Stolen from SAJ.

I love her, but I don’t know where her fashion sense comes from.

The last week has been crazy.

The temperature has been steadily rising, which means I’ve been just as steadily retreating into he darkness of the house. Which also means that I’m not getting nearly as much done as I should be. It’s very hard to get anything done when the curtains are closed to keep out the heat so you can’t tell the sun is out because it’s so dark.

My living room is clean, if you ignore the mountain of laundry to be folded and put away. The kitchen is a work in progress. Hopefully *fingers crossed* I’ll get it finished tonight. Not counting he floors. They can wait another day because I have to finish the laundry first.

In the last week I’ve completed a custom apron.

Taken a custom tote order. (KJ the pattern is here!)

Spent a lot of hours at the fabric store.

And made more coffee sleeves.

It seems my fabric stash never shrinks in size. Every piece I use is almost immediately replaced with another. I can, and do, spend hours in the fabric store just browsing and getting inspired. It’s very hard to just run in and get the one item I need without oohing and awwing over all the others.

Next week Sue is taking Rapunzel up to Northern California for a bible camp. I’m helping Great Grandma while their gone, and hopefully, will get lots of sewing done.

Yesterday SuperChic was pushed down by another girl, we’ll call her D1, on the way home from school. D1 constantly calls SuperChic names at school and on the way home so it really didn’t surprise me. Rapunzel chased after her and grabbed her by the shoulders telling her that she needed to apologize. D1 then started punching Rapunzel in the stomach.

D3, a friend of D1 and her brother D2, started hitting Rapunzel with his water bottle. Then D2 hit Rapunzel in the face with D1’s back pack, causing Rapunzel’s lenses to crackle like the paint on an antique dresser.

The school district has a “no combat” policy. Everyone involved, except SuperChic because she didn’t fight back, were suspended for one day. Lucky for Rapunzel her field trip wasn’t until tomorrow. She probably wouldn’t have been suspended but the one girl who was on Rapunzel’s side and saw what happened had to leave before the VP was finished talking with everyone. It came down to D1 and D3 against Rapunzel. Two to one, the VP had to side with them when they said Rapunzel grabbed D1 by the neck.

While the suspension sucks, I’m very proud of her. She never hit anyone, even though she wanted to. The VP and Principal even apologized that she had to be suspended along with the other kids.

The school says that they’ll pay to have Rapunzel’s glasses replaced or repaired, but I don’t know what to do about it. She was due for new frames and lenses anyways. We were going to have to wait a few weeks to get them, but it was time. Do I have the school pay for them or just take care of it myself?