119. A really, really cool family. They email lots of people from long ago. Those people email me with happy wishes! So there are also some really, really cool friends. You are all way too awesome for words. Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
117. A new stove. Here she is! Bright and shiny! Who knew there were so many shades of white! (I think you notice it more in the picture.) Explained the new stove do's and don't's as part of FHE. ie. - Watch the lights to see if it's hot. Be careful getting things out of the microwave. And never, ever climb on it. :-) Not that they would, of course.
118. 4,500 Words today. Whew. I'm tired. And while I was doing that, the power company trimmed the tree so we'll still have power if there's ice. And we finished arrangements for the windows to get done. Most of the fall decorations got put up. And I got new planner pages and did a little Christmas shopping. Tomorrow I'm picking the kids up early for the Wyeth exhibit. It closes right after Thanksgiving, and with all the festivities, tomorrow is it! But I forgot to get the chat n chew flier out. Snap! I'll finish it up in the morning while I watch Nie on the Today show.
118. 4,500 Words today. Whew. I'm tired. And while I was doing that, the power company trimmed the tree so we'll still have power if there's ice. And we finished arrangements for the windows to get done. Most of the fall decorations got put up. And I got new planner pages and did a little Christmas shopping. Tomorrow I'm picking the kids up early for the Wyeth exhibit. It closes right after Thanksgiving, and with all the festivities, tomorrow is it! But I forgot to get the chat n chew flier out. Snap! I'll finish it up in the morning while I watch Nie on the Today show.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
A Quick Movie Review
116. The Blind Side. The new Sandra Bullock movie. I went to see it last night. Very good movie. I highly recommend it. I even want to see it again.
Friday, November 20, 2009
A Handful of Fun Stuff
111. 3,000 Words yesterday! I'm catching up!
112. Introducing people to Write or Die! It works!
113. Random Dinner. Took all the kids' free coupons for prizes and got dinner!
114. The Primary Program last week. The kids did a great job!
115. Quotes. The unnamed oldest is trying to keep track of where all our quotes come from. Mostly Pixar and PBS kids, apparently. Although the latest stumper was, "And we're walking, we're walking." Can you name where that quote is from?
112. Introducing people to Write or Die! It works!
113. Random Dinner. Took all the kids' free coupons for prizes and got dinner!
114. The Primary Program last week. The kids did a great job!
115. Quotes. The unnamed oldest is trying to keep track of where all our quotes come from. Mostly Pixar and PBS kids, apparently. Although the latest stumper was, "And we're walking, we're walking." Can you name where that quote is from?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
We're Ba-ack
All right. For all you interested. Here I am. Back Again. It has been an interesting week. Here we are. Still with no stove. Bookfair, Hallelujah, is over. We have a new tree house and windows for the downstairs on order. And it has rained for the past week. With all that, oh yeah, I haven't posted. But something made me laugh out loud this afternoon, so here it is.
106. We got rhythm. Sue was swinging her arms in great big arm circles why we talked. When I started to talk I started to speak. in the. rhythm. of her. arm. circles. And, apparently, bob my head in time to the beat. She started to giggle. Then the girls said, "What does she do when we do - this?" They lined up and started making various motions. Pushing their arms up and down or out and in or swinging them. Then they tried to get out of rhythm so that I would have a hard time talking in rhythm. I just started laughing. They said, "That's what she does. She laughs!" Then Mr. C. got in on the act and tried to get out of rhythm. The funny part of that is - he just came in on the half beat. Great syncopation, but apparently we all have too much rhythm and naturally get into sync, even when we're trying not to!
107. Critique group last night. OK. Not as good as last time. But - I had something! And sweet, kind H had gotten S and I light up sparkling tiara's and giant paper clips for our birthdays. And brought carrot cake. We wore the tiara's while we ate our treats and talked. :) Very happy.
