So how does one deal with mistakes in something that was supposed to become a tradition? Should one simply repeat the mistake every single time and make that the tradition or should one fix it and live with there being one off?

My little girl started school this fall. I keep saying and writing the same cliché over and over again. Time is flying by at such record speed that I barely seem to be able to catch my breath, let alone write a blog post about it. She has already learned how to read and has started writing cute notes for us. She has celebrated 100 days at school and embarrassingly I struggled to get this posted before 6 months had gone by (and in the end I missed “my deadline” by three days). I miss blogging though so hopefully I will manage to post her Christmas dress before summer.

The day she started school was a bit stressful as always getting everyone dressed and ready in time. I had written a sign with 1. Grade (1 Klasse) on it and was ready to snap some photos of her holding it. Then the little miss exclaimed at the last moment that her class was 1B and not just 1 and forced me to write 1B. With little time on my hand I just wrote the B, while trying to keep an eye out for her little brother and didn’t realize until we started taking the photos that it wasn’t really grammatically correct.

I made her a new dress for the occasion. I used the The Felicity dress by Bella Sunshine Design. The fabric I used was Sunprint in Orchid by Katarina Roccella .

It was a good pattern. The only thing that puzzled me was that the ruffles were cut in four even pieces meaning I would have to have a seam at the front of the dress and that if I matched the side seams I would have less ruffles at the back. I agonized for few days over this fact but thankfully it worked out just fine and neither the seams nor the difference on the front and back are visible. Even if I had dropped all the time I spent pondering over the ruffles part it was a rather time consuming pattern but I love the final result.

It was a beautiful day when she started school and I long back to summer and summer dresses while looking at these photos. It has been a dark and gloomy winter here in Norway.

I still haven’t decided what to do about the mistake on the sign. If I should repeat it or not. I will probably keep agonizing about it until the day I need to take pictures of her starting second class. Knowing how time flies that is probably just right around the corner.