Entries from February 2007

February 28, 2007

Maggie Moo’s

We had the tastiest field trip today, at Maggie Moo’s. The owner and an employee took us around the front where they make up the goodies,and the owner showed us around the back where they actually make the ice cream. He was making up dark chocolate and orange ice cream, which we got to taste!

In [...]

February 27, 2007

Done with Beta

So rather than wait till tomorrow, Molly finished up her Math today too! She now moves on from Beta to Gamma….of course now she can’t do any math till I buy the next set, I wasn’t expecting her to finish already.

February 27, 2007

On to Zeta!

Laura finished up Epsilon …Math U See names the levels for the Greek alphabet, and Laura is starting Zeta tomorrow…the last book before pre-algebra! She did THREE lessons today just so she could finish it today. Tomorrow will be exciting too…watch for news about Molly.

February 24, 2007

I got some actual sewing done!

So with letting the girls have the week off of school, I got a lot of sewing done. I found this red fabric at Salvation Army, and figured it would make a nice muslin if nothing else, for a gored skirt. I like how it turned out. Still have to hem it, but my ace [...]

February 22, 2007

The sewing mess challenge

Debbie over at stitches and seams    mentioned the challenge to show our sewing areas “as is”. I’m game. Here it is:

I don’t have a sewing room anymore, just a space in my bedroom. And I spent the last couple of days cleaning things out, so it isn’t as messy as it was. This first picture [...]

February 19, 2007

Rock of the Marne

Rob is in the 3ID….in Savannah GA(HUNTER AAF). His buddy Steve(in the picture, with the off kilter 3ID badge!)  will be joining him(at FT. STEWART) shortly. Here’s wishing they get to spend their 21st birthdays together on March 5 and 6. The cutey in the picture with him is Colleen, sweetie of Steve and little [...]

February 19, 2007

this week on Nature: Raptors

silly Oreo
raptors are big in real life
not like little birds
*alternative ending suggested by dad: they eat little cats

February 14, 2007

Pictures!Snow!Cake!

We got a LOT of snow! It was too deep to actually play in.

Laura worked really hard on her first decorating job!

 Here is a picture of the finished cake that Molly and I made and Laura decorated.
I sure hope I can get the hang of this blogging thing soon, I have some other pictures I [...]

February 9, 2007

A sad time for Little House fans

It was bad enough when Harper Collins announced they would be removing the art work of Garth Williams in favor of snapshots in  the books, but now they are going to abridge the pre-Little House books by Melissa Wiley. http://ebeth.typepad.com/reallearning/ and http://melissawiley.typepad.com/ tell the story. I’m sorry that Melissa won’t be writing any more books in this [...]

February 5, 2007

A note from the snowglobe

You know that feeling of anxiety you get sometimes, when you feel like panicking but you aren’t sure you should? I’m feeling it now. Rob called tonight…they had their predeployment briefing today, he has to work tonight getting helicopters ready to go, we set up my AKO account. The panic isn’t about him leaving as [...]

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