Thursday, May 8, 2008

playing

with noodles.

G- "Can I eat one?"
Me- "No, they are old and yucky and not cooked."
1 min later
G- "Can I eat one?"
Me- "I already told you- no."
1 min later
G- "Can I eat one?"
Me- "No." [rolling eyes]


Look at this smile. He was so happy when he saw me take these out.

He gets to practice pouring, sorting and when he's done- cleaning (he doesn't know that part yet).

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

my sister


Her name is Brittany. She lives an hour away. She has a boy two weeks younger than Ethan. We are nothing alike. She is a friend that I don't often see. Or lately talk to. I miss her.
Random:
-When our bedrooms were next to each other, we would tap the wall with messages we probably didn't understand, when we should have been sleeping.
-I threw a snowball at her once. I had hidden a piece of ice in it. It wasn't pretty. I don't even know why I did it.
-She tried to run away when I was babysitting her.
-She used to mimic my tap dancing.
-We used to make home movies with our cousins. She did some great commercials. :)
-She wore the most awesome and 'her' oufit to her Grade 8 grad.
-She threw her diaper over the fence at some boys.
-She also threw my hamster.
-We shared a room at times. It was messy.
-We played dress up together.
-She couldn't keep a secret as a kid. She told our mom that dad bought her some birds for Christmas and they were at our Grandma's.
-She loves animals and has fostered and owned many.
-She has awesome lips.
-She is 3 years younger than I am.
-She rode her bike to the convenience store when she was three or four. By herself. No my mom didn't let her.
-She has a tattoo and a tongue piercing.
-She is beautiful.
-She probably doesn't know how much I love her.

Monday, May 5, 2008

***image heavy***

Just some random pics from this weekend.
My garden:




My boys:



Ethan's squirrel house (an idea from The Creative Family):
Ethan building his squirrel house:


Desi:
Some craft time yesterday:
Ethan loves to create things, Gavin loves to play with the supplies.


The kids and I made some awesome bread this morning. It was a recipe from soulemama.com called WHO bread (wheat, honey and oats). It was sooo good, and it used ingredients that I had on hand, which was nice since I haven't been shopping too much lately.

Friday, May 2, 2008

I did it!


I made a journal yesterday! It really didn't take that long, if it did I wouldn't have finished it. I don't know what I enjoyed more- making the journal or just finishing a whole project in no time! I had hoped to use all recycled papers, but I knew it would take days to find what I wanted, so I used some blank white pages, some scrapbooking papers I had left over and some 'found' papers like envelopes. It was alot of fun. While I cut the pages to the right size, Gavin was cutting up papers into a million tiny pieces (one of his favourite things to do). That kept him busy and Ethan was at school. I used a pad of paper that measured 4x5.5, so I cut my other papers to that size and then I didn't need to cut every single page. I also used the chipboard backs of the pads as covers. I put a picture of each boy on the covers and bound with kraft paper from a lunch bag. Total cost = approx $1.50 (because the scrapbooking papers were scraps anyway).





Here's a tutorial video : Photojojo

Thursday, May 1, 2008

so much

I want to do right now:
1- learn how to sew
2- learn how to embroider
3- learn how to use my camera better
4- study the Bible more
5- do more crafts with the kids
6- go on a vacation with Perry
7- make books (journals)

Too much going on, I don't even have time to go to the grocery store.
It's a good busy, I guess. But I don't know when it will stop.