108. Lou had a recorder concert and did a great job!
109. I'm over the 20,000 mark for nanowrimo. Over 1600 words today. This means I'm still behind, but not getting more behind. It keeps me even, and maybe I can get more in tonight. I must say that these are not high quality scenes I am writing. But later I'll edit them up into diamonds.
and oh, yeah 110. Clean laundry. Bookfair is over and we have some!
106. We got rhythm. Sue was swinging her arms in great big arm circles why we talked. When I started to talk I started to speak. in the. rhythm. of her. arm. circles. And, apparently, bob my head in time to the beat. She started to giggle. Then the girls said, "What does she do when we do - this?" They lined up and started making various motions. Pushing their arms up and down or out and in or swinging them. Then they tried to get out of rhythm so that I would have a hard time talking in rhythm. I just started laughing. They said, "That's what she does. She laughs!" Then Mr. C. got in on the act and tried to get out of rhythm. The funny part of that is - he just came in on the half beat. Great syncopation, but apparently we all have too much rhythm and naturally get into sync, even when we're trying not to!
107. Critique group last night. OK. Not as good as last time. But - I had something! And sweet, kind H had gotten S and I light up sparkling tiara's and giant paper clips for our birthdays. And brought carrot cake. We wore the tiara's while we ate our treats and talked. :) Very happy.
108. Lou had a recorder concert and did a great job!
109. I'm over the 20,000 mark for nanowrimo. Over 1600 words today. This means I'm still behind, but not getting more behind. It keeps me even, and maybe I can get more in tonight. I must say that these are not high quality scenes I am writing. But later I'll edit them up into diamonds.
and oh, yeah 110. Clean laundry. Bookfair is over and we have some!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
100. Getting to post 100! Still posting!
101. Lou was one of only two girls in her grade to reach the presidential level for physical fitness in the mile! She has a goal.
102. Sue has become very responsible at getting herself up and ready on time. This is trickier that it sounds, because she has three different start times, depending on which group is meeting early that day.
103. Bookfair has started. We haven't messed it up and are apparently making money!
104. Found this on a blog. It cracked me up.
101. Lou was one of only two girls in her grade to reach the presidential level for physical fitness in the mile! She has a goal.
102. Sue has become very responsible at getting herself up and ready on time. This is trickier that it sounds, because she has three different start times, depending on which group is meeting early that day.
103. Bookfair has started. We haven't messed it up and are apparently making money!
104. Found this on a blog. It cracked me up.
Friday, November 6, 2009
99. Impromptu sleepovers. Just because. Because nature abhors a vacumn, and young girls apparently do too sometimes, if it involves an empty night. Sue had three friends over. One brought her VCR and popcorn, another brought the pop, and we supplied pizza, Swiss Family Robinson, and the floor space. I'm trying not to fall asleep before they do by adding a blog entry! We can sleep in a bit tomorrow though, that will be nice.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
94. Fall. Again. I think it's official. I have a serious Fall obsession. I've easily taken 200 or more photos. Lots of them junk. I'm still figuring out the focus and metering with this camera. It tends to focus where it wants to and I'm trying to be sure it's where I want it to. I'm carrying around my camera perpetually, and stopping for random pictures. I have no idea what I'm going to do with any of them. But it sure is fun.
I love the tree with all the rainbow colors. Later the outside ones will actually turn purple. Also, in the leafless tree you can just see a bird's nest. That's my favorite part.
95. Sue's Concerts. She had a fun Halloween concert with the strings. She is in an extra strings group so she got to play in a concert with the High School kids. Our favorite part was the glow sticks on the strings. I don't think any of my pictures for that turned out great. A flash doesn't work to show glow sticks, and I didn't have a tripod. She has another concert tonight - choir. I'll add a picture once I take one.
The high school kids stood in the aisles and played with Sue's group using their memory and glow sticks to play with. It was a cute idea and lots of fun. If you look very closely you can catch a glimpse of Sue's blue sailor pants and white sailor hat behind the conductor. I took more pictures. They turned out equally as well.
96. Young Women's in Excellence was last night. The girls did banners of personal belief. I believe.... They were all beautiful and all so different. It was very sweet.
