Walking Backwards

Nicholas just went to sleep about twenty minutes ago and I think I kept him up too long. He was not in a great mood when we put him in bed and spent the better part of the twenty minutes before he fell asleep screaming. He didn't have a very long nap today and Seanna, Ray, and Aiden came over for dinner and boardgames. Aiden and Nicholas had fun, fought over toys, pushed, and ran around the house. I had a very tired munchkin on my hands.

While the two boys played, I had a good conversation with Seanna about putting school on hold for the summer. She has decided that she is taking the summer off and it sounds good. She stopped waiting tables a couple of months ago and says that she wants to spend some time enjoying life with her son. She also wants to develop some social and creative interests apart from engineering (because you know what a barrel of fun engineering programs are like). I asked what her plans were and she said she was going sans plan. Lots of time by the pool, trips to the library, reading for pleasure. *Sigh* It sounds nice. I still have to talk to the advisors for my next school to determine my course of action.

I did get to exercise some personal interests today. I went by the Quilt Store and picked up fabric for my next quilt. I'm doing a dios de los muertos themed quilt. All of the fabric is patterned with skulls or lotteria cards, you get the idea. It should be cool if I ever get to finish it. It is only going to be 48"x48" with a border, so it shouldn't be that difficult. It is just carving out the time that I don't know about. I'll post a picture in a bit, but it is now almost one (thank you SO much daylight savings time *please note sarcasm*).