Week of January 5 - 11

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to spend a little one-on-one time with each of my girls each week and hopefully teach them a few homemaking skills in the process. So, this is our first week of success!! Sarah, Megan, and Mariah each learned how to make these little, finger-sized dolls this week. Cute, huh? Hopefully, we'll get a little more advanced as the weeks go by. (Hopefully I can stick to my resolution as the weeks go by!)

Savannah is not so interested in dolls. She's sewing together a quilt top instead. Before you get too excited, just know that I have never pieced a quilt in my life. This is a quilt from the Humanitarian Aid Center. They gave us a bag full of 12 inch squares, we'll sew them together 10x10 and give it back. Then someone else will tie it and bind it. Savannah did lay it out in a nice pattern. This week I'll show her how to sew them together. I did do that a bit at an Enrichment meeting.

SPEAKING of the benefits of Enrichment meeting . . . (you didn't realize we were speaking of the benefits of Enrichment meeting, did you?) . . . I mentioned at our last meeting (while we were sitting around sewing cloth footballs) that I was hoping to make dolls with my daughters. Well, Sister Hansen, sitting next to me, just happened to have a whole bunch of doll-making supplies that she had bought back when she was planning on making ones for her granddaughters. Now her granddaughters are all grown and she knew she'd never get around to making dolls again and so, would I like to have them? Would I! She brought over such fun stuff! Stuff I would have had to pay alot of money for if I had tried to buy it myself! It's really going to be great fun! I love Enrichment! I love Sister Hansen!

Other topics of note: Kevin and I joined the local exercise "gym." It is a really small neighborhood place, but after one whole week of using it, I am really liking it and so is Kevin. We are feeling the joy of exercising once again as we look out from our warm, bright gym on the dark, cold, snow-covered streets. Yek!

We also had our first basketball games this week. Kevin is coaching Sarah's team and I am coaching Megan's team. Savannah is not playing this year. :( Sarah's team had two games this week. They won one and lost one. We don't keep score in Megan's league. When my team asked why they weren't keeping score, I told them it was because in this league, the team that had the most fun were the ones who won the game. From all the hollering I did from the sideline, though, you would have thought that it was the coach who made the most noise! Oops! There's just so much I want to say!!! I'll say less as the girls learn the game better. . . I think.