{"id":21553,"date":"2012-03-17T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=21553"},"modified":"2012-04-13T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T15:11:55","slug":"invasion-of-the-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/17\/invasion-of-the-grandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the Grandchildren!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re loving it.\u00c2\u00a0 For the past 4 days we have had various combinations of grandchildren 24\/7 and it has been so much fun.\u00c2\u00a0 But with homeschool, 6 year-old Robert, 7 year-old Laurel and now 3 year-old Alastair getting all my attention,\u00c2\u00a0 there has been no time for blog posting.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t give up on Janice Ferguson Sews.\u00c2\u00a0 I have some posts ready in my head&#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.\u00c2\u00a0 the story of the incredible, once-in-a-lifetime estate sale where I scored big time, with photos of some of my incredible textile purchases,<\/li>\n<li>2. an instructive (to some) post on pinstitch, entredeux stitch, their uses, differences and techniques,<\/li>\n<li>3. report on progress, observations, and tips about shadow smocking on Laurel&#8217;s Easter dress,<\/li>\n<li>4.\u00c2\u00a0 destashing goods for sale, with lots of tatting and lace (including Binche\/picture lace), Liberty and some neat commercial collars,<\/li>\n<li>5. Rebecca&#8217;s Bow Dress, two versions and details about\u00c2\u00a0 an heirloom dress and pattern by me,\u00c2\u00a0 published by Martha Pullen lonnnnnnnnnng, long ago,<\/li>\n<li>6.\u00c2\u00a0 updates on my fabulous Quattro and what it does for me<\/li>\n<li>and more&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will be back, because I really enjoy writing this blog and hearing from you.\u00c2\u00a0 But right now, while I have the opportunity, I&#8217;d rather read books in the tree house with Alastair, start a new quilt with Laurel and hunt the newly hatched\u00c2\u00a0 grasshopper pests infesting our yard with Robert.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Saturday, all three grandchildren, Bob and I are off to a local theater production of<em> The Jungle Book<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun!!!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, happy sewing to you all.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>Nana Fun:\u00c2\u00a0 Robert and Laurel arrived Tuesday evening for homeschool Wed. and a church supper that night.\u00c2\u00a0 Robert needed a haircut and they had just been too busy to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>Robert likes to look nice and groused a little about going to church with his hair so shaggy.\u00c2\u00a0 I told him I could trim it for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No!&#8221; he declared.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I need a REAL haircut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, Robert, I cut your daddy&#8217;s hair until he was 7 years old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Nana, it would just be <em><strong>gauche<\/strong><\/em> to have my Nana cut my hair.&#8221; (I&#8217;m beginning to think the kid reads a little too much.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Robert,&#8221; I insisted, &#8220;I even trim Granddad&#8217;s hair when he needs a cut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He rolled his eyes and sighed, &#8220;Yeah, and Granddad&#8217;s bald!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I just dropped the subject and he went to church looking like a 6 year old hippie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re loving it.\u00c2\u00a0 For the past 4 days we have had various combinations of grandchildren 24\/7 and it has been so much fun.\u00c2\u00a0 But with homeschool, 6 year-old Robert, 7 year-old Laurel and now 3 year-old Alastair getting all my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/17\/invasion-of-the-grandchildren\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21553"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21559,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21553\/revisions\/21559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}