Cultural literacy includes great movies
We also taste-tested 4 kinds of Girl Scout cookies and rated them to find out which one was the best. Thin Mints and Lemon-Ups tied for first with Samoas coming second and Trefoils third. However, every cookie was someone’s favorite.
We also watched Return of the Jedi a couple days later. It was unsurprisingly the kids’ favorite because it has Yoda and the Ewoks.
The only thing better than hot, fresh naan is beautiful brown-eyed children eating the hot fresh naan.
The only thing better than that is eating the naan with them.
Monett Cub Run results: Blueberry Pie placed 3rd in his age division with a time of 25:06
The Man of the House won his age group with a time of 25:25!
(Blueberry Pie called his age group the “Neanderthal” age.)
In other news, Judging by the pile of butter knives on the counter this morning, my kids must have used a new knife for each peanut butter sandwich they made while I was gone.
At least they fed themselves. That’s a win for me.
Eggs Hunts seem like such a hassle, but the kids love them so much. It’s always worth the hassle.
Zeke was the first to crawl, but Skeeter is the first to tripod. Who will walk first? !!
We be chillin’ all day while the big kids are at school.
When the captain is gone for a weekend drill, his side of the bed does not stay empty. The kiddie pies take full advantage of the situation.
Baby Bean is 2 months old!
She weighs 14+ pounds.
She smiles and coos at us.
She drools and makes spit bubbles.
A lot.
She does not sleep from 9pm-1 am.
Sigh. I’m doing pretty well on just 5 hours of sleep a night.
It sure is fun to snuggle this little fatty. I had forgotten how much I love babies.
This is our new Family Home Evening job rotation chart.
I made it. *self-satisfied smirk*
I am so proud of it and it WORKS!
We have a special night each Monday where we get together and sing a couple songs, have a short spiritual lesson/devotional, eat a treat, and play games together.
At least that has always been the goal, but it didn’t happen regularly enough.
Then I made the job chart. I looked on Pinterest for inspiration. There were many beautiful, trendy charts pictured. Some were even a free printable download. But they had two problems:
1- usually they only had 4 jobs, some had as many as 6, but I needed 8.
2- my children who are not old enough to read wouldn’t be able to tell what their job was.
Then I stumbled across a picture where the family had hand drawn bodies for each job and then everyone made a self portrait head. The heads rotated from body to body each week.
I drew this one– tracing some to make the bodies more uniform. Then I gave each person an oval to draw their face in. I mounted the ovals on card stock and Popsicle sticks to make them easy to handle. The chart is mounted on a Manila file folder. I used a mat knife to cut slits through the folder at each neck.
I love this chart because:
1: the kiddie pies are so excited about it that we haven’t missed a family home evening in 4 months, except the Monday is was in hospital with the new baby. In fact, Key Lime Pie gets upset because she wants to have family night more often.
2: The ones who can’t read can look at the bodies and know what their job is.
3. it looks like something my mom or aunt would have made back before there were computers and free printables online for everything. Back when you had to make stuff yourself.
4. it is hilarious when Blueberry Pie or The Man of the House is in charge of the song, and their head is on the body with the necklace.
5. The self-portraits are awesome. Key Lime Pie’s face is purple because she insisted on coloring the blood that is under her skin.
6. did i mention that I made it?
I had scanned my body drawings and made a PDF for anyone else who wanted to use it, but that file is trapped in my dead computer, so if you love this idea you’ll just have to make it yourself like I did. It’s worth it!
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 