Step 2: Get out the pumpkin guts
Step 3: Admire your newly carved Jack O'Lantern
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Pumpkin Carving 101
Step 1: Draw the face
Step 2: Get out the pumpkin guts
Step 3: Admire your newly carved Jack O'Lantern
Step 2: Get out the pumpkin guts
Step 3: Admire your newly carved Jack O'Lantern
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Pet Peeve
Wow! Another post, already. I'm starting to feel prolific.
Anyway- saw an add on tv for free popcorn. Popcorn that's free. Who wouldn't want to try this? I diligently get to the website, fill out the info, hit the enter key and Wham! I am hit with a $5.90 shipping and handling fee.
The free popcorn is not longer free. I quietly close the window and decide not only will I not get the free popcorn, but I won't even try this brand of popcorn if it ever hits my local store shelves. So sorry D*** & Th**** won't be trying your brand.
I've tried free offers before. In fact, I got a rather, um... interesting K*shi bar in the mail today. It was free. No shipping and/or handling.
In other words.... Free. Meaning free.
Anyway- saw an add on tv for free popcorn. Popcorn that's free. Who wouldn't want to try this? I diligently get to the website, fill out the info, hit the enter key and Wham! I am hit with a $5.90 shipping and handling fee.
The free popcorn is not longer free. I quietly close the window and decide not only will I not get the free popcorn, but I won't even try this brand of popcorn if it ever hits my local store shelves. So sorry D*** & Th**** won't be trying your brand.
I've tried free offers before. In fact, I got a rather, um... interesting K*shi bar in the mail today. It was free. No shipping and/or handling.
In other words.... Free. Meaning free.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen random things, thoughts, or ideas.
1. Just because you can cartwheel doesn't mean you should do it in the house.
2. Playing hangman at school should not involve calling the
"hangman" the name of a child who "bugs you and is mean".
3. A piano horn is just as annoying as a recorder if your 7
year old plays it as loudly as she can.
4. Fall weather is wonderful. Wonderful that is, when it
goes below 75 degrees.
5. I am a human dictionary to my 7 year old.
6. It's a good thing the 7 year old doesn't ask me to spell
words that are any more difficult than "because or I'm".
7. If you drove your parents nuts when you were a teenager,
they will drive you nuts in their 60s.
8. Mothers never stop giving advise. Wanted or not.
9. You can never have too much cheesecake.
10. Homework stinks.
11. Just as you begin to enjoy the quiet, you realize it's too quiet.
12. The Spongebob theme can easily get stuck in your head.
13. Why would you use that toothbrush for the dog?
1. Just because you can cartwheel doesn't mean you should do it in the house.
2. Playing hangman at school should not involve calling the
"hangman" the name of a child who "bugs you and is mean".
3. A piano horn is just as annoying as a recorder if your 7
year old plays it as loudly as she can.
4. Fall weather is wonderful. Wonderful that is, when it
goes below 75 degrees.
5. I am a human dictionary to my 7 year old.
6. It's a good thing the 7 year old doesn't ask me to spell
words that are any more difficult than "because or I'm".
7. If you drove your parents nuts when you were a teenager,
they will drive you nuts in their 60s.
8. Mothers never stop giving advise. Wanted or not.
9. You can never have too much cheesecake.
10. Homework stinks.
11. Just as you begin to enjoy the quiet, you realize it's too quiet.
12. The Spongebob theme can easily get stuck in your head.
13. Why would you use that toothbrush for the dog?
Friday, October 12, 2007
Lucky 7
Now you can call me Lucky 'cause Lucky's my name
Singin' and dancin', that's my game.......
I was born 'neath a lucky star
They said I'd go far.....
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Yup. The Pipsqueak is 7 today. I still can't believe how old she is. Seems like yesterday that a little, scared 17.5 month old came off the plane from India and was handed to me.
So Happy Birthday Little Girl. I know you'll go far.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Monday, Monday
Today is Monday. Monday is today.
Today it reached 90+ degrees. In the midwest. In October. What in the world is up with the weather? Ninety-plus degrees in the midwest in October is so wrong on so many levels I'm not sure where to start.
First, the leaves. They should be changing. Some are, most aren't. It's a bit depressing to know you should be seeing the lovely autumn hues and instead are trying to keep the air conditioner running at a decent temperature to avoid heat exhaustion.
Pumpkins. Where are all the pumpkins this year? I should be able to stop almost anywhere on a country road and buy a pumpkin. I can't find them. I refuse to spend $6.00 for a grocery store pumpkin when I am surrounded by farms on which I know pumpkins grow. I think I'll be heading to an Amish farm this week to see if I can find a pumpkin- or I'll be heading to the local pumpkin farm that supports our local schools field trips.
Fall clothing. Summer clothing. They are one in the same thus far. I'm never quite sure what to dress the Pipsqueak in for school in the morning- so I send her in layers. I'd love to be able to start wearing the fuzzy sweaters and sweatshirts. Will I ever be able to wear my favorite flannel shirt again?
Today it reached 90+ degrees. In the midwest. In October. What in the world is up with the weather? Ninety-plus degrees in the midwest in October is so wrong on so many levels I'm not sure where to start.
First, the leaves. They should be changing. Some are, most aren't. It's a bit depressing to know you should be seeing the lovely autumn hues and instead are trying to keep the air conditioner running at a decent temperature to avoid heat exhaustion.
Pumpkins. Where are all the pumpkins this year? I should be able to stop almost anywhere on a country road and buy a pumpkin. I can't find them. I refuse to spend $6.00 for a grocery store pumpkin when I am surrounded by farms on which I know pumpkins grow. I think I'll be heading to an Amish farm this week to see if I can find a pumpkin- or I'll be heading to the local pumpkin farm that supports our local schools field trips.
Fall clothing. Summer clothing. They are one in the same thus far. I'm never quite sure what to dress the Pipsqueak in for school in the morning- so I send her in layers. I'd love to be able to start wearing the fuzzy sweaters and sweatshirts. Will I ever be able to wear my favorite flannel shirt again?
I've just heard the weather report- 70 degrees tomorrow. Oh how I hope the weather folks are right.
Friday, October 5, 2007
In the Classroom
Things I never thought I'd hear myself say. Ever. (In the elementary classroom)
1. Math manipulatives don't go up your nose!
2. If you hadn't put the rubber band around your head, we wouldn't be in this mess right now.
3. Why, why did you put your head through your desk? (In which the boy proceeded to get stuck and have to be gently tugged out.... it was an old-fashioned desk btw)
4. Do you stand on the toilet seat at home?
5. Get the crayon out of your ear!
6. You are not a dog. Please stop chewing on your pencil, shirt, paper, etc
7. Child: "She called me the K word." Me: "What's the K word?" Child: "Krazy!" Me: "Oh"
8. Why did you lick his shoe?
1. Math manipulatives don't go up your nose!
2. If you hadn't put the rubber band around your head, we wouldn't be in this mess right now.
3. Why, why did you put your head through your desk? (In which the boy proceeded to get stuck and have to be gently tugged out.... it was an old-fashioned desk btw)
4. Do you stand on the toilet seat at home?
5. Get the crayon out of your ear!
6. You are not a dog. Please stop chewing on your pencil, shirt, paper, etc
7. Child: "She called me the K word." Me: "What's the K word?" Child: "Krazy!" Me: "Oh"
8. Why did you lick his shoe?
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