It's funny the things you learn as a parent.  Like which are the best sports to take your kids to.  I don't mean which ones are best for the kids, I mean which ones are best for the parents.  I always enjoy taking the kids to swimming, because after the mad rush of getting them to the pool, I get to sit for 30 minutes drinking good quality coffee and watching them swim (I used to teach swimming many years ago so I enjoy watching the kids swim).  It's hot and noisy by the pool, but I love that little fragment of peacefulness in an ever busy schedule.  

That's nothing compared to this though:

That's me chilling out on the picnic rug at Little Athletics this morning, drinking my coffee and waiting for the sausages to cook.  My hubby and I hung out together all morning, soaking up the warmth and catching up on the week's events.  Oh yeah, it so happens that every second week you need to stand out there picking up disks from the running track, or measuring the kids' shotput throws.  But since I do the swimming and the ballet runs, I let my hubby do the Little Aths volunteering, and I just turn up every few weeks when the sun is shining.  Love it!

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Here I am in the shirt I made last weekend. I literally unpicked a favourite Esprit shirt that was a good ten years old and used it to make a pattern.  As much as I loved the shirt it never fitted me particularly well, so I made a few adjustments and did the right thing and made both a practice shirt and a paper pattern before I made this one.  I'm really pleased with how it's turned out so will keep an eye out for some nice fabric to make another one (this fabric came from Spotlight and matches my Ojay skirt well, but wasn't exactly what I had in mind for the shirt).  I felt a bit overdressed for Little Aths but was so excited to finally have warm weather I wanted to wear my new skirt and shirt before it disappeared (which it no doubt will!).