I had to keep stopping while we were moving the mattress because the sunset was so gorgeous that I wanted to keep taking pictures!
1 week ago
Nov 9, 2007
Fridays sunset...
I had to keep stopping while we were moving the mattress because the sunset was so gorgeous that I wanted to keep taking pictures!
Hello new bed!
So this is our new bed...its a king size Simmonds Beauty Rest with the wonderful pillow top :) Very very comfy :) Can't wait to christen it tonight lol! And two new kingsize pillows as we had never actually got around to having kingsize pillows with the other bed!
Tara - thanks so much for the offer of the bed frame but we have decided not to bother with the frame until we have our new bedroom built over the garage in 2009......then we are getting a whopping great sleigh bed :) our bedroom right now isn't really big enough for a bed frame.....and I wnat a really nice big chunky sleigh bed in a couple of years....
Danica -
Danica, do NOT buy FLOAM...ever!!! It's nasty horrid sticky slimy messy stuff!!
Make sure you buy PLAY FOAM...its a completely different make and totally different product and we love it!
I bought mine at Scholars Choice on Calgary Trail...but I've seen it at a couple of other places since...like the store at Telus World of Science!
HTH
Make sure you buy PLAY FOAM...its a completely different make and totally different product and we love it!
I bought mine at Scholars Choice on Calgary Trail...but I've seen it at a couple of other places since...like the store at Telus World of Science!
HTH
After school snack....
This afternoon A made some toffee apples for when the children got home from school.....I didn't have one but they looked delicious!!!
Painting boxes
Last week A and S chose a box each in Michaels - a box they could paint. Today we spent the afternoon painting our chosen items!
Bye bye old bed!
Although right this second, the new mattress is wedged on the staircase stuck and the delivery guys can't budge it! YIKES!!!
Ok they can't get the mattress upstairs!!! so its downstairs because Lloyd says he CAN get it upstairs.....so - we shall see...but whatever happens, I am sleeping on that damn mattress tonight - even if its downstairs lol!!!!
Feeling crafty!
Abigail and Sam wanted to paint the boxes they chose at Michaels last week, so I sat and painted beside them...I've only done the first coat, so have another coat to do when this dries.......
You can see Abby and Sams boxes on the homeschool blog!
Sale on homeschool items!!
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14th Annual Canadian Home Education Resources
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Nov 12 to 24, 2007
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14th Annual Canadian Home Education Resources
Customer Appreciation Event
Enjoy our special prices from home!
Nov 12 to 24, 2007
Web Orders:
www.CanadianHomeEducation.com
Mail:
108 – 1289 Highfield Cr SE
Calgary AB T2G 5M2
Fax:
Fax (403) 243-9727
Email:
CHER@CanadianHomeEducation.com
In Store:
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Fri, Nov 17 10-6
Sat, Nov 18 10-5
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Tell a friend! They will be glad you did!
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Fun with pomegranates....
November is national pomegranate month...pomegranates are so cheap in the stores right now so make the most of them! We did some math experiments with them this morning.
Firstly A and S guessed how many arils were inside the first pomegranate...then we cut it open and washed off the arils in a bowl of water and counted them.
Then we guessed whether there would be more, less or the same amount of arils in the next pomegranate.
We did the same with the second and then worked out who was right :)
1st pomegranate guesses:
A - 1000
S - a lot!
J - 211
Actual amount of arils in the first pomegranate - 326
2nd pomegranate guesses:
A - more
S - a lot!
J - less
Actual amount of arils in the second pomegranate - 584!!! More than 200 more than the first pomegranate. I feel I was coned out of lots of arils with the first!!!
The second pomegranate arils were darker and sweeter so we guess that it was riper than the first!
After all that counting came the best part - the eating!!!!!! Mmmmmmmmm
Have you had yours???
November is National Pomegranate month......they are so cheap in the stores right now. Have any of you been making the most of the price? My children love them and Susie has been taking little baggies of them to school in her lunch.
You can read more about pomegranates and find recipes using them at :
www.pomwonderful.com/pomegranate_month.html
You can see the fun we had with ours on Abigails homeschool blog - homeschooling first grade in the links on the right!
Nov 8, 2007
Roller Boogie night!
