How to Spend a Sick Day

Oh.  Here is sweet little Morgan reading a story to her cousin.  This is before the runny nose (which she refuses to blow) and the fever.  She has the flu -- which kept her home from school and the indoor campout they were having.  She was not happy.

Conversation this morning....

Me:  Morgan, we need to take your temperature.  If you have a fever you can't go to school.

Morgan:  BUT MOMMMMM!

Me:  You can't go and get your friends sick too.  Put this under your tongue.  When it beeps, you can read what it says.

Thermometer:  BEEEEP!!!

Me:  What does it say?

Morgan:  Ten twelve.

Me:  No, honey.  That's 101.2.  You have a fever.

Tears commenced.  Medicine was taken.  A phone call was made to school.  But after she got over the initial anger she was happy sitting on the couch watching Nickelodeon and playing on her iPad for the rest of the day.  And I got to get a start on the quilt I'm making for the school auction.

Yes, I got suckered again.  This is my last time as room mother though so I probably won't have to do another one.  I've made one for Morgan's class (last year) and now I'm doing one for Brooke's class.

I was all happy before Christmas break when I was getting all the kids to trace their hands for me.  Ahhh.  Thirty-six kids.  What a nice, even number.  Perfect for designing.  Life was good.

I should have gotten more done over winter break but I just didn't.  Oh well.  Plenty of time left.

Then came Monday and Christmas break was over.  Brooke came home from school and said, "Guess what -- we got a new girl in class!"  Now the parent who doesn't want to pay more in tuition next year due to dwindling enrollment was happy.  However the quilter whose math just got all screwed up was saying swear words under her breath.  Thirty-seven is not a good quilt block number!

So I met the new girl while working at the school during lunch the other day and she's very sweet and I traced her hand too.  See?  If I had done it over break like I planned, it wouldn't have been an issue.  It just would have been done and that would be that.  But nooOOOooo.  Not me!  Procrastination does not pay!

Here's my rearranged design.  It just means a little more work with the school logo in the middle and a little more embroidery.

I got the fabric washed and almost all of the hands cut out.  I somehow missed a couple of kids but I'll track them down next week.  I do "lunch duty" every Tuesday and watch Brooke's class.

I have the blocks cut out and ready to embroider and then applique.  I'm just doing fusible applique so I don't have a bunch of edges to turn but I'll have a lot of curves to stitch around!  That will be on the agenda this week.  As long as the flu stays away!

I hope the flu hasn't gotten to your house!  Now I gotta get back to all this!