Extra Time

I'm going to add my name to the list of people who hate daylight savings time. I mean come on-its 6:30 and its pitch black out-it really makes for a long evening! On the other hand I have been going to bed at 10 and getting up hours earlier than I used to so maybe it's not all bad.
This morning I was up by 8:51, yes I always remember exact times, not early by early bird standards but very early by mine. Since I felt rested I decided to venture out of the bedroom and see what the day looked like. Again, its amazing how long a day can seem with just two extra hours or so.
To fill some of the time I decided to first, check the U.S. election results (I'm much relieved to see that Obama was re-elected because frankly, Mitt Romney scares the heck out of me.), and second, take Savanna to story time to kill some of that extra time.
I'm still not very good with story time, my husbands aunt is a great story teller but the other kids drive me nuts!
To drown out some of the commotion I concentrated on starting my crochet chain, sadly, the only stitch I know-I really need to figure out how to get the second row started. I guess worse comes to worse I will have a collection of lovely bookmarks.
After returning home lunch was served (leftover egg salad sandwich, surprisingly not soggy, and leftover salad) after which we got busy working on the alphabet. I notice that for some reason Savanna tends to make some letters upside down or backwards but I'm really not worried about it at this point. I didn't push her too hard, just wrote it out and let her try to copy. She seemed to get stuck on K, N and V so we took a little time to try and work it out and moved on when she got frustrated. After all, I want her to want to do it. She then drew a very nice mouse family and I know I'm biased but I think she does quite well.
As our "science project" we planted a paper star that has flower seeds in it. We put it in a nice sunny location and hopefully it will grow into flowers. (It is a little old but I thought it was worth a try.)
Being as we only have a compact wash machine (no room for a dryer here so we hang them out) and it was a sunny day I thought I should throw in a load of laundry. I was happy to see that there wasn't as many dirty clothes as I thought. I have to say that for me there is something therapeutic about having a few minutes of peace and quiet while hanging up the laundry.
While I was there I noticed how nice the white branches of the birch trees looked against the clear blue sky and couldn't resist taking some pictures.