Woohoo!!!! It started last night, but you can watch the episodes online at the link above. We LOVE this show and love how he isn't scared to research food, especially kids school lunches, and try to implement healthy change. My favorite quote from last night was, "You don't give kids flavored milk in the middle of an obesity crisis." SOOOO true!! (not that my kids even drink the stuff.)
Anyhoo.... after we watched that, Lee watched a PBS special on high school football players and their injuries. THEN we watched Waiting For Superman, a documentary about the public school system. A lot of tv last night. That's rare for us! But between those 3 shows- we went to bed really depressed. First, our kids are eating junk, then they are getting serious injuries (I didn't watch that one, but heard bits and pieces) and then we are failing to teach them. So sad!! I had to watch an episode of the Cosby show just to laugh again! haha.
But all of that inspired me to do my job and this morning we got to work. I worked on sight words with Amy (she's really good at memorizing.She already knows the first 9 weeks of words. ) And then after Savannah got here, we did a little seed planting. I soaked some wheat berries overnight so they could plant them today.
On Sunday, a lady at church gave me some American Girl craft books. (Which I thought was so sweet. She doesn't have much and said she saw them at a yard sale and had to get them for Amy.) Well, yesterday the girls came running to me, a certain page marked and said, "Can we make this???!!!??" When I said they could- they looked so surprised! haha.
We could only get part of it done yesterday before Savannah had to leave. So they finished them today. They are wands with stars on the end of them. I liked it because I used my Silhouette to cut the stars. So easy!! I didn't have any dowels for the rods, so I used popsicle sticks and taped them together. It worked!
Yesterday we got a nice surprise in the mail. Food Storage!! Mom sent us this wonderful bucket of 275 servings of various foods..... we also loved the box because, well, we need it! Two gifts in one- thanks Mom!
Other than that, the weather is beautiful. I'm headed to Zumba again tonight. Monday was a different teacher than Friday and WOW that girl worked you! I didn't know the dances either, so I was a the newbie in the back of the room. Oh well. But it's fun and I like that it makes me do a cardio workout for an hour. Lee's just working hard on his dissertation. It won't be much longer and I won't be able to say that anymore. Woohoo!! haha.
Looks like again you are keeping busy. I'm glad the girls like to keep busy with new brainy ideas. Always like to keep the imagination going. Have you finished the quilt yet? The quilt I once started took about 19 years to finish. Ugh!!! Quilts not my thing. Crazy the things I like to do take as much time, but not as much fun. At least for me. Keep busy. Maybe poke your siblings into doing a little blogging. Hint, hint. Love always.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the quilt when it's done. Looks like it's going to be really cute! I thought about making B one with some of her baby clothes one day. I'm cataloging all these nifty ideas of yours for Brecken when she's a little bigger...ha, ha!! ;o) Love them! That's awesome that Will is holding his own cup. Brecken will not hold her own yet even though she probably can...aah!
ReplyDeleteI wrote my little blurb and somehow made it dissapear. I'm so great with this computer--I am really good at lousing thing up. Ask Uncle Mike!! Neat things you have been doing with the kids and keep up the great work. Glad Will is so good holding his cup. Hope your seeds grow. Love to all, Gram.
ReplyDeleteI watched Jamie too and it was depressing, sure hope he can make a difference somewhere, stay tuned. Hope the girls didn't work any magic on you. And Will, well, better get him a two wheeler, he might be ready for anything.
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