Snow Days are Sew Fun

The kids and I made pajamas during nap time yesterday and they turned out great!  

They picked out the fabric before the last snowstorm and have been waiting anxiously for another snow day to make them. I'm glad I saved them, it looks like we'll be home for the long haul this go around. We got even more snow this morning and another system is headed our way before this one will have a chance to melt. Yesterday was pure greatness. No school for the win! 

I call the above pic, "big hair don't care" 24 hours later and I am rocking that same pajama outfit and nasty bun. Kust keepin it real for you all. Corbin and Quincy were very still and sat on my lap while I sewed, with their right foot over the top of mine, helping me use the presser foot. Not surprisingly, Quincy was obsessed with where the thread went and how but stitched into the fabric with the machine. 

Reese was elated when I let her do her own sewing. She did wonderfully and I have no doubt that her creative talent already surpasses mine. The only thing I've got going for me is knowledge and experience, which she will gain in time...hopefully with less cursing than I may of may not have expressed over a few sewing disasters of the past. 

The results were darling. 3 happy kids in new handmade Jammie's. they were so proud of their accomplishment. 

And what the other 20 pictures looked like while I tried to get a non fuzzy pajama shot: 

Anyone else think it's a dirty trick for teachers to email a mountain of homework assignments to do on the snow day? My thinking is this: if the kids have to make up school in June when they would/should be on summer break with their families, let them actually have their break now and do the work on the makeup day. Today we're read 75 pages of the cooper "read together" book. I don't think they need to spend 2 hours practicing spelling words and doing math problems too. I hope we get the whole week together, but at the same time it just doesn't feel like a fair exchange for summer break when the teachers send home assignments. 

Anyway, Snow Day #10 is today. What adventures will we have? 

What are you doing for fun this week?