As always once the end of May come and all of June there is a birthday every 2 weeks.  The only problem is having to plan a party, invite everyone and take care of all the details.  It gets taxing and repetitive.  Trying to give a child a party, but make it different than the child who just had their party.  But thankfully only one more birthday and then time off until August.

It is the second week of summer vacation and I am already wanting a vacation from the kids.  I guess that I just got used to me + 1 during the majority of the day.  And not having everyone else until after school.  Just in time for homework, dinner, baths and bed.  So all the extra fighting, crying, telling, whinning and what not is starting to wear on me.  But I am hoping to get some bad attitudes adjusted and hope that with solving that problem a lot of other problems might get solved as well.

Although, I have been buried in a pile of laundry for the past two weeks.  The kids were forced to clean every nook and cranny of their rooms and all this wonderful laundry had been discovered.  It is finally coming to an end and almost back to the point of just regular every day load of laundry.  And hopefully with the end of the laundry I will be able to sit back down, get the fabric, needle and thread back out and finish sewing.  I have a list of things that need to be sewn.  And I have not had a chance of late to even get anything on my list done.  All I hope though is that I have certain peices of mock garb ready for fitting in a month.  I know I can do it once I sit down and do it.  The only problem is getting a chance to sit down and do it.

I need more hours in my day.  More hours to sew.  More for my kids.  More to clean.  More to sleep.  Just more, how about doubles of me?  Is that even possible?  Is that something I would really want to do?  I mean, if there were more than one of you doing different things and none of them doing the same thing.  Wouldnt someone start getting a feeling of being left out?

Oh nevermind, just contemplating different things trying to ignore the everyday, no ones hurt, fighting.  Gotta love summer vacation.

Although on a bright side, I have enrolled our youngest into a preschool next year.  She will be going on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  That opens my schedule in a way, but also constricts it.  Oh well.  I am getting closer to being able to go back to school :D  and finally getting that degree.  Although what I want anymore I have no clue.  I think I might just work on getting a fashion/seamstress degree/certificate and work on that and solely that.  But who knows.  There is still time to think about what I would like to do.

I am almost done with Lord Shadow's Doublet.  I just have to finish up his sleeves and sew all the buttons on.  Then it is to his shirt and who knows what else on my sewing list.  Yes, I had to make a sewing list, I have soo many things I want to do and need to do that I had to write them all down.  I will take pics and post them soon of what work I have done so far.  Just need more batteries :(  I sometimes wish that I could just plug the camera into the wall and that it would recharge itself just like my phone.  But oh well.  We are not there yet.  And if we are...  Why hasnt anyone told me yet?

The kids are all to be released from school on Thursday.  So come Thursday night - 7 kids all summer.  I have yet to think how I am to survive this summer with the kids.  But I am pretty sure I will manage well.  They might not like it for the new chores and duties they will have now set upon them.  But I think there is no reason why I should do soo much when they are old enough and are becoming old enough to help out more around the house :)

Birthday season has begun in my house.  It starts today.  And for about the next month or so there is to be a childs birthday about every 2 weeks.  So busy with planning and having parties I shall be.  But all is good.  The children will know that they are well loved.

So I had started sewing a new doublet last week for Lord Shadow.  Although I havent had much time for sewing here the past week.  But oh well.  I will get it done eventually.  But here are the pics of what has been done so far.

I know I know, I have been amiss again.  I've been trying to sew some peasant shirts.  In which they had been going well until I got to the collars.  For some reason somewhere I messed up and they wont fit right.  So I am having to take them apart and redo them to make them work.  All with the help of my young, sweet, 3 year old sayiing "Mommy look at me"  or "Mommy watch this."  But all is good.  When none of the other children are at home, more of my attention is needed.

This weekend after growing frustrated with the shirts, I had decided to start a new doublet for Lord Shadow.  So far I have spent more time with kids, house work, or just running in general than I have had time to work on his doublet.  But oh well.  I will find the time some where some how.  And hopefully it will not mean more up past midnight because I finally have a free, uninterupted minute to sew.  Plus not paying attention to the time during said period is also a lil problem.

All the wee ones are doing good.  With every sewing project I do I get the question of "Is that mine?"  With my wonderful response of "I promise I will make you one, please wait."  I will get my schedule more in tuned and better organized some day.  But also as of late I have been hired out to family to fix computers.  Cant complain too much, extra spending money for helping them out.

Well, I must end this for now.  I have to run out the door.  Busy day again today.  Hope all are doing well.

I seem to have forgotten to keep up with my friends here.  As summer grows ever near, I am trying to get what I can done before all the kids are out of school and I am to be busier than all get out.

Things here have been well.  Although our wanted trip to Scarby this year is not going to happen.  But that is fine, there will always be more years in the future to do so.  Hopefully it will not seem like an extremely long time before TRF gets here.

Lately I have been looking at trying to take sewing classes.  Everything I know and learned I did on my own either just trail and error, books or internet.  But I think I am missing the concept on some things and am wanting to better my skills.  So hopefully I can find a sewing class for a reasonable price and get to it.  The only next problem would be finding time to take said sewing class.  Any one know of a cheap online sewing class?  Or one that offers a day care service as well?  Oh well.  There is always hope that I will find something that will match my needs.

Well, I must go for now.  Kids need to finish getting ready for school.  Hope everyone is doing well.