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Monday, May 28, 2012

Cold Hands Farm!

Hi everyone!  I just wanted to let you know that I have started a new blog dedicated to my new enterprise - Cold Hands Farm rabbitry!  The girls and I have decided to delve into the world of rabbits, namely French Angora rabbits.  I am buying a breeding pair, so that in the future we can breed them and sell their litters.  For now I will just be harvesting their wool to use and sell.  So exciting!  So come on over and read all about it at www.coldhandsfarm.blogspot.com!

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Happy Memorial Day

Photo taken at a Colonial Days Festival, Spring 2011

We were a military family for a while and know how hard that life is.  We also appreciate those who gave their lives for this country and respect the sacrifices their families have made.  Happy Memorial Day, may we remember the fallen and honor the serving.

Childlike wonder

This is a photo I took just a few weeks ago of the girls staring at a big grasshopper stationed on the screen right at Toots level.  She's the one who spotted it, actually and said "Mommy, what's dis?"  Moo raced over, knelt down next to her and they just stared.  For about 10 minutes they were glued to the "screen".  I told them it was a grasshopper and that we don't like grasshoppers because they eat our plants, especially the my pretty Hydrangea which this guy is right next to.  I would have gone out there and tried to smash it, but I just couldn't get over how amazed the girls were at that bug.  Once it started moving they were even more interested.  Toots kept her grip on Moo the whole time. 

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Summer Fun List 2012

Well, last year we jumped on the Summer Fun List band wagon and I really liked it. It served it's purpose as a huge inspiration for those summer days when you have NO idea what to do with the kids, they are whiney and don't know what they want to do either. All you have to do is look to the list! The list that you made when you HAD those ideas, but didn't need them and when there wasn't so much pressure to have awesome days planned out before breakfast is even over. So if you have kids, I would totally recommend making a summer list! We used a large piece of paper from one of the rolls of paper used on Moos art easel. Then, because my kids are young and love bright colors, I wrote "Summer Fun List 2012" in a rainbow of colors. Below that I draw an empty box followed by the fun idea so that we can check off the boxes as we do the things listed. I used a different color for each idea to give the list an overall rainbow effect. I would post a picture, but I'm still waiting for magic computer elves to come clean up my hard drive while I'm asleep. So to get you started on your own list, I'll share a few of the gems from my list. Toots is still too little to contribute, although we do take her into account and try to think of things she would enjoy. Mainly the list is a project Moo and I do together. So here we go! 1. Moo & Mommy date - Brave in the theater 2. Park hop day (spend the day going from playground to playground in our city) 3. Get ice cream at an ice cream shop 4. Make s'mores around a real campfire 5. See a fireworks show 6. Camping in the familyroom, tent and all 7. Enter something into the fair 8. Moo makes dinner 9. Try a new restaurant 10. See the Fresh Beat Band in concert That last one is a surprise for the girls. Moo likes them, but Toots LOVES them! We think they will be really surprised when we walk into the arena and the Band walks out on stage! I think I'm more excited about the surprise than I've been about anything in a long time. So fun! So you get the idea. I also have a whole bunch of stuff on there that is "educational" like writing a letter to a favorite cousin once a week (to practice our writing) and reading 50 1st reader books all by herself (can you believe they expect you to read by the time you leave Kindergarten now? Wasn't that a first grade thing when I was in school?). I also have a TON of ideas from Pinterest for crafts and projects and just general fun things to do...can you say DIY sprinklers or oobleck? Yeah, I'm not sure I'm saying that second one right either, just forget it. Anyway, have fun and make a list! Even a little one will help you out on those days when everyone says "I'm bored!" and you can just keep adding to it as you think of things! Our list last year had so much on it, we didn't get half of it done. Our list is pretty full this year too, but I'm going to try to do something on it at least every other day to keep the summer fun! Our summer is exactly two months long so I don't know if we'll get it all done, but the point is to have ideas there when you need them - not to force yourself into a crazy busy vacation! We are almost there, only a few days left for Moo and then it's fun in the sun for this family! I can't wait!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

What is up with my computer?!?!

So I feel like it's been forever since I was able to post anything on here! I am having a serious problem with my computer and am having trouble fixing it. It seems as though I take a greater than normal number of pictures of my kids, which has filled up the memory on the hard drive. I have only had this computer for about 3 years and have NEVER had this problem before with any other computer I've ever had. Since the hard drive is full, I can do nothing - not even update my Firefox or create any new Word documents! Moo is about to graduate Kinder and I couldn't even contribute any photos to the collage the parent group is making because my drive is so full it can't even burn a disc! So I am typing this from my iPad, which is an odd experience since I don't think Blogspot was designed with mobile devices in mind. I have purchased an external hard drive, but now I have to figure out how to get everything off my hard drive and onto the external drive. And since the Hubbs is either at work,overtime or the gym about 95% of the time, it is hard to find the time to be in the study. My main problem with that is that the study is not Toots friendly. It is organized and clean, but I cannot be sure that she couldn't get her hands on a pin or scissors or Sharpies. So I try to keep her out of there and since it is on the other side of the house, I can't just head in there and leave her in the family room alone...blah. Someday I'll have a laptop and this will be lots easier. But now that I can manage just written posts on the iPad, I'll try to get on here more often to at least get some written posts up. Like I mentioned, Moo is almost done with Kinder! Then I will have a first grader on my hands, what?!?! I just can't seem to wrap my head around that. As soon as Moo gets out of school, we will be moving Toots into her room. The big girls will use the summer to get used to the whole room sharing thing and hopefully have it down by the time school starts again in the fall. We are also trying to wean Toots off the bottle and onto some big girl sippy cups. She has been resisting like crazy and won't even try to use a big girl cup. So that one might take a while. But it must be done! Hopefully I'll be able to update a little more if this iPad thing cooperates, so summer may be well documented this year! Yipee!