I'm dyein' here!!

I have more dye on my hands this evening after making a conscious decision to try to keep my gloves on. I guess I didn't manage. :)

I bring shirts in for the kids to look a when we're getting ready to dye.
Chevron design, hearts, turtles, spirals, random circles, bars/stripes.

Yesterday I got them all out and showed them to Jason*. He's a sweet and solemn little first grade guy, very interested in the world. He asks a lot of questions and observes everything around him carefully.

I displayed the shirts, explained a little about how they'd look with our color scheme this year, and asked him which one he wanted to make.

He looked at the shirts I had out, considered carefully and said, "I think I'd like to make Thor's hammer."

"Dude. Sorry. That's not one of the options."

He looked surprised. "But that's what I'd really like to make. Can I just try it?"

I said he could, "Here are the rubber bands."

"Why do I need rubber bands?"

So I explained tie dyeing to him again. I don't know if he understood or not. He ended up making a spiral if I am remembering correctly. We're up to 29 shirts now, so I'm not really sure who's doing what.

This morning, I mistakenly gave a dyed shirt to the wrong kid. He went home with a girl's shirt inside double ziplock bags in his backpack. I called and left a message for his mom explaining the mixup. I told her that I would wash his shirt here at home and bring it tomorrow and she could do the little girl's shirt and do the same and we'd give them to the rightful owners tomorrow.

I rinsed out and washed the shirt this evening. It's eyepoppingly bright.
He made the ever-popular turtle on the front and random circles on the back.
It's in the dryer now.

Speaking of dry. I sort of forgot to drink enough today and now I have a headache. By the time I figure out that I'm thirsty, it's generally too late and the migraine has already hit me. This evening is no exception. So I'm outside half a dose of migraine medication and about 20 minutes away from going to bed.

Where I fervently hope that I manage to sleep tonight.
Last night I did not do very well in the sleep department, unfortunately.

But tomorrow is the last day of the school week. We have summer training on Friday and Monday off, so that means four days in a row that I'm not going to be up at 5. A bonus.

And four days ought to be about the right amount of time for me to lose the dye on my hands. Just in time to do a few more shirts next week, because there were some kids whose mom brought me shirts for them. They were not scheduled this week, though. So even though I'd like to be done after only a few days, they'll be doing their shirts next week.

Then I'll be done. Just in time to do them during the first week or two of summer.

:)