miscellany

That's all I've got today. Miscellany. If you can handle it, continue.

Today was crazy hair day at Lucas's school. I figured he would just forego getting his hair combed, as his hair is always crazy in the morning. But he had other ideas -- this wig, which was part of Max's monk costume from last Halloween. Yep, it's crazy alright. Incidentally, it freaked Eva out. She kept trying to get him to take it off.

So far this week I have logged between 9-10 hours in my studio organization project. Words cannot express how monumental this task had become. This is a picture of the fabric portion of the project, midway through. I'm happy to report that I gave away probably 40-50% of my fabric and sorted all that I'm keeping; it is now all in labeled plastic bins. I found scraps of many quilts I have made that I completely forgot about, found fabric that I bought for quilts that I haven't made yet, and generally was reminded of how much I enjoy fabric. It made me feel a little wistful.

Housework, laundry, correspondence, blogging, and pretty much everything else has taken a back seat to the studio project this week. This is both good and bad. Mostly good, because I can see that I might actually get this completed at some point. Hard to believe, especially since it is looking even worse than before I began...

I went to Enrichment tonight. We had a service auction, an activity I have been proposing for Enrichment for about the last 4 years. It turned out really well. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they were serving dinner. (I made dinner tonight, but I ruined it. I can't remember the last time I did that. I made Thai chicken curry, and accidentally put WAY too much chile paste in. It was so spicy as to be practically inedible.)

We played bingo to earn points to bid with. I was impressed with some of the services that people offered: one provided a portrait session for as long as it would take to get a picture you would like of yourself and all images on a cd, one offered to teach you how to make a quilt (that is huge!), one offered to do the temple work for 5 of your family names, another was 2 hours of de-cluttering/organizing, one was help planning a party or wedding (!). I hadn't decided on what my offering would be until we got there. For some reason, I couldn't think of anything much that I could do. I was toying with making a cream pie or a box of handmade cards. I went with the cards.


To my surprise, the cards were a hotly bid item! Who knew? A woman that I visit teach ended up winning, and she requested wedding cards. I won homemade rolls (I got those mainly for Lucas) and an I.O.U. for homemade pumpkin muffins. As I was leaving, someone gave me the m&ms that accompanied the quilt offer.

The woman that was supposed to be the auctioneer got sick, so her husband took her place. He was hilarious. So were all the bidders. People were combining their points to get something they really wanted or to help someone else to win. One sister gave all her points to another who really wanted the photo session (I was so happy that she got it because she would probably never do that otherwise). Everyone was laughing the whole night and I felt like I know the sisters in my ward even better now. When it was over, my cute friend & neighbor came over to give me the restaurant gift certificates she had won and offered to watch my kids while we went out to eat. So sweet! I consider the activity a huge success.

Another happy note: Eva went down for her nap today and to bed tonight with NO crying for the first time in over a week. Blessed peace.

I also got a big surprise today: my friend Katrina from Seattle is coming to visit! We haven't seen each other for several years -- she has never met Eva and I have never met her first baby, who just turned 1. Her grandmother died at the age of 98, so she will be in Utah this weekend. She and the baby will stay with us and hopefully we will have a couple of days to catch up after the funeral. I am so excited!