As most of you know I love to paint, I don’t know why I find it so rewarding but the instant satisfaction just trills me. So in true thrifty fashion when I heard about this I just had to share. Glidden is giving away a quart of paint to anyone/everyone that wants it. Pick your color enter you address and boom you get your paint (well maybe not boom, more like weeks but hey its free what can you say!). Dylan has been begging for green stripes in his room so I ordered my green! Check it out and order yours today (really hurry the offer ends July 2nd)! Go here…
Archive for June, 2009
VBS – H%*!
June 26, 2009Well sickness floated around VBS (vacation bible school for those non southern/church folks, don’t worry I didn’t know either until we moved back and had kids) and finally caught up with us. The kids got it, then I got it…lord know where it will land next. Thankfully it went swiftly and we are all on the mend now. The kids had a ton of fun learning and playing with friends from church old and new. Crafts are every where and they have only tried to set our holly bush on fire a few times (you know the burning bush and all). We haven’t stopped singing and dancing for two weeks now.
The kids had dentist appointments Wed. and all check out great! No cavities! We do have one loose tooth though! Dylan is happy to announce that he has his first loose tooth! I am happy to announce that loose teeth are not my department! Even as a kid I just let my teeth wiggle until they were hanging by a “thread.” It was well established before kids came along I would handle womanly things and Shane would handle all teeth. Anyway we will be minus a tooth hear soon expect pictures (probably taken by Shane).
to T.V. or not to T.V…
June 19, 2009That is the question.
Shane and I upgraded the TV in our bedroom (the 19″ baby TV just wasn’t cutting it for us old blind people anymore). So now we have the little TV with no home. I grew up with a ton of TV, but I never had one in my room until I was like 16. Shane barely had cable until he was older. Dylan seems to think he should have the TV in his room…
If we did put it in there we would not hook it up to cable (just a DVD player for approved movies) and it would come with some mega rules about when he could watch it. Never after bed and that sort of thing, he is one of those kids that if the TV is on it takes him that much longer to go to sleep. Unlike Ella who will conk out at the drop of a hat in front of the TV. Should he really have it in his room at all though…is he too little? Will it cause too much distraction. Should we just try it? I am afraid that if we do we may never get it out of his room again.
I’d do a poll but no one seems to answer them…just leave me comment or shoot me an email and let me know what you think.
Blogaversary
June 16, 2009
), I thought it was time for a little change. What do you think?We’re a hot mess…
June 16, 2009Wow, I’m not a very good promise keeper am I.
Well the week since school got out has been crazy. After running from one end of the year party to the next, then picnics and award celebrations, then the start of t-ball, then schools out, what do I do with the kids all of a sudden…I swear my head hasn’t been on quite straight in a month.
Dylan made it out of kindergarten reading on his grade level and all ready for first grad, and not having any clue what summer break meant. Three days in he comes in asking if it’s a school day and that he missed his friends sooo much. The poor boy just had no clue. He knew that he would have a new teacher next year, and only a few of his friends would be in his class but he just didn’t get that he would be going three months without seeing most of his friends from class (no matter how many times we told him). His awards ceremony was great, he won an award for being a consistent courteous helper. He was very proud of himself until the neighbor boy got an award for reading, then he was jealous and wanted that award too. He is also super excited about t-ball, which we started two weeks ago. He keeps getting super mad every time it gets rained out (which seems to be a lot right now).
Ella finished her school too, she really loved her teachers and also didn’t quite understand the concept of summer vacation. She is pretty good at going with the flow though, despite the fact that she keeps telling me “Mrs. Steed (her teacher) said SO!!”. She has another year of preschool before kindergarten but is already pretty confident with her letters and numbers. We just found out that we qualified for the “More at 4″ program (which is a state run and paid for preschool program for children deemed “at risk”, which basically means their parents don’t have money rolling out of their pockets, or English is their second language). She will actually end up in the class room of the teacher we thought she would have this year, at the same center she was in this year. We are excited it will enable her to be in a full day program (8-2) that really focuses on kindergarten preparedness. And it’s this little thing called, FREE! Yes I’m a cheapskate I know.
Now that summer has started working has become a whole new complicated mess. I am having to work when I am able to have some one else watch the kids which is pretty hard when you only have 1 person who is willing/able to help (our lovely neighbor, thanks Sabrina!) To repay the favor, I am keeping her kids when she works too, wow it does make me glad we stopped at two. Four brings a whole new level to the chaos.
A Promise
June 11, 2009I will blog later, maybe even tonight or tomorrow, it has been one of those weeks…