97. And then, of course, there is Teenage Problem solving. When some helium balloons floated up to the ceiling, we needed to get them down to give them to the activity day girls who were there. The young men were finished with their activity and decided to help. They first tried throwing each other up in the air and reaching for strings. Then, they tried this...
Because, really, how else would you do this?
Eventually the ladder came out, but hey, where was the fun in that?
98. And last, and, who knows, maybe least, Nanowrimo. I have a couple of writing buddies keeping me on track! I'm up to almost 8,000 words. The goal is 50,000 for the month. I'm not sure how many of those will be worth keeping, but at least I'm making progress. You can't edit a blank page. And my new favorite writing tool is Write or Die. You can check it out here http://writeordie.drwicked.com/ Set the timer. If you stop typing, the screen starts to flash. Eventually alarms go off. If you go Kamakaze - stopping too long will cause it to start unwriting what you have written! Great fun.
I love the tree with all the rainbow colors. Later the outside ones will actually turn purple. Also, in the leafless tree you can just see a bird's nest. That's my favorite part.
95. Sue's Concerts. She had a fun Halloween concert with the strings. She is in an extra strings group so she got to play in a concert with the High School kids. Our favorite part was the glow sticks on the strings. I don't think any of my pictures for that turned out great. A flash doesn't work to show glow sticks, and I didn't have a tripod. She has another concert tonight - choir. I'll add a picture once I take one.
The high school kids stood in the aisles and played with Sue's group using their memory and glow sticks to play with. It was a cute idea and lots of fun. If you look very closely you can catch a glimpse of Sue's blue sailor pants and white sailor hat behind the conductor. I took more pictures. They turned out equally as well.96. Young Women's in Excellence was last night. The girls did banners of personal belief. I believe.... They were all beautiful and all so different. It was very sweet.
97. And then, of course, there is Teenage Problem solving. When some helium balloons floated up to the ceiling, we needed to get them down to give them to the activity day girls who were there. The young men were finished with their activity and decided to help. They first tried throwing each other up in the air and reaching for strings. Then, they tried this...
Because, really, how else would you do this?
Eventually the ladder came out, but hey, where was the fun in that?
98. And last, and, who knows, maybe least, Nanowrimo. I have a couple of writing buddies keeping me on track! I'm up to almost 8,000 words. The goal is 50,000 for the month. I'm not sure how many of those will be worth keeping, but at least I'm making progress. You can't edit a blank page. And my new favorite writing tool is Write or Die. You can check it out here http://writeordie.drwicked.com/ Set the timer. If you stop typing, the screen starts to flash. Eventually alarms go off. If you go Kamakaze - stopping too long will cause it to start unwriting what you have written! Great fun.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
92. Kid Logic. On the way to school there was an older boy walking with us. We also had a neighbor walking with us. The S-train said to the older boy - "I'm 5 and he's 6!" the other boy said, "Well I'm 10!." Without skipping a beat the S-Train said, "But together, we're 11!"
So - I guess that wins! (Only from there it went into dog years.... and then it was too complicated to hold anyone's interest.)
So - I guess that wins! (Only from there it went into dog years.... and then it was too complicated to hold anyone's interest.)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
91. Officially Halloween! A fun day of carving pumpkins, rolling down hills, trunk or treating, shopping for stoves, more pumpkin carving, seeing neighborhood friends and trick or treating. Then the kids (Lou) were bored.??!? I think everyone was on such a sugar high that coming home was a shock to the system! While trick or treating our usual outdoor voices were even more outdoor than usual. We certainly weren't going to lose the S-Train!
Our nautical Theme. The S-Train switched to being a pirate so he could go along with the theme. We nixed the true pirate bare feet, though. And it's kind of hard to tell, but the unnamed oldest has eyes on the side of that sweatshirt. She's an octopus.
Our nautical Theme. The S-Train switched to being a pirate so he could go along with the theme. We nixed the true pirate bare feet, though. And it's kind of hard to tell, but the unnamed oldest has eyes on the side of that sweatshirt. She's an octopus.
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