Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Here's a little "taste" of what we've been doing to celebrate. My lovely sister and 5 adorable kiddos came to visit, and she brought all the goodies to make these fun treats- RAINBOW CUPCAKES! They were SO fun to make, and they turned out exactly like they were supposed to. We got the recipe from Family Fun magazine. Let's just say we were VERY impressed with how great of a job we did on these. Aren't they just perfect?





Monday, March 15, 2010

Happy Monday

Happy Monday!  I'm kinda glad it's almost over, actually.  It hasn't been a bad day or anything.  Just long.  The time change sure messes with our brains!  
I know this isn't the most exciting post, but I'm new with this blogging thing, so I'm just playing with it.  I only have one follower(you know who you are).  I hope you're enjoying this:).  
Let's see.  What did we do today?  It was a fairly typical day for this homeschooling family.  Woke up late(I'm blaming the time change for that). I made banana muffins hoping to cheer the kids up on a dreary, foggy Monday. Started school around 10ish. Took a break for lunch.  Long break.  Oh, and while I was preparing lunch, the kids tore diapers apart and took out those tiny water/pee absorbing crystals and made "gel" out of it.  Kinda cool.  So, I called that science.  Wow, we are multi-taskers!  Science AND lunch at the same time(because, yes, they ate while they "experimented")!  After their/my VERY long break, I read a couple chapters of On the Banks of Plum Creek(I even teared up at one point in the reading-I love that book!) .  Next, we loaded up all the crushed soda cans and brought them to the recycling center.  Jadan made 10 bucks!  Very cool!  Then we finished off the afternoon with a trip to the library.  After we got home, I spent about an hour trying to decide what to make for dinner.  At around 6:45 I started making dinner and we finally ate around 7:45!  Sweet and sour chicken and rice.  I even made my own sweet and sour sauce, mainly because halfway through cooking I realized I needed that instead of the stir fry sauce I thought it needed.  The kids LOVED it, to my suprise.  
Wow, this was quite the rambling post!  I hope you enjoy, special blog reader(s)!  I'm off to maybe play a quick game with the kids before bed.  Let's pray they fall asleep a little better tonight!
~Jess


Thursday, March 11, 2010

My sister is making me do this! :)

This is officially my very first blog post!  My very sweet sister is helping me.  I've been wanting to do this for awhile, so I'm finally jumping in to the blogging world.