I was reading thru the "Week 2" post that I wrote almost 3 months ago, and how things have changed! Those funny noises the suburban was making? $2,000 later, they're fixed. We had to get the whole rear axle rebuilt! If we had driven it even a week longer, I don't know if the car would have even been salvagable, so thank God for small favors, I guess. I don't even want to talk about what the Dynasty has been up to. Let's just say our cars have been revolting lately.
David and I have a theory that if you have 2 cars parked next to each other in a driveway, they somehow communicate to each other. How else could our cars always seem to be breaking down at the same time?
Meagan's knee is pretty much on the mend. She doesn't complain about it hurting her and that's a relief. Meagan signed up for High School about a month ago(scarey that she's already old enough for High School). She wants to be on the swim team, so the coach suggested she be on the West Valley Fitness Center Swim Team. She's been doing that for about a month now. Fortunately she chose a sport that the orthopedic surgeon says is GOOD for her knee!
Meagan decided she absolutely HAD to make a dress for the Shakespearian Festival the 9th Graders are having next week. Guess who got to help her make it?
Meagan, I have to admit, is pretty handy, but she hasn't sewn much before. That is probably my fault, but let's not go there . . . Anyway, making an Elizabethan dress with a fitted, lined bodice, a split overskirt, a chemise and an underskirt is a bit of an undertaking for a beginning sewer (is that how you spell that? it looks like sewer - ie, where the toilet leads - seamstress then?) - and sewing all that in a one week period - especially when that week just happens to be the week before taxes are due - is a bit much! Did I mention the dress has grommets and braided trim? We did get the dress done - at 2:45 am the morning it was due. All told, it took us 32 hours to get the entire dress done. Before we started the dress, Meagan wanted to go in to fashion design and costuming as a career; now she is not so sure about that.
Meagan and I still aren't quite back to normal yet. I will have to post a picture of the dress when I get one. One bright note: Meagan's teacher loved it so much she gave her 100 points of extra credit. I have to say this much for Meagan - she actually did about half of the sewing on the dress. Of course, if she hadn't, I wouldn't have finished it for her, so am I rather impressed that she (and I) stuck it out. BTW, David put in all 18 grommets in the dress. He is an excellent grommeter (or whatever you call that), so if you ever need any grommets put in cloth, you know you to call.
I have been so involved with Meagan and her dress and the cars breaking down and taxes that I don't even know what the other kids have been up to. Aren't I a bad mom? Actually, I do know that they all spent spring break with their Aunt Kailien grooming dogs. I guess it's just as well, since I had to work anyway.
I do know that Cameron has been working on a shield for his Shakespeare project. He's in 7th Grade, not 9th Grade, but he's in Quest, ie, the gifted and talented program. All of Quest is working on 9th Grade cirriculum this year, so he gets to do a Shakespeare project. Cameron - and his dad - are making a big wooden shield with the Vernon coat-of-arms on it. As I was looking a stylized wheat sheaf last night for Cameron to put on his shield, it hit me: our coat of arms is a gold shield with a blue horizontal band on it and 3 golden sheafs of wheat. How ironic is that??? I'm incredibly allergic to wheat.
I told David this morning that I never should have married him because of my wheat allergy. He said, "OK." I said, "I'm just kidding!" He said, "Hey, it's better than squashed roses." To which I replied, "What do you mean, squashed roses? They're squashed morning glory."
If you want to see what I'm talking about (or perhaps even your very own stunning family coat of arms) just go to
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and enter the last name you are interested in. BTW, the squashed morning glory/roses are on the "Young" coat-of-arms, if you were wondering.
Now, just so Jarom and Amber don't feel slighted (like they're ever going to read this). Jarom wants to make a shield like Cameron is, and Amber wants to make a dress like Meagan. Amber couldn't wait, so she tried sewing a dress all by herself. It didn't work out so well (but then, she's only 7 and has never sewn before). I took pity on her and told her that in a few weeks - after I have recovered from Meagan's dress - I will help her sew a dress. Now I just have to decide if I dare to let her use the sewing machine.
Cameron, Jarom and Amber just got back from Kailien's. I overheard Jarom telling Meagan about his highlight of the weekend. Jarom said, "We had a silly string fight in Kailien's backyard and we sprayed silly string ALL over the place. She didn't even make us clean it up." Come to find out, they used 53 cans of silly string. (Kailien told me that part.)
Ok, that's probably wwaayyy too long for a blog, so I'll finish with a Deep Thought:
"If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that." - Jack Handy
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