30 Days Until Christmas!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Our Bake Sale Contribution
I'm pretty sure we're caught in a time warp over here. The days have been speeding by lately. It's the middle of November and this is only my 4th post! We have just been incredibly busy with, well, being a family of 4 with 2 grade schoolers. I am looking forward to Thanksgiving break at the end of next week! No work, no school, no doctor's or dentist's appointments, no practices of any sort for at least 3 days, 5 if you include the weekend. Sounds wonderful.
This Saturday Danielle's baton group held a bake sale to help raise money to purchase more lights for our community's Christmas tree. They performed at the tree lighting ceremony last year and will again this year, too. Danielle made turkey cupcakes. We boxed them up into little boxes and they looked so cute! They were a hit and all of them sold within the first hour. If we have time, I think we'll make some for our Thanksgiving feast, too.
We took a break from some of our home improvement projects this weekend to run to the hardware store and then out for dinner. The kids were hungry and that tends to make them cranky. They were just picking at each other. That night we had several conversations about treating each other the way you would want to be treated...not the way that person deserves to be treated. It really is a hard lesson. Danielle is much quicker to bestow grace than Tyler is. He's more of an eye for an eye type of guy. He's also a bit of a smart mouth. While we were in the check-out line at the store I saw him get up in Danielle's face and blow in her face. When I yelled at him about it, he quickly pointed out that Danielle had done it to him first. When I reminded him of our earlier conversations he replied, "I know, Mom. Since she treated me like that, I just figured she wanted me to do it back."
This Saturday Danielle's baton group held a bake sale to help raise money to purchase more lights for our community's Christmas tree. They performed at the tree lighting ceremony last year and will again this year, too. Danielle made turkey cupcakes. We boxed them up into little boxes and they looked so cute! They were a hit and all of them sold within the first hour. If we have time, I think we'll make some for our Thanksgiving feast, too.
We took a break from some of our home improvement projects this weekend to run to the hardware store and then out for dinner. The kids were hungry and that tends to make them cranky. They were just picking at each other. That night we had several conversations about treating each other the way you would want to be treated...not the way that person deserves to be treated. It really is a hard lesson. Danielle is much quicker to bestow grace than Tyler is. He's more of an eye for an eye type of guy. He's also a bit of a smart mouth. While we were in the check-out line at the store I saw him get up in Danielle's face and blow in her face. When I yelled at him about it, he quickly pointed out that Danielle had done it to him first. When I reminded him of our earlier conversations he replied, "I know, Mom. Since she treated me like that, I just figured she wanted me to do it back."
Thursday, November 10, 2011
For the Birds
This guy landed on my fence this morning. I had just refilled my bird feeders a little earlier and had lots of birdy activity in my yard. I'm pretty sure he was looking for breakfast, but he flew away empty handed (taloned).
I took these through the window, so please excuse the fuzziness. That last picture was just a split second away from being an amazing picture. Oh well. I posted it because you can really see how big his talons are, though. Scary!
I stole a couple hours for myself on Saturday and went to the park. There weren't any birds (other than a couple robins) and the only wildlife I found were squirrels. I don't know where everything was hiding, but it was rather disappointing as far as picture taking goes. It was nice to enjoy the beautiful day outside by myself for a few minutes, though.
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Irony
The instructor for the Lego Club at school finally installed a piece of software that Tyler recommended last year. Yesterday she called Tyler out of class and had him teach her how to use it. She was so impressed with his knowledge that she asked him to come to Lego Club today to teach some of the other students. (Tyler decided not to join Lego Club this fall because he felt there were too many kids for the amount of Legos they have.)
When I went to pick him up this afternoon, the instructor stopped me and told me what an amazing job he did. She said he stood in front of approximately 40 of his peers and delivered an excellent presentation and demonstration of the software. She was really impressed and said she'd like him to return the next few weeks to help out. On my way to find him (he was still on the computer), two other adults stopped me to praise Tyler. I was really proud of him.
On the way home he told me all about it. As he was winding down he said, "You wouldn't believe how hard it is to teach a bunch of kids who are talking, crinkling their mini-oreo wrappers, and chewing with their mouth open. Then they all seemed to decide they needed to get up and throw their trash away at the same time." At this point we were getting out of the van. I caught his eye, we looked at each other for a moment, and then we both started laughing. One of the most common complaints about Tyler's behavior at school is that he won't stop talking or making noises.
The irony was not lost on him.
When I went to pick him up this afternoon, the instructor stopped me and told me what an amazing job he did. She said he stood in front of approximately 40 of his peers and delivered an excellent presentation and demonstration of the software. She was really impressed and said she'd like him to return the next few weeks to help out. On my way to find him (he was still on the computer), two other adults stopped me to praise Tyler. I was really proud of him.
On the way home he told me all about it. As he was winding down he said, "You wouldn't believe how hard it is to teach a bunch of kids who are talking, crinkling their mini-oreo wrappers, and chewing with their mouth open. Then they all seemed to decide they needed to get up and throw their trash away at the same time." At this point we were getting out of the van. I caught his eye, we looked at each other for a moment, and then we both started laughing. One of the most common complaints about Tyler's behavior at school is that he won't stop talking or making noises.
The irony was not lost on him.
All About Me
Danielle was the All About Me student last week. She had to complete a couple papers telling about herself, her family, her pets, her likes, dislikes, etc. She also completed a couple papers telling about her favorite memory (Washington DC), her dream vacation (Australia or Africa), etc. She displayed one of her baton trophies and the photo albums from a couple of our vacations. At the end of the week she brought in a special snack. She picked sugar wafers (probably because I never buy them). She has been waiting for her All About Me week since the first day of school!
On Friday I was helping at the school and walked into her classroom while she was presenting everything to the class. (She was using a little pointer and looked so cute.) After Danielle's presentation, the other kids in the class wrote letters to her. The teacher laminated everything, put it all in a book, and sent it home today. Some of the letters really made me laugh. I thought I'd share a few. (Click on the pic to see it larger.)
On Friday I was helping at the school and walked into her classroom while she was presenting everything to the class. (She was using a little pointer and looked so cute.) After Danielle's presentation, the other kids in the class wrote letters to her. The teacher laminated everything, put it all in a book, and sent it home today. Some of the letters really made me laugh. I thought I'd share a few. (Click on the pic to see it larger.)
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