What do you do to recharge when you’re running on fumes?  Your patience has worn to the point where if you have to “redirect” one more student, you’re going to scream. You don’t even want to step in your sewing room. Your normally pristine home looks well lived in. You literally want to hide from everyone.

Overwhelmed. Depleted. Empty.

When I get to this point, I generally need to take a day off – get in the car and road trip to a body of water.

That can’t happen right now. So, a mani-pedi and Starbucks chai tea latte were a good start once I got home this evening from a rather long day at school.

Here’s hoping an early bedtime and an hour spent reading for pleasure will refill enough to get me through tomorrow. That’s all I need. One day at a time.

Spring Break is coming!

The good news is, I’m halfway through my Reading Endorsement certification class.

The bad news is I’ve had to turn down several opportunities for quilt retreats, weekend get-a-ways, therapy dog visits and quilts for hire.

Sometimes you have to let go (albeit temporarily) of some things in your life to make way for others. It’s going to be June 1st in less than 90 days. Might as well have the reading endorsement to add to my teaching certificate. I had a secondary goal of losing a few pounds. That’s been a LOT harder, but hopefully still doable now that I have my healthy eating back on track.

Opening up my home studio up to private sewing lessons for kids has been very rewarding.  For next school year, I may look at adding Sunday afternoon and Thursday after school sewing classes to the roster.  We’ll see what kind of feedback I get.