yours are looking really good...Nice to have a day to just sew...
enjoy hugs, Julierose
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