Keira I want an Oreo please Later I…

Keira: I want an Oreo please.
Later: I want more Oreos
Later: I want another Oreo
Later: I want 2 Oreos.
Keira is messing with the woman at speech therapy, she can’t get Keira to use the word ‘more’.
Last night IHS taught Keira the difference between ‘on’ and ‘under’ in 20 minutes – that guy needs to become a speech pathologist.

File this under Only Riley Tonight we were…

File this under: Only Riley
Tonight we were walking out of Taekwondo and Riley tells me her foot hurts. This is Riley, if something hurts she’s laying on the ground in hysterics. So I tell her I’ll look at it when we get home.
We get into the car and she takes off her shoe and said in a carefree voice “… and now it’s bleeding.”
Me: Bleeding?
Riley: Only a little bit in one spot.
Me: Put your finger on it until it stops and I’ll look at it when we get home.
At that point I was turning into traffic and it wasn’t gushing blood. Plus THIS IS RILEY! If Riley THINKS something is going to hurt she starts in with the drama and she wasn’t even whimpering.
We got home and I look at her foot AND IT’S BLUE!
She has a huge blue bump on her foot above her toes. No tears, no drama, nothing just “my foot hurts”.
So now I have questions like – What did you do?
Keep in mind I was there the entire time! I could see her every move. There were only 2 kids in tonight’s class and most of the time there were 2 instructors. She wasn’t hit, slapped, kicked or bunched and she didn’t do any of those things to anyone else. For most of the hour she practiced her forms! FORMS! You don’t touch another person or anything else when you’re doing forms.
Her response was something about slipping around the water cooler area.
I have no idea what she did. I’ve see the water cooler it doesn’t typically attack people. And even if I hadn’t been right there every second, there were only 2 kids with 2 instructors there tonight – someone would have noticed if the water cool had suddenly jumped up and whacked her.
Not to mention I know the instructors well enough that if the water cooler suddenly started going after the students they would have mentioned it. That’s just the kind of story you have to tell people!
Tomorrow I’m going to have her reenact whatever it was that she did to get a big blue bump on her foot – I’ll keep you posted.

It’s been a good day It started out…

It’s been a good day! It started out with getting Keira off to school, then taking Riley to get her birthday gift, and then back for an online meeting, then a call to unemployment about benefits, then Keira got off the bus and we were on our way to Speech. No time for lunch so I stopped at BK to get fries for the girls. I was running 20 minutes early ended up being 5 minutes late thanks to the BK drive thru. Anyway. After speech we went home and my MIL came over with Riley’s gift and I made plans for IHS to pick up Keira at TKD because it was Riley’s last practice before the board breaking demo at Barbra Bush. Met the new in home support lady for the first time at TKD. She and the manager who was training her were there to pick Keira up just about the time it started to downpour! Got home with Riley, IHS finished up late so we waited for them before I took the girls to the market to get dinner and groceries, made dinner, ate dinner. Made plans for Riley’s sleepover party which will be after the board breaking demo. Contacted a few people about sponsors, reviews, and other stuff. And NOW I’m going to get some ice cream and watch the season finale of Deadliest Catch. And that is a Good Day!

Solution for the Middle East Gaza Ultimatum Israel…

Solution for the Middle East (Gaza)
Ultimatum: Israel/Hamas/Palestinian/Miscellaneous faction either grow up, learn to get along and play nice OR we make them Americans.
Bring Mc Donald’s, High Fructose Corn Syrup. Strip clubs to every street corner and Congress to Gaza! Within 10 years they will be fat lazy uneducated Americans to ignorant to do anything more than post their political views on FaceBook. (……think about the irony)

I would love to make this for Keira…

I would love to make this for Keira, but I don’t think it would last long.
Flower Power Valance
I have been asked a lot
for this pattern
so I have decided
to write out
the directions for you
on how I made it
This is only the second
crochet pattern I have
written so let me know
if there is something that
I need to write a little better
You can find the
half flower tutorial here
Have a look at it if you
are unsure on how to do
any of this full flower
There are lots of pictures
that may help you
You will also need
this tutorial to make
the half flowers
for the valance
Flower Power Valance
Crochet hook US size H
I used Sugar & Cream and Peaches & Creme yarn in various colors in addition to other various brand cotton yarns that I had. Unfortunately I cant tell you how much yarn I used because I already had a lot of different colors in my stash.
DC = Double Crochet
CH = Chain
ST = Stitch
SL ST = Slip Stitch
Magic Ring = If you are not sure how to do this Google How to Crochet a Magic Ring
Join as you go = If you are not sure how to do this Google Join as you go Crochet Method
There are lots of tutorials on the internet for these methods
Full flower
Row 1: Make a magic loop. CH 3 (counts as first DC) 11 DC in magic loop. Join with SL ST to 3rd CH of beginning CH 3. 12 stitches.
Fasten off if you are changing colors.
Row 2: Join the next color in any DC. Ch4 (counts as your first DC & CH 1). DC CH 1 around in each ST. Join with SL ST in the 3rd ch of the beginning CH 4 to close round. Do not fasten off. 12 DC with a ch 1 space in between.
Row 3: SL ST into the first CH 1 space. CH 3, 2 DC in the same CH 1 space. 3 DC in each CH 1 space around. SL ST to the 3rd CH of the beginning CH 3 to close round. Fasten off if you are changing colors. 36 DC (3 in each space).
Row 4: Join next color in any DC. CH 3 DC in same stitch CH 4, *skip over one DC, 2 DC in next ST, 2DC in next ST chain 4*. Repeat from * to * around until last 2 ST, SK 1 ST, 2DC in last ST. Join with SL ST to 3rd CH of beginning CH 3. Your ending join will be between the 2 sets of DC. 12 CH 4 spaces. Do not fasten off.
Row 5: Make 8 DC in chain 4 SP. Skip 2 DC, SL ST in between the 2 sets of DC. SK 2DC, 8 DC in next CH 4 SP. Repeat around. To end round SL ST in beginning ST and fasten off.
I used the join as you go method when making this curtain. The join was in made in between stitch 4 and 5 of the 8 DC on the last row. See the picture on where to join each flower.
Assemble as follows
Row 1: 8 full flowers
Row 2: Half flower, 7 full flowers, half flower.
Note: I added the full 7 flowers first, then went back and added the half flower on each end with the join as you go method into the space. See the picture for where to start your first full flower on the 2nd row. It will not be directly under the 1st flower. You will be joining the flowers on the bottom of the 1st row and on the sides of the 2nd row as you go.
Row 3: 2 full flowers on each side
Row 4: 1 half flower and 1 full flower on each side. See row 2 for the order in which they were added.
Row 5: 1 Full flower on each side.
So there you go!
If you want to make your valance
bigger or smaller
just add or take away
flowers
I would love to see
your
Flower Power Valance!
Robin
http://onceuponapinkmoon.blogspot.hu/2013/05/flower-power-valance-tutorial.html
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IHS uses techniques to get Keira to communicate…

