Winter has definitely found us (finally killed the fleas!!! YAY).
There has been a picture floating around Facebook for awhile, it's a link to blog where a genius made her daughter a nice, warm, winter poncho... Us parents know you aren't supposed to buckle your kids into their seats with their coats on, it loosens the belts up and makes it unsafe... and it is a HUGE pain in the rear to take the coat on and off when making a bunch of stops-but it's necessity.
Then comes this lovely mommy-genius over at Reality Daydream blog. She made her little girl (cute little thing) a nice warm poncho for such a time as this... Her tutorial is in the link, it's easy, a lot easier than it sounds.. My sister in law saw me share the picture and enlisted the help of my mom to make her little girl one. She loves it so much I decided to make Hannah one, too.
This lovely genius-mom idea allows a nice warm coat, a hat that's harder for my little one to take off (and it's soft, so she likes it), and it can stay ON HER while buckled... Flip up the back side so there is nothing between Hannah and the seat, buckle UNDER the front side so she stays nice and warm and safe.
I did get the hood a little big, and the only thing I messed up on was when I cut the circle I cut on the fold instead on the open side of fabric resulting in one layer being two semi circles vs a circle, so a few extra seams-but that's ok.
Even with the help of all three big kids, this took me 2 hours... Well, 3, but I did had to stop in the middle to take care of Hannah. Most of it was scrap fabric from previous projects-the brown minky fleece is from Hannah's baby quilt... The white minky fleece I found 1/2 yard piece for $1.50 in the Walmart ends bin.
We've only used it a few times, but I'm loving it, and as you can tell from the big Hannah grin, she loves it, too.
In other news, we are more than half way done with school.. We are at the point in Andrew's lessons where doubling up is no longer an option as most of the reviewing is over, so a lesson a day, we have 68 lessons left. Barring major sickness we should have no problem getting done before vacation. He is reviewing his cursive.... I don't want it to be perfect, but I do want to know he can write it legibly. We basically just started the cursive over again and most letters he is doing awesome at. That's the beauty of homeschooling-you can go slow, or completely stop and master a problem area before moving on.
Our shopping is this weekend. The next few days will be busy for me getting everything ready for that and keeping Hannah happy. She hasn't been feeling good at all.
Have a great week and stay warm!
~Tabitha
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