Gratitude Week 3

This week I am thankful for:


#21 - a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family


#22 - Fun Black Friday Christmas shopping with my cousin


#23 - Finding the Nook App on my new phone


#24 - spending time with my son painting a nutcracker


#25 - finding a great broccoli cheese soup recipe


#26 - hearing the kids in Children's church sing praises to our Lord


#27 - My Dr., who is not just my doctor, but also my friend


#28 - Christmas lights


#29 - hot coffee on cold mornings


#30 - Electricity

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Gratitude Week 2

It's Monday again, and here's what I am thankful for:

#11 - my church family

#12 - my home

#13 - my dad

#14 - healthy children

#15 - God's mercy

#16 - lunch with good friends today

#17 - teaching Children's church

#18 - Emma's American Heritage Girl's troop

#19 - our vehicles

#20 - Ms. Sharon

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Gratitude

I am joining Ann Voskamp in her Gratitude Community and going to spend Mondays here on the blog focusing on the things I am thankful for.

#1 - my children's laughter

#2 - a loving husband

#3 - clean running water

#4 - My Savior's unending grace

#5 - floors that have to be swept daily

#6 - our Pastor, who is not afraid to preach God's word boldy

#7 - my mom

#8 -  a warm comfy bed to climb into on these chilly nights

#9 - the ability to homeschool my children

#10 - good friends

Partying Blood

I had to go in for some blood work the other day. So the kids and I go to the doctor's office and I get my blood work done. We then leave and head out to get some lunch. We park and are about to get out of the truck. My arm was wrapped in the bright blue tape. Not wanting to go in to eat with the bright blue tape on my arm; I check my arm to see if it is still bleeding. Ethan is right there with me checking everything out. It is done bleeding and so I remove the tape. Then Ethan says to me "Mom why do they take your blood from right there in the bend of your arm?" I said, "Well that's just the best place to draw blood from on most people honey." He then says, "Oh is that where your blood parties?"

All I could do was laugh! I love this kid. He always comes up with the funniest things.

WFMW - Flip Top Crayola Markers

The kiddos and I were in Target a couple of weeks ago.

I don't know about ya'll but our first stop is ALWAYS the Dollar bins in Target!

We just happened upon these great markers by Crayola. They are called Flip Top Markers.

I don't know how these sweet little things made it in the dollar bins, because I know I would have paid a lot more for them had I known about them previously.


Since, they were only a dollar, I did what any smart homeschooling momma would do, I bought 4 packs of them! Yes I did!

Now, one pack I did send to my sister in law for my 3 year old nephew. Because this kind of stuff should be shared ya'll! Which is the reason I am telling you about it today!

The cap is attached so you never lose it and have a dried out marker.

It doesn't just flip open to the side and possibly get in your way while coloring (tragedy!)

Oh no, it slides all the way down the marker and allows you to place it on the other end of the marker. Like so:

My daughter who loves to do all things artsy; but who would never color with markers because she said she "hates the way they sound" has colored with nothing but these since we bought them.

My son LOVES them too. As a matter of fact he just made me this great picture of Elvis yesterday! Not bad for a 5 year old. We love Elvis around here...what can I say!

And, I love them because I don't have to turn the house upside down anymore looking for marker lids.  I love anything, that saves me time and only cost me a DOLLAR!!!

Now, go join Kristen at We are THAT family and tell us what works for you!

I have been in no way compensated for this. Just found a great thing and wanted to share it.

Powdered Wig

I went looking for a fun craft to go along with our social study lesson on government leaders. It happen to fall right here around President's Day. So I thought we would talk about President's Day and why we celebrate it as well.

I happened across this website http://www.freekidcrafts.com/presidential-powdered-wig.html where we found the directions on how to make a powdered wig.

So, today in honor of President's Day we made a powdered wig. Here is Emma modeling the wig:

 

  

  

It was really easy to do. You can find the instructions by clicking on the link above.

We learned several things today about George Washington. He didn't actually wear a powdered wig. His hair was red and he powdered it to make it look white. 

We also grew up being taught that Washington had wooden teeth. It seems that is not true either, actually the  set made when he became President was carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory, held together with gold springs. The hippo ivory was used for the plate, into which real human teeth and bits of horses' and donkeys' teeth were inserted.  Ewww...gross....I'm just sayin'.

We learned some new things today...hope you did too!

Snow Day in Texas

We have got 8 plus inches of snow today here in North Texas. It's been a while since we have seen that much snow in this area.

We of course had to bundle up and go play in the white fluffiness for a while. Here's a few pics.

Jumping on the snow covered trampoline.

Ethan making a snow angel.

 

 Our crazy dog eating a snowball out of Emma's hand.

 

Emma and daddy building a snowman.

 Emma throwing a snowball at daddy

The finished "Cowboy" snowman

Emma making a snow angel

Emma's snow angel

Daddy and Ethan having a snow ball fight.

Fun was had by all. We were cold and covered in snow, but memories were made.