Teachers and blankets

K has three teachers for third grade.  Her homeroom /reading teacher is having a baby and is due in a couple of weeks.  Her math teacher is also having a baby which is due in about another month!

I go to school every Tuesday and Wednesday morning to volunteer at school.  Mostly I help her homeroom teacher with her lower reading group.  I usually take a group of about five kids during "centers" and we work on their weekly story.  I also help K's Science/SS teacher and sometimes make copies and stuff.  I really enjoy volunteering at school.  I love working with the reading groups even though sometimes the kids drive me crazy (there are several with behavior issues :)).  Since the teacher is expecting her baby during or before spring break I am finished volunteering after next week.  I will miss it.  I won't miss rushing out of the house to be there around 8:20 because I am not a morning person but I will miss the kids-even the rotten ones!  I am so glad they have let me come in all year.  I really like all three teachers and so does K!

I decided to crochet a baby blanket for the teacher. I love to crochet but I am not great at it.  I like to do it mindlessly, without any counting or concentrating--that's why I'm not great at it!  Too lazy to do fancy stuff maybe.  I started the blanket several times and didn't like it and started over again.  I finally found a yarn I like and finished it up last weekend--just in time!

Not a great picture but...

I went very simple--single stitch.

The shell edging turned out a little ruffly so I was afraid that made it too girly for the boy baby but she said she didn't think so and if mom loves it that's all that matters!

I am at least halfway finished the blanket for the math teacher.  I don't help her so I don't know her as well but she is K's favorite and she refused to let me leave her out!  I will take pics of that one too.  I have to hurry because I heard her say today they may put her on bed rest soon!

Making pies and homemade bread make me feel like Betty Crocker or maybe Martha, but crochet (and sewing) make me feel like I am just too lazy and impatient.  I wish I could do it like my mom or my grandma who could crochet anything!  Maybe someday I'll get better....