Cleaning Lady

I will admit that I haven't been able to get it all done
and have suffered from
SuperMom Syndrome.

I have had to resort to having cleaning lady from time to time.
The night before she came I would run around the house barking orders for the kid's to
get their room picked up. 

oh the groaning and complaining

They would whine, why do we have to pick up if the cleaning lady is coming!!

This is completely understandable. But she was there to clean not pick up their mess.
How could she even get to the bathrooms over the
jungle of toys, clothes and other paraphernalia?

Fast forward, years later and I find myself once again
scurrying throughout the house.
This time it is to get ready for a quilting retreat.
I have been planning, cutting, organizing
and stacking projects for a
long weekend of
non-stop sewing.

I have my basket of red and green strips
and 4 patches for the APQquiltalong.

I have another stack that includes my blocks all cut out and sandwiched between fabric squares and design boards.
I cut out 40 blocks but do not have 40 design boards
or the space to pack them.
I finagled the few design boards I had along with
some squares of fabric and even a few squares of
batting so all my blocks are ready to sit and sew.

These two boxes contain two more UFO projects for retreat sewing. Does it count as a UFO if it is just cut out and I haven't started sewing yet?

 So leave it to one of my kids to say,
why are you doing all that cutting,
aren't you going to a quilt retreat?

Just like the prep work it took to get the house cleaned,
there is prep work to get ready to be able to
sew non stop for several glorious days. 
 

The only thing I may have forgotten to do is to
see if I could get a cleaning lady
to come while I am gone to clean up all the
mess I have left behind.

Hope you all get some time to sit and sew. It is good for the soul!

modalissa