My hair smells like grease!

And I love it! Had some super people over for fondue. We dipped and dripped and burned our lips. ;o) It was quite fun.

Reading at school

Being a parent, I have noticed that
there has been a huge push on reading to children. I say it like it is something new or something. Maybe the incouragment to read to kids happened a long time ago and I didn't notice cause I wasn't looking for that sort of thing but now it is in all the parenting books. Products like "my baby can read" are coming out. (no they can't by the way) (They might memorize the words but they aren't understanding the sounds and able to tie them to new words). I decided to do my research paper on it cause I want to know more about the perks. Some are obvious but I wanted to explore some I hadn't thought of. I will post my findings here later. There is a company that my friend is associated with that donates a box of new books to a classroom as long as they get volunteers to come and read them to the class. It is so cool. It is a nice way to get parents involved and to volunteer. It isn't a financial burden to the teachers or parents. I am heading off to Pete's class now to earn them a book.
I will keep curious minds posted about my findings on the reading research.

day off tomorrow

Two hour delay for the kids (sleeping in) and school is cancelled for the preschool. It looks like I can get some cleaning and baking done. Not to mention another class of homework down. Another one bites the dust. I am really liking this teaching thing.
Here is the to do list for today:

gather library books for return
sweep
dust
call on preschool observation
call for sitter for John and I to have a date
make triple batches of pizza dough to freeze
chocolate chip cookies (shhh for my love)
rice krispie treats (for chess)
pull up a journal article and critique
walk the dog ( I promised her)
finish test for physical science
all the while doing laundry.
I think I can ....... I think I can........I think I can

Oh yeah, then watch my show at 8:00. Not missing the v-day special. I love my diaries!

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Ok so update on the list
Made all the food
swept
dusted
worked on journal entry
and took dog for a walk
Oh yeah, got a ton of laundry done.
forfeited the rest for lunch with my little men at their school.

I will have to finish tomorrow.
Time for a my diaries!

Top things we love about the winter

The boys chose to have a camp out in the living room Friday, so while playing games and watching movies we made a little list. ;o) (my favorite)

Top things we love about winter

Parker

1. Christmas


2. Snow


3. building snowmen


4. sledding


5. fire in the woodburner


6. hot chocolate

Payton

1. Christmas


2. Jesus's b-day


3. sledding


4. making snowmen


5. watching it snow


6. hot chocolate

Daddy

1. fresh snow


2. breath in the cold air


3. the stillness


4. snowdays


5. when it ends

Mom

1. slippers


2. corn bag


3. indoor fires


4. hot chocolate


5. watching it snow


6. warm bowl of soup

Here is a link to one of my favorite soup recipes.http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipes/rachael-ray-30-minute-meals/Toasted-Orzo-Chicken-Soup I have discovered that lemon rind in chicken types of soup is the bomb! And also that I heart Orzo.

Christmas break part two

Here is the second thing Parker had on his list to do. He wanted to make something from his cooking papa (mama) video game. We made Fried Gyoza's. They were soooo good!

We made our homemade Empagnada dough for the Gyoza's. It is funny every culture has some kind of version of this.

Ice Hill

Parker made a list of things he wanted to do over Christmas break. One of which was to go sledding. We didn't have alot of snow but thought we would give it the best shot we could. So off we went to the local snow hill. We were pleasantly surprised to find the snow hill open and vacant! Mind you everytime we have ever been to the hill it has been packed. So we took advantage of the time and played until our heart was content. It was much fun! Here are some shots of our adventure.