IHS uses techniques to get Keira to communicate. Keira learns the techniques and uses those techniques on us to try to help us learn to communicate. lol
Keira: “Dance.”
Me – starts dancing.
Keira: “I want ah dance please.”
Me – take Keira’s hands and start dancing.
Keira – walks me over to the TV: “Dance”
Me: “I don’t understand.”
Keira hangs head as if she’s disappointed in the progress that I’m making. Very slowly says “Daaaaannnnnce”
Me: “Music? Do you want Amazon Cloud?”
Keira – lifts my hand and puts it on the buttons on the TV (This would be something we would do to help her learn to do something)
Me – I turn on Amazon Cloud, Music Starts.
**Keira: “Give me a High Five. Great Job!” **
Apparently I made progress. lol

The Delicious No Oven Blueberry Muffin Recipe That…

The Delicious, No-Oven Blueberry Muffin Recipe That Only Take 3 Minutes (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/blueberry-muffin-recipe_n_5513071.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
Moncel’s Blueberry Mug Muffin recipe:
Ingredients
¼ cup flour
1 Tbsp brown sugar
¼ tsp baking powder
⅛ tsp salt
pinch cinnamon
½ Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp milk
1-2 Tbsp frozen blueberries
Instructions
1. In a microwave-safe mug, stir together the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon until well mixed.
2. Add the butter to the mug and use your fingers to rub or smoosh them together until no large chunks of butter remain and the mixture looks like damp sand.
3. Stir the milk into the butter/flour mixture. It should now resemble a thick muffin batter. If it’s too dry, add a splash more milk. Sprinkle blueberries over top and push them down into the batter. Microwave on high for approximately 90 seconds.
If you’re not craving mug muffins yet, the topping ideas Moncel suggests will change that fast.
“I like to do a little drizzle of maple syrup, that makes it extra pancake-like,” she says. “You can do honey, if you like. And sometimes, I even drop a little spoonful of peanut butter down into the batter before I microwave it, and that makes an extra gooey, peanut center and kind of gives that peanut butter and jelly effect with the blueberries.”

Tea Light Projects http www morningcreativity com dig…

Tea Light Projects
http://www.morningcreativity.com/dig-glass-jar-tea-light-holder/
http://bananafrog.typepad.com/bananafrogblog/2009/06/stamping-school.html
http://afieldjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/little-lanterns-tutorial.html
http://goinovertheedge.blogspot.com/2012/08/flameless-tea-light-birthday-cake.html

Tea-light luminaries


http://afieldjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/little-lanterns-tutorial.html
http://www.curbly.com/users/capreek/posts/13491-how-to-make-a-diy-folded-paper-star-lantern?tru=VzM1T#jump

Holiday Tea Light Holder

Last night I dreamt I moved into a…

Last night I dreamt I moved into a 2 story family house. Big front porch. All finished. There was a hallway that ran along the front of the house between the living room and the stairs so you didn’t have to walk back through the entire house to get to the staircase to go up stairs. We were almost moved in when I went into the bathroom to put stuff away when one of the girls went running through the hallway behind the bathroom the one that ran from the living room to the stairs. And that’s when I realized the bathroom didn’t have a back wall, it just opened into the hallway. It had a door on the side where you entered from the kitchen, but the bathroom was entirely open to the hallway. I just stood there watching Keira run back and forth from the stairs to the living room thinking “this is what they meant by open family style bathroom.”

ME Just let me get this straight You…

ME: Just let me get this straight. You weren’t paying attention and you were fiddling with something in your desk when your teacher yelled at you – and YOU’RE Angry?
*Pause*
ME: Would you have done that in TaeKwonDo?
Riley: No, of course not. In TaeKwonDo we show respect to our masters and instructors.
ME: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR TEACHER IS?
Riley: But I hate her!
ME: But she signs your permission slip for your next belt test.
Riley: I think …. maybe …. I need to reconsider apologizing.
*Pause*
Riley: But I hate her!
ME: I could have Mr. Littlefield explain respect to you.
Riley: Or I could just apologize. Apologizing sounds good.