I was SO excited on Monday night because my parents invited me and my oldest to join them for the Drums Across Kansas performance! My mom has always enjoyed drum/bugle corps and used to take us to see them when we were kids....I have fond memories of watching the Sky Ryders perform Somewhere Over the Rainbow and other fabulous songs and loved it when the drumline would bounc tennis balls off their drums. So to get the chance for the first time in YEARS to go see the drum corps again, I was so greatful and delighted to share the experience with my oldest daughter! I justified it thinking that she was the oldest, so she would be the only one old enough to stay up 2 hrs past bedtime.....and she's in band so she might especially enjoy it and appreciate what she was seeing these musicians perform.
Sadly, though, I learned the following morning that even at 11 yrs old, she is NOT ready to stay up later! She was definitely showing all kinds of signs of being OVER OVER tired! So add that to my already cranky mood......and my youngest who stayed up late waiting for mommy because she missed me, thereby making her overtired on Tuesday, too and those are some prime fixin's for a rotten day! We came to work, there was so much drama and noise! I was dealing with extra stress from some work 'issues' and we had record-high heat yesterday, so Nathan was also miserable! At lunch time, I decided that we were done! The good thing about a family business, is the flexibility to say, I'm sorry, the kids aren't handling things well today, so we've gotta take off and head home. I implemented 'Mandatory Nap Time' for everyone when we arrived home.
Well, perhaps it was the 64 ozs of Diet Pepsi, perhaps it was the foul mood I was in, I don't know, but I simply couldn't sleep! I was tired, don't understand why, but I couldn't get to sleep. So, I decided to do the next best thing--one of my de-stressing activities: Sewing.
I had a project that I started months ago, and after reading my friend, Amy's blog Raising Arrows where she did the same project; I was inspired to finish it. I was re-purposing/recycling a man's button-down dress shirt into a dress for my youngest. Here's the finished project:
