vicious cycle

When will I ever learn?? If I just keep washing clothes, I'm going to have to keep folding them and putting them away! I'll never be free!! AAAAAAHHHH!

Children's Summer

Summer time
garden hose
riding bikes
spending time
ice cream trucks
wading streams
watermelon
hot dogs
shady trees
long days
crickets song
swinging, sliding
trampoline
catching bugs
shooting stars
dirty faces
wet clothes
happy mother's summertime.

"Julie's Thoughts" Blog giveaway

In case anyone hasn't been to Julie's Blog lately, she's having another excellent giveaway. Go check it out @ juleskeepstherules.blogspot.com
Gotta love Julie.

April Fools Day 2010

Here we have our double layer Meat-loaf cake with mashed potato frosting, and chicken nuggets and baked potato after school snack.(The nuggets are bananas rolled in toasted coconut and graham cracker crumbs- borrowed that idea from Sharra. The baked potatoes are vanilla ice cream rolled in hot cocoa mix with frozen whipped cream on top to look like sour cream). Not nearly as nasty as last year, everything was actually pretty tasty, although my husband refused to eat the meat-cake. I guess he's too visual.

Hundredth Day

Yesterday marked the 100th day of school, making the year about half way over. Sometimes in the doldrums of winter I will celebrate just about anything.
My eldest was a little sad that in fourth grade they weren't celebrating this milestone, while his younger sister's class was. So I promised to plan something. This is all I did, but it made him happy. After he guessed which one had 100, and how much was in the other containers, we had to do something with those chocolate chips; so I made some cookies. It's fun being the mom.