Well, I have finally made the switch to blogger. Our new blog is HERE
This post is dedicated to my husband’s deranged sense of humor.
I am always, always, always looking for new ways to keep us organized. I remember when we first moved into this house I thought that there was no way that we could ever fill it up. Well, we have, and we are overflowing…hence, my need to simplify and organize is never satisfied. My latest quest has been the kid’s closets. We tackled those this weekend and came up with the idea of getting out a week’s worth of clothing at a time. Now, I’m also cheap and don’t want to spend money where I don’t have to, so we decided to make this storage thing ourselves. Since, we aren’t overly creative, we used an old bookcase and paper. Works great. Here it is…
This one is for the girls, and to help with the words, Ben added pictures. We actually tried to add a picture of what we were doing that day. Sunday – church, Friday – Co-op, etc…Take a look at Saturday…it’s our work day…
Hilarious. Funny thing, I don’t think they argued too much about the correctness of the picture…As a matter of fact, when Q saw it, he said, "Yeah, we’re just your little slaves."
This past weekend the kids found some rocks that had been buried in our backyard for some time. They cleaned them up, polished them, and then set about making a small business for themselves. They set up their rock shop on our front lawn with their "Crystals for Sale" sign and then commenced waiting.
After a while of not having any actual paying customers, Ben went outside and purchased a great set of "crystals" that now decorate my dresser. S was in my room when Ben brought them to me and we asked her if she wanted to go outside to buy one for herself. We even gave her a nickel to do it. She said, "I can’t go outside without a, a……..a……(searching for the word inserted here)…….a……..a tall human."
This picture really does say it all about Halloween doesn’t it? However, check out the latest movie in the sidebar and you will see me being a "Bah-Humbug".
Later on that night H said, "no mama, this is a goodmare." Yep. Then Q replied, "a kid’s best goodmare." Well…99.7% of that candy is still around…so I guess that is a kid’s best goodmare!
We were eating breakfast the other day when H looks and me and says, “I have ham in my body.” ??? She continues…”no really, N said that I have meat in my body.” Why ham is all I can wonder.
Speaking of body, around the same breakfast time, S informs me that “God lives in my belly.” She told me again tonight that God lives in my body. Talk about a new spin on Jesus living in your heart.
During dinner last night Q asked for another pancake. I could have leaned over and handed it to him except for the very large beach ball in my lap, so I flipped it to him,,,across his brother. It hit the edge of the table and fell to the floor. All he said was “Well,,,that didn’t work.”
Finally, (though not actually mealtime for us), we were finishing up our woods study in science and were reading about owls. I told the kids how owls swallow their prey whole when N says to me “Man, that must not have ANY flavor. I swallowed A LOT of raisins yesterday and they didn’t have any flavor.” I wonder if the mice know they are dying in vain?
To add to this mealtime enjoyment, here are some pictures of the kids dissecting owl pellets.
Q unwrapping his pellet.
N finding skulls of mice.
S wanted a paper to do the project, but once she saw what was going on she said "That’s gross to me." Hey, at least she used her pronoun correctly!
I didn’t have any stills of H’s work, but I added the video in the sidebar. I accidentally cut it off too early as right after it stops she said "This is Scientist Harper signing off, have a good day."
It was a good day.
bnbandy