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"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it." - Danny Kaye
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Presents
It’s a challenge to balance presents between two kids. I wanted to make sure they were fair and equal, even if that meant size wise. Tomorrow is the last night of Channukah, and the big presents are a coming. They have been getting little gifts, a ball, playdoh, cars, new game.
The least liked gift, as least for Noah aka as the opinionated one, was the stuffed piglet on the first night.
Just minutes after piglet was opened….
Channukah - Day 1
…he ended up in the play kitchen oven.
Baked Piglet.
Kyle commented, “Your not treating Piglet like a friend, your treating him like a piece of meat.” And soon after that Noah wanted to put Piglet in the refrigerator.
I thought he would be into Piglet because he loves the House on Pooh Corner stories. And he’s been going through a phase where he is calling all of us different characters from the story. He is Strong Piglet. Apparently somethings are just better in his imagination.
The other gifts have going off swimmingly and with lots of enthusiasm. I’m actually not sure where Piglet has ended up at this point. One out of eight gifts is too bad.
Next year, I’ll plan better! I saw someone who did their holiday cards in the summer. I might just try that next year. Get to making my gifts and holiday cards done super early.
Then again, I may just be trying to survive a hot, humid existence.
New Scrap Fun
I found a new site called Scrapblogs. Oh so distracting!
Friday Fragments
I’m trying out this Friday Fragments business hosted by Mrs. 4444 at Half Past Kissin’ Time.
*I’m trying to figure out what “days” exist in the blogsphere, to continue to play with reaching out, writing, and reading the community out there.
*I’ve eaten too many Pringles this morning, and it’s only 9 am.
*I can’t believe October is almost over.
*I’m annoyed with one of my grad school professors. She is unprofessional and unhelpful. I have thought of many rude things to address in my evaluation of the class. I should have written them down, because now I can’t remember. I don’t think stating, “This class is stupid” will adequately justify how I feel. Although, I haven’t filled out a course evaluation since I started school.
*Noah and I bought a “thinking table” this week. We are going to use this instead of timeout. The idea is that Kyle and I should be modeling our emotions (anger, frustration, stress, etc) so that Noah can see how we deal with these situations. So far, he’s been okay with going and sitting there. Thinking. Though when he is done, he can’t remember what he is thinking about. Is that just a kid thing? To never remember what they did 5 minutes ago? We shall see where the thinking table takes us.
*My meal planning was all thrown off this week, and when that was gone I wasn’t sure what to do with my blogging self.
*At the Children’s Musuem this week, I had a vision of what it will be like to keep up with two walking kids (right now I can still strap Eli down and he ain’t going no where). It was a stressful vision, because I don’t know how I’ll keep up with both of them going in two directions, at completely different speeds. I fear I might lose one of them.
*This was a good week. I don’t know why, but it was better than last week. Sometimes, I’m pretty sure it’s my mind set. Or maybe it was the sick kid last week that threw everything all off. Ah, the sick kid. That’ll do it!
The Challenge
Twitter: @sarafree- Kiddo got a silly band today. I think I like them as much as he does : )
- @Mofthesea Ha! like the Bondage Baby.
- @Rikki Thanks! It's great that you still remember. Moms are filled with so much mommy knowledge!
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