Summer arrived, but bleh. I just want to hole up on the couch with some knitting and a movie. The garden is doing well, despite my lack of attention. The weeds aren’t totally out of control (yet) but I really need to get on that before it becomes a mess. It’s properly hot, this summer, which is a nice change from previous years when it never stopped raining or never got hot enough for the pools to open. My poor peas are already turning yellow, just as they’re barely starting to produce (I knew it would probably be too late for them, but planted anyway. Oh well – maybe I’ll do a late summer/fall planting?)

This next week-ish is going to be Crazy (yes, with a capital C). The 3rd marks my 32nd birthday, and while most years I tend to bake my own cake – and I fully intend on doing that again – I know life is against me here. I might bake a cake – I really just might – but it will probably be ugly and broken from a certain child who loves to “help”. I have no idea how else to celebrate the day. The pool, maybe? Who knows. Honestly, I’d be happy if I just had hot coffee ready for me first thing in the morning.  And maybe not having to cook breakfast. If I’m getting greedy, I’d love to take a long hot bath first thing while sipping coffee and ease into my day while aforementioned breakfast was getting made for me. That right there would be living the dream, my friends.

Then, of course, there’s the 4th of July and all the necessary celebrations involved in that. Food, fireworks, late bed times…

On top of that, my sister is getting married the following week. Being the overachiever that I am, handmade gifts being my thing and all, I have a quilt that I started in December (before she even knew he was proposing) and am now in emergency sewing mode as I try to finish it with what little time I have. I have the quilting finished finally, and tonight I cut, stitched, and ironed the binding. All that is left at this point is to sew it on which will either be easy if I machine it, or time consuming if I hand stitch. My heart is in the hand stitching, but my logical brain says machine it. Especially since I’ve been put in charge of making the gluten free cupcakes for the not-actually-Celiac wedding guests. (Don’t even get me started on that. It doesn’t end nicely.) So on top of last minute gift finishing there’s cupcakes to bake, and then trying to find my buttercream recipe for decorating them… And hoping they look passable and not like they’re home made/decorated. I think I can pull it off, but it is going to require some late nights of doing work ahead of time after the kid goes to bed so there’s no little fingers dipping into the batter or icing.

Sigh.

One thing at a time. Tomorrow I’ll sit down on my lunch break and divide it all up into steps and deadlines and go from there.