I wish we were able to take life at a slower pace these last few days before school starts, but we’ve got a very full agenda. The most important thing we have on our list is Sam’s surgery tomorrow. He has to undergo another round of treatment for his hearing problem. The tubes that were inserted a little over a year ago have worked their way out and his hearing has become significantly poorer since then. He’s also going to have his adenoids removed, which should help decrease the number of infections he gets in that area. I hate that my baby has to go through all of this, but hopefully, it will help him. He doesn’t want to be struggling to hear things in the classroom–it makes that already challenging environment even more difficult for him.

Of course, we had to get all of our school shopping done. The kids are now fully outfitted and supplied. Usually, I’d take Sam in for a haircut, but the short summer ‘do he got a month ago is still in good shape. Claire is the one who needed serious help with her hair. It had grown very, very long and was prone to tangling in the worst dread-locky sort of way. If she were a tougher kid, I wouldn’t mind combing it every day, but our daily sessions had turned into torture sessions. She agreed to having it cut much, much shorter.

Here’s the Long of It:

And the Short of It:

Pretty darn sassy, no?

In the middle of getting everything in order for the surgery, and taking care of all our chores, I’ve been working on a cute little jumper for Claire:

My goal is to use up a lot of fabric that’s just uselessly occupying space in my closet. The problem is, I often don’t have enough of things to use them without some fancy piecework. This jumper is going to have some unusual seams. I hope they won’t detract from the overall cute-factor or wearability-factor. We’ll see…

I’m also packing up a few things to keep me busy in the hospital tomorrow. I think I might take a little embroidery project to work on: