Hills, valleys, stars (Day 8 of 30)

I forgot to post last night and nearly forgot today. It was a busy day again. After it was done the apartment looked like the cavalry hit. Or a tornado. Maybe both. But it was just the result of a constant effort to had the children something to keep them occupied so that we could finish some drafts that need to be sent off together with fabric samples tomorrow. At least, the fabric samples we actually need didn’t get mixed up with the scraps, tiny cookware, Duplos, crayons and bits of origami paper that are the children’s property. They spend a lot of time packing, unpacking, wrapping, repositioning, rewrapping all of it. Making off with the fabric samples would be an honest enough mistake. After all was said and done I finally sat down to finish a quilt I should have finished many months ago. I am almost ashamed of this, except I honestly didn’t figure out how to quilt it until last week. (The only thing I’m ashamed of is that I’m actually THAT slow in figuring this out.) And then I did not have the requisite number of uninterrupted hours during which I’m awake to actually DO the quilting. Until tonight that is.