Going Through Life One Blog Post at a Time
Someone decided to do math today without being prompted. He sat down and started adding up “1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 = 4” and continued all the way to “19 + 19 = 38” until he ran out of room to write. Not only that, but he was getting them all correct! Obviously, he doesn’t get that from his mother…
…steps up and snuggles with very tired Little Brother. It calmed him down immediately. She’s the best!
It’s time for the great Christmas decoration pack up. My family room is a disaster… And this is nothing compared to my living room!
I finally found fabric that I liked enough to use for springtime chair seat covers. My dad made the fourth set of seats well over a year ago, but it wasn’t until last week that I finally found a fabric that I liked. Bonus – I found TWO fabrics that I liked and I will also replace the old red chair seat covers that are horribly faded and use those for summer. The striped seats are ready to be put on our chairs tomorrow. The flower fabric will be used for the summer chair seat covers. Unfortunately, I do not have quite enough staples left for my staple gun to do all six summer chair seats, but I can probably get three done. We will just have to make a trip to Home Depot to get some more staples soon.
…goes too fast. I recycled the last of the sippy cups today and took the Munchkin Dishwasher Basket out of the dishwasher for the first time in *seven* years. A bittersweet day.
It is time for the Cotton Bowl! Go Tigers! AND… Just in case the Cotton Bowl is awful, we’ve got picture-in-picture going. We can switch off to the Orange Bowl and watch the “other” Tigers, as in Clemson. The “other” Tigers are beloved by Andy’s oldest brother, Jim. So, Go Tigers! Bring home a Cotton Bowl (Orange Bowl) win!
Laura finished up another Girl Scout Brownie badge today. The girls had the option of working on the “My Family” badge over their winter school break. Laura said it was really fun to learn all about our family. One requirement for the badge was to make a family tree. She and Andy did that part together because Andy already has a lot of our family tree completed. Another requirement was to share about an item that is special to our family. Laura chose to talk about our clock, which was made by my Grandpa Otto.
The final requirements were to make a family dish and share it at a potluck with the rest of her Brownie troop. Laura helped me make an apple pie using the crust recipe that both my Grandmother and Mom used. She actually did most of the work on the pie crust though she declared that using the rolling pin was hard because she “couldn’t push down hard enough.”
The potluck dinner with her Brownie troop was great! Getting to sample all the family dishes and hearing the stories about the dishes was really neat. I am so glad that the girls had the opportunity to complete this badge.
We finished the day with a cookie meeting. Yes, it is that time of year again! Girl Scout Cookie sales start tomorrow! If you want to order from Laura, just let me know. There are eight different cookies this year. She has a goal of 200 boxes and I really want to help get her there. I can even ship the cookies to you if you are out of town!
