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| Angel-hair pasta is fun.... |
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| ....to eat..... |
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| ...when you are... |
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| ....a toddler. |
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| But even more fun... |
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| ....is knowing big brother made an angel food cake... |
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| ....for dessert, to celebrate... |
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| ...the special Feast Day of the Archangels!! May the angels go with you today and always!! Sara |
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| ....brought us outside for a few minutes to catch a breath of fresh air.... |
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| ....and to draw on the big, black, shiny chalkboard. Instead of "Harold and the Purple Crayon," I had "Nacho and the Blue Crayon!" |
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| The rain had been coming down pretty steadily most of the morning and gray was definitely Mother's Nature's favorite color for the day......but, the minute.... |
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| ...Buttercup started drawing this wonderful rainbow.... |
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| ....the sun.... |
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| ...ever so slowly, but surely.... ....used that exact moment to peek through the clouds and make it's brilliant appearance!! |
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| The timing was perfect....but then again, Buttercup has always had a knack for spreading sunshine! |
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| Nacho made a flat version of himself last week and sent him off in the mail to........ |
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| ....his very favorite friend. His flat-self arrived safely and he was able to play and have fun on his old block.....something he wishes he could to as his real-self!! Have a great Monday! Sara |
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| Today starts our Alphabet study with the pre-schooler. We begin with "A" week. We did some activities this morning that helped him write the letter A. Nacho especially liked rolling out the letter using play-dough. |
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| Lil Sis should learn a little by osmosis.,....she wanted to get in on all the action, too. Have An Absolute Awesome And Above Average Afternoon! As Always, Sara |
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| The man who has no imagination has no wings. ~Muhammad Ali |
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| I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.~Pablo Picasso |
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| I believe in imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~ Duane Michels |
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| I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo |
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| Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ~ Orison Swett Marden |
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| A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~ Stephen Leacock |
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| Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan |
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| Isn't he a beaut?......hand prints and all? |
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| After over a month without a dishwasher (an electronic machine that is.....we have plenty of 'dishwashers' around here).....We brought this jim-dandy, stainless steel, Kenmore Elite, extra quiet high powered scrubbing piece of hardware home....and he fit perfectly in the little space we had prepared for him. He really is VERY, VERY QUIET......so quiet, in fact, it is hard to tell if he is really working or not. Our dishes have come out sparkling clean so I think he is earning his keep. It's official then. He is a permanent part of this family. It's a match made in heaven! |
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| ....to see which team could find the most worms in the fastest time. Moe gave himself a handi-cap....he had to find 10 worms before Nacho and Buttercup could find 3 worms. |
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| I guess I never found out who the winner was..... ....but the fact that team Nacho/Buttercup never got dirty and Team Moe was self-cleaning.... I suppose I somehow won in the end! Have a "worm-diful" week-end! Sara |
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| From left to right... Toddler, 2nd grader, Pre-schooler, 4th grader and 7th grader. Not Pictured~9th Grader....already sitting in 2nd period Theology! |
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| The sidewalk was the chalkboard today...... |
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| as the cooler summer day brought us out into the sun. |
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| Moe set up camp. We brought the desk back upstairs from the basement and he picked his seat and desk position. |
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| Special cookies for dessert.....the 1st Day of School is ALWAYS a celebration! |
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| Mark and I have been wrestling with a decision all year. Should we replace the white carpet in our house that is not so white anymore? Or do we wait a year or two...clean it every few months and get a little more "wear and tear" out of it? Do we live with what we have? Or change it up to a more "family friendly" color. (DARKER!) Well, today we made up our minds. It all started when.... .....we hired painters to reach the high up areas in our house...mainly the vaulted ceilings in the entry way. The painters gave us such a great price, we decided to have them do the bonus room bedroom and all of the exterior. I really wanted to do an accent color on one of the walls, so I brought home 3 different samples of blue and tried them all. Didn't choose any of them and the whole room is now Woodstock Tan. Today, as we were cleaning the freshly painted room......I tried to give all three of the sample paint containers over to Rocky so he could take them down the basement.....and one started to slip from my hands...... |
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| Not only did it slip.....but the lid was not twisted tightly on top. The question that has plagued us for over a year..."Do we replace the carpet sooner or later?" Decision has been made......and very easily I might add. It will be replaced sooner. |
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| He's been a Freshman for a whole week now....and the transition has gone well!! The rest of us will begin next Tuesday!! Our job this week-end will be to soak up what is left of summer! |
