Cabin fever...

Do your days with small ones ever start off all wrong? Things were pretty hairy for me today. What do you do? Well 3 count'em three time outs before we could straigten the morning out. Since I have been pregnant I feel that I have lost my rhythm with them on most days. Hopefully that will end this summer.



If I stick to the routine, all goes well. So here we go. Finish the fiasco that was breakfast for which I actually took the time to sit down and eat a plentiful meal. Then we went upstairs to make beds and dress for the day.



I also took some profile pics of the girls for framed silouettes for the ol house like ones NieNie created of her family. The antique feel of the silouettes will be so romantic.





A little more time spent for freeplay and my KP duty. Then we suited up and took a walk together for some silence and exploration. Cleared the mind a little. Snow was melting and seagulls followed us for food.



Peanut Butter Cookies were our next trial. Two girls fight over who gets to do what. A little chocolate icing and some coconut later... ah but the end result was sweet and comforting.



A nice story about the Whale Snow and the Inupiat Indians then free play and some down time.



Soon Dada will home from his day of work. Yahhhh Dada

Shining, I mean Spinning

Today I had the opportunity to help out a friend of mine from the Artist Mothers Group I belong to. She is a weaver and art teacher at a local synagogue preschool. She is currently teaching a fiber unit and showing the children everything from quilting to weaving. Today's lesson focused on where the yarn comes from (in this case, sheep) for their homemade looms. The children were wonderful and interested. Lots of 3 and 4 year olds who knew of the spinning wheel as a dangerous instrument that enslaved one princess and put another to sleep until her prince could rescue her... now had a chance to see the beauty of the device in motion making yarn which they were then able to weave on a small loom with their teacher. The teacher read to them about the process of growing, shearing, washing, dyeing, carding and spinning... A pleasant morning sharing my craft with others.