My dvd of Roller Boogie arrived today so we sat and watched it tonight! Lloyd was VERY well behaved and only made a few sarcastic comments (and I do have to agree that some of the fashions were pretty bad lol - but I had never noticed that Bobby wears a tshirt with 'BJ' emblazoned on the front lol...of course Lloyd thought THAT was hilarious!!!
Susie sat and watched it as I had explained that it was my version of High School Musical lol!
Laurie sat and watched it and joined in on the sarcastic comments with Lloyd...
Christopher came in twice and rolled his eyes before walking out! Abigail and Sam had more sense and sat at the computer munching apples the whole time....
Me? I very happily watched the whole thing and could remember it line for line....even the Maids name and the tone things were said in.......
It was a very corny, badly acted, movie with a very bad wardrobe...but OMG it was so much fun to watch it again after all these years....I probably haven't seen it since I was about 12 or 13...so 23 years maybe? BRILLIANT!!!!!
I have this urge to take the kids to the roller rink now!
Susie sat and watched it as I had explained that it was my version of High School Musical lol!
Laurie sat and watched it and joined in on the sarcastic comments with Lloyd...
Christopher came in twice and rolled his eyes before walking out! Abigail and Sam had more sense and sat at the computer munching apples the whole time....
Me? I very happily watched the whole thing and could remember it line for line....even the Maids name and the tone things were said in.......
It was a very corny, badly acted, movie with a very bad wardrobe...but OMG it was so much fun to watch it again after all these years....I probably haven't seen it since I was about 12 or 13...so 23 years maybe? BRILLIANT!!!!!
I have this urge to take the kids to the roller rink now!
Less than 4 days......
It took less than four days for the chickadees to get through all the food in BOTH feeders - and they are BIG feeders! Needless to say, todays job was to refill the feeders - you should ahve seen the birds going crazy looking for the feeders while we were filling them :)
The Chickadees are about 2 foot away from me when I wash the dishes.....I have the window open all day so they can hear me clanking about in the sink and running the taps hard...they don't seem to mind at all! In fact I've even caught them perching on the windowsill looking at me :)
They call to each other when they are done as if to say to their friend 'I'm done - its your turn'....
No breakfast
I had to cancel breakfast with Val today - which means we haven't had breakfast for weeks and weeks and weeks! Hopefully next week!
Sam started coming down with a cold or something last night...he hasn't been himself for days...but he didn't seem ill...just more tired than normal - but last night he started sneezing green snot constantly...he snored all night long LOUDLY!!! And then this morning the green snot continues....and I have to be fast to wipe his nose or he uses his hands or shirt or sleeve.....so nice!!!!!
Lloyd will be home just after lunch as we have our builder coming over as well as the furnace company.....so people here all afternoon.
This afternoon Abigail and I are making toffee apples. We are also going to work on the pomegranates some more...you all know its pomegranate month right?????? and this is part of our healthy eating topic for grade 1...as well as the sharpness/ bitterness/ sweetness of the Arils can be a part of our 'Five Senses' topic.
Lloyd printed off our lapbook kits today - we bought them last night from hands of a child....anyway..all this will be on our homeschooling blog - you can click on the link on the right to read all about it!
I am hoping to go out for coffee with lloyd tonight but we shall see how the day progresses...I may change my mind and want to stay home and be lazy instead!
Sam started coming down with a cold or something last night...he hasn't been himself for days...but he didn't seem ill...just more tired than normal - but last night he started sneezing green snot constantly...he snored all night long LOUDLY!!! And then this morning the green snot continues....and I have to be fast to wipe his nose or he uses his hands or shirt or sleeve.....so nice!!!!!
Lloyd will be home just after lunch as we have our builder coming over as well as the furnace company.....so people here all afternoon.
This afternoon Abigail and I are making toffee apples. We are also going to work on the pomegranates some more...you all know its pomegranate month right?????? and this is part of our healthy eating topic for grade 1...as well as the sharpness/ bitterness/ sweetness of the Arils can be a part of our 'Five Senses' topic.
Lloyd printed off our lapbook kits today - we bought them last night from hands of a child....anyway..all this will be on our homeschooling blog - you can click on the link on the right to read all about it!
I am hoping to go out for coffee with lloyd tonight but we shall see how the day progresses...I may change my mind and want to stay home and be lazy instead!
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