Today was the first day of school here. Bug started 4th grade and Fidget started Pre-K. Both were pretty excited about starting a new adventure.
Here Fidget is waiting outside his classroom before he could go in with his new teachers and classmates. The school my boys attend is an awesome school. It’s a Montessori school and they have combined classrooms for the Pre-K/K classes and the 1/2 classes. This means Fidget will remain in the same class for 2 years, with the same teacher and half of the same kids. They do a lot of hands on activities and they teach in a child led manner (despite the fact that NY is unfortunately a Common Core state).
I will say that Fidget was a bit hesitant and scared about starting something new, but he did it with no tears. He did try to make not one, but two attempts to leave with me, but once he was significantly distracted finding his cubby he was fine. When I picked him up at the end of the day he said he had fun, left his lunchbox in his cubby and was very distraught over the fact that he couldn’t bring his nap blankie, that I knit for him, home. He doesn’t quite understand that he’ll get to see it again every school day.
My day was a typical housework day and while I was sad that my baby isn’t a stay at home baby anymore I was glad to have the break and the quiet, even though it meant cleaning. I had the sheets off the beds and into the washer before we left for school, had them hung up on the line outside just after getting home, opened all the windows, had breakfast, put away some clean laundry, cleaned the living room and vacuumed it, put new sheets on the beds, cleaned one of the bathrooms, and gathered all the garbage and put it in the bin outside.
After all that cleaning I did manage to do some crafting. I’ve been spinning up some wool that I brought home from the Estes Park Wool Market this past June. After attempting to dye it, I found that it’s rather sticky (almost like there is lanolin that won’t come out) and it felted with hardly any agitation. Spinning it seemed to work better for it and I am actually liking how it came out – despite the fact the my fingers feel sticky whenever I touch it. I finished the second bobbin of singles last night before bed and today I wound it into a center pull ball and made a 2 ply today, all while watching a couple episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman on tv. The first skein I made, which I re-skeined today, is 140 yrds of DK/sport weight (13-15WPI). I also found that soaking the yarn in super hot water with dawn, followed by 2 hot water rinses and a conditioning rinse alleviated the sticky factor and the yarn is a bit softer. It’s actually a very pretty ecru color…not sure if I’m going to bother dyeing it. I think I might leave it plain.
Not sure what tomorrow will bring…I need to clean the other bathroom, at the very least. I’m hoping to do a little spinning. I’m thinking of having a giveaway contest on my shop facebook page when I reach 300 likes. I think I’m going to offer a skein of handspun faux cashmere as the prize. If you are interested, hop on over to facebook and give my page a like – if you want to make sure you get in on the contest you can request notifications whenever I post anything…it will go directly into your notice bar. 🙂
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