Miscellanious Nothings

I finally got around to finishing my last bit of kitten embroidery.  I can't really find any embroidery patterns that I like--it's really really hard!  All the patterns are for machine embroidery.  =(

It rained today =( so no rollerblading.  Just more of the treadmill.  Sigh.

I was thinking more about how difficult it is to find school clothes for Maia.  So many of the things out there look like miniature teenager clothes.  I don't want my daughter wearing short-short denim skirts or skin tight blouses and shirts.  I'm not saying I want her clothes to be billowing and ill-fitting either but surely there should be a happy medium out there?  I'm glad she doesn't like to wear pants because every pair out there is tight.  Why would anyone make tight (or snug) pants for a child.  Even considering that these pants are made of supposedly stretchy material it's still not easy for a child to move freely in them.  Maia will be having gym this year at school and will have to have at least a few pairs to wear on those days and I do not want to buy all these tight fitting pants.  It's times like these that I really wish I could sew clothing well.  And that using my old never-works-quite-right sewing machine wasn't an exercise in frustration! =(