Officially Birthday-ed Out!

2 birthdays and 3 parties later! What a whirlwind of festivites, baking, wrapping, cooking, hiding gifts and phone calls! And it's not even Christmas yet!!! lol

Now my babies are 9 & 5.

Were does the time go?

Birthday Treats DONE!!!

OK -- please tell me how cute these are!!!!

They actually turned out as good in real life as they did in my head!!!

Facebook is SO cool!!!

I've re-connected with so many old friends. What a blast!

In between blogging and Facebooking we've been homeschooling......haha just kidding!
A is doing great with our learning time. We've been working on the first Thanksgiving and Native Americans.
We work on math everyday. Although I'm leaning toward backing off on the times tables. I don't think its sticking! Until I'm sure he has the basics of addition and subtraction, and all the concepts that involve that, I don't want to push him forward. Whats the point?
Rocks are a big thing right now. We lugged home BAGS of rocks from different parts of the country during our road trip. Since then he is still so fascinated with them. He displays them, he counts how many he has, he organizes then into different groups. So what better subject to incorporate into our curriculum than All Things Rocks!!
We're even having their (A & B) birthday party this Sunday at a gem mine/gold panning place!

Right now I have to start making rice crispie treats for B's class tomorrow. We're going to make fairy sceptors. Star rice crispies, on a stick with ribbons! Adorable. I'll post pics once they're finished.

Flylady

I consider myself to be fairly organized, my house is not in CHAOS, I'm pretty on-top of things. OK -- I'm completely OCD about a lot of stuff!!! haha
But thank GOD for this website!!!! I'm serious!!I recently found out about Flylady.com and what a gem I've found!
I signed up for the yahoo groups, I started a "control journal" (love that title by the way) and I've started what's called the "Baby Steps". Simple things like shining your sink. I kind of already did this, but not consistently. The idea is that it's so much nicer to wake up to a clean, shiny sink! I agree.
Today, I completed one of the tasks in this weeks "ZONE". The zone is the kitchen. Todays task, wipe down the cabinet doors. MAN, did they NEED it!!!
So, for being as "anal" as I am about many things, there is ALWAYS room for improvement.
Tomorrow, it's the fridge:)

Fantastic Home Learning Day!

We had such a great day today.

We accomplished our morning routine, A & B played really well together, they spent time with our awesome neighbor - sewing of all things!!!
While they were occupied over there, I was able to make phones calls and start laying out the plans for their birthday party.
When they came home, A helped me chop pears for our delicious Pear Cake. He loves using the chopper thingy we have - great invention by the way!!!
And all the while, B kept us entertained with dancing, singing and rhymes that she has learned at pre-school!
As I cleaned the kitchen A asked if he could rake up the leaves in the backyard so they could jump in them!!!!! They did this until it got dark and I called them in for dinner.

WOW, were did these kids come from? OK, just kidding, they're mine!
It's just that some days they absolutley amaze me!

OH HAPPY DAY!

I actually cried last night. Tears of joy. Tears of hope. Tears of pride.

On so many levels, this election means so much.
I feel that we as a nation, have crossed the threshold. Crossed over into a new era of peace, diplomacy, tolerance, understanding, and patriotism.

I'm proud of US.

Whatever will BE will BE

Tonight we shall see which path this country has chosen.

I'm hopeful.

Get Out and VOTE!!!

WOO HOO!!!!!

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!! Whoever it may be for - DO IT! - It's powerful!

Halloween Update

The evening of Trick-or-Treating went better than expected!!!

My concern came when A opted for a mask instead of just face make-up!!! POOR B is very visually sensitive to a lot of things. This amazing little person can go on rollercoasters without flinching, but can't stand the sight of a goblin mask! I do understand, I'm kind of the same way.

So anyway, A suggested that while trick-or-treating that him and his friend would walk in front of B and her friend, so she would only see the back of his head! Great suggestion!

It worked very well for the most part. Except the times that A would turn around after getting candy and look B straight in the face! She DIDN'T like that at all. So (eventually!) after A would get his candy he'd flip up his mask to show B that it was him!

We all had a really great time!