From DD#3, a second-grader:
The poem reads:
Flowers for Mother
I never have a special day
To give flowers to my mother
I give them to her every day
To show how much I love her.
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When I sweep the kitchen floor
or care for my big sister
Run on errands or make the beds
I’m giving flowers to Mother.
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It’s lots of fun pretending
And you hear my mother say,
“Thank you dear for all the flowers
You’ve given me today.”
Love Grace
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This is one of the photos I took back in March when we went on our little spring break trip, from the Mayborn Museum in Waco. Go ahead and click on the image and see if you can read it:
DD#3 came home all upset last week, her field trip had been cancelled because of the swine flu scare.
Mind you, we live west of San Antonio, and the scare amongst the Austin – San Antonio corridor has been wild and wooly. In fact, our nephew’s here for the week because his school (including county and city districts) cancelled ALL classes for 10 days.Â
Although we have no confirmed cases in our area, the school is taking precautions and has cancelled all field trips (though, of course, not SPORTS events) until further notice.
But, the poor lass was so distraught, and I did absolutely NOTHING to dispel her disappointment … because, as she told me the “why” … I couldn’t do anything except laugh {badmom}:
Mommy, our field trip has been cancelled because of the SWAN flu!
Our children’s Sunday School director handed me these squares that were artistically designed by the children in our church’s daycare, and asked if I could figure out a way to put them together into a wall hanging for a local community center. Being the creative nut that I am, I have to envision my designs before I can actually begin working on them.Â
A little about the squares – I have no earthly idea where they came from. Each one has a little loop on each corner, and on the opposite corner they have a button on the back. I’m guessing they’re specifically made to button together, so they become a single something. They appear to be made from a linen, like a nice cloth napkin or tablecloth. The challenge for me wasn’t just the buttons (which would certainly break my needle, were I not careful) … but, also that the squares weren’t SQUARE! 🙁
I finally decided my best course of action was to buy pre-quilted fabric, and sew the squares as a buttoned unit to the pre-quilted fabric. Ideally, if it were a project that I had created, I would have removed the loops and the buttons – but, I didn’t want to ruin the integrity of what these children had done, so I left them alone.
Instead, I just sewed each square to the prequilted fabric in a cross pattern – all the way down the rows and all the way across the rows….then I stitched a seam all the way around the entire set of blocks to hold them in place. Then, I turned the edges of the fabric on three sides and added a rod-pocket to the top – showing off the back of the pre-quilted fabric, to give it a little zing.
I sure hope she likes it!
