Weekend news

Saturday morning the kids both had BB games at 9am. Madison's team won 38-30 and she scored 20 points and played very well. Quinn's team got beat about 38-17 and he had 7 points. I hate it when they play at the same time! Madison had soccer practice from 11:30 to 1pm and after she ate lunch at home she went to Beppe & Pakka's for a couple of hours to work on a quilt that she and Beppe started. Glad she can learn quilting from someone because I certainly can't do it! Quinn and Nate played together for a few hours.

I started sewing some pioneer bonnets for Madison's field trip to the One Room School House. The students have to dress the part... a long skirt, apron, bonnet etc... the long skirt is required! I had to buy the long skirt ($3) and the shirt I found at Stuff in Iowa (used clothing) but I hunted all over for the bonnet and could not find one so finally I bought a pattern and made one. So, now I've just completed the 4th one. I'm on a roll. I figured that most girls won't have one so I'll just donate a few to the 4th grade. The first bonnet took me 2 hours but this last one only took 1 hour... so I've gotten faster over time. They certainly aren't perfect... I bet I haven't sewed anything other than mending in Madison's 10 years of life! Isy got a good laugh at the expense of my sewing machine when I called to ask her a sewing question. I told her my machine is at least 25 years old, probably has never been serviced or oiled and that I had already broke one needle (I'm up to two now... on cotton fabric!). Ha! I'm making due and the fabric is actually miraculously looking like a bonnet when it's been transformed by my machine. Shoot, I'll just give you a picture of Madison wearing the first bonnet.


Last night we had quite a bit of ice... not as much as you got in Iowa but enough to cancel many churches. Well, in 16 years Silverwood has never cancelled a Sunday morning... nevertheless I thought I would check the news this morning just in case... nope, not there as expected. So, we rushed around (like all Sunday mornings) and drove to church early because we were greeters only to find a note on the door that said church as cancelled! Can you believe it? No TV news announcement, nothing on the radio... SO, everyone DROVE to church to find out that church was cancelled... OK, something needs to improve in the communication there. I guess we need a plan in place for the next time. The roads were a little slushy but really not too bad... we've driven to church in much worse weather before. We made the best of it and went to River Oaks Church with Matt & Lisa and met Don & Isy and Chad & Tracy there (they both go there already).

Tonight is our family movie night so I think we're going to watch Flicka... thanks to the Slabach family rental that we are benefiting from. I hope everyone has a good week.

Love to all, Leah
PS... Madison just broke needle #3... practing on a piece of 100% cotton fabric. I think my dinosaur of a machine might be the reason... hmmmm...