Helping Out

What is your least favorite household chore? Mine is housework. But if I had to be more specific, it would be sorting through clothes after each season. It often turns into boxes of clothes that sit around the basement for months on end. I saw this great tip online and made my own "laundry folder."

Annie had a ball and went through her entire shirt drawer! I'd say this method is a winner...even big sister is asking to fold clothes now.

Working Out

We're getting fit at the Wilson house. From better food choices to getting 10,000 steps a day, someone has been watching.

Music in Our Schools Month

Every March is Music in Our Schools Month. In Nebraska, a select few groups are invited to perform in the rotunda of the Capitol building. This year, two of the ten groups were from our little school district. I was thrilled when Dayna's choir director asked if I would go along as a chaperone. It tickled me even more when she asked if I would be willing to accompany the choir on piano. This was possibly my favorite thing to get to do as a mom with Dayna during her elementary school years.

Dayna signed "America the Beautiful"

February Projects

 My needles have been clicking, and it's been a fun month with new projects.

The finished Briony socks

A scarf for Dayna's teacher (ssshhhh...don't tell, it's still a surprise)

And a scarf I had put off finishing. It was a little scary to knit the whole thing, then intentionally drop stitches and unravel the whole thing in multiple places. But the finished product turned out really nice. The name of this one is "Dropped and Found."

And the project currently on my needles is the "Simple Skyp" sock with my birthday yarn from Alaska.

Viola Swamp

For Read Across America, staff and students were invited to dress like their favorite book character. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to come dressed as Viola Swamp, Miss Nelson's alter-ego in the book "Miss Nelson is Missing."

Fine Arts Festival - Cello

After her audition in the morning, Dayna and I went to tune her cello with the piano I would use in performance that night. It was there we learned our first lesson about tired cello strings. After a frantic trip to Lincoln for new strings, and a gracious visit with her cello instructor to restring the instrument for us, we were good to go again.

It turns out her cello performance was second from the end. The final performer was running late, coming straight from a basketball tournament. After she performed the piece she had prepared (Minuet No. 2), we filled time until the final performer could arrive. I'm so proud of her poise and preparation to play pieces she hadn't planned to perform (and my high school English teacher would be proud of my use of alliteration in that last sentence!)

2016 Fine Arts Festival - Piano

A new fire has been blazing in Dayna and her personal discipline where it comes to her music. She has been voluntarily getting up around 6:00 every morning to practice before breakfast. This drive paid off last weekend at the local Fine Arts Festival, where she took Best of Show for her piano and her cello performance.

Enjoy "Old Castile"