incremental progress

Nagging

I have agreed to make the skirt of the ball dress for the daughter person. Foolish me. But I did have the good sense to say no to making the corset. Giffy will be so disappointed in me, but I thought that A) I didn't have time to make up all those little pieces into a garment and B) I have never made one before and this was not the right corset to learn on. So half the outfit is going off to a dress makers. Phew.

But I am getting SO nagged about the whole thing. "When are we getting material?" "When are we going to see the woman who makes the corset?" "When are you going to start working on the skirt?"

My technique to deal with this has developed immediately, without thought and without planning. My technique is to palm as much of the work as possible back onto her. She can cut out the pattern. She can iron the pattern. She can pin the pattern. She can cut the material. I can show her what to do, and she can do it. It will be a fantastic learning experience for her.

And it puts most of the onus back on her, and right off me.

Its really hard having someone come into the house like this. When we are well rested and have low stress/pressure it is fun and no problem. But when things are a bit more strained, ie normal every day life, I can get very sick of having to turn the bathroom fan on because she forgets, and replace the toilet roll because she forgets, and tell her when to get up and when to go to bed, because otherwise she would forget. Its another baby!

Had a lovely time with the fourth form today doing periodic table stuff. They worked hard, and packed up about five minutes before the bell as they had worked hard and had enough, and I thought they were right. Good music in the classroom made it a fun day...

Posted by Toni at May 17, 2006 08:24 PM