Here is a project that I did for Christmas time but just never posted about. It's an Advent Calender made out of a mini-muffin tin, in case it may be hard to tell =)
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Random Craft
Here is a project that I did for Christmas time but just never posted about. It's an Advent Calender made out of a mini-muffin tin, in case it may be hard to tell =)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Here's how the wall looks now...
It looks pretty messy- I'm going to take it down soon and just put it all in a book...I just had wanted her to be able to see it all at one time. (the open book shows the picture of King Mosiah's sons- that is the picture I used for the K week, but of course I wouldn't rip it out to hang it up...)
Is this getting boring? I'm sorry if it is...I'm still hanging on, so I'm still gonna blog it.
Letter M:
I have to be honest, over the holidays I totally relaxed my plan again. For M we still talked about Mary on Day 1, Made an M out of a picture of Macy on Day 2. Since it was Christmas, we did a lot of Mary and Merry Christmas. We also wrote and talked about her name, since it's "her" letter.
Letter N:
Day 1: We did Naomi this week so I could talk about Ruth, who I love.
Day 2: We made an N out of a Necklace
Day 3: We got special "Toy Story 3" mac and cheese and Macy got to keep several Noodles shaped like Buzz, Woody, Alien guy, and Hamm (I think?. She had fun making them talk- that girl can turn anything into a "baby".
Day 4:I had seen an Easter craft in Parents magazine where you could make a Nest out of that poster tacky stuff and sticks- pretty easy and fun little thing to do. I decided to try out their other craft too of cutting an egg carton and setting an egg in it to make a little chicky to put in the nest. cute.
Day 5: I made a little "flannel board" (though just paper...) out of the story of Naomi, Ruth, Orpah, and their husbands- and how they triumphed.
The Nest
Naomi, Orpah, and Ruth "Flannel Board"
Letter O:
Day 1: I'm not sure if it's really...umm, sanitary? But we made our "O" out of orange peel- people use them in potpourri right?
Day 2: I know it's slacker-ish, but I had Orpah be my letter "o" girl- a woman with an "O" name? Just gotta do it.
Day 3: Again with the slacker mentality- we played with our paper doll story board to tell the story- mostly so we could talk about Ruth again.
Day 4: We made Owl cookies- "WHOO is your Valentine?"
Day 5: We made an Octopus out of cool bubble wrap we stamped.
Owl Cookies
It looks pretty messy- I'm going to take it down soon and just put it all in a book...I just had wanted her to be able to see it all at one time. (the open book shows the picture of King Mosiah's sons- that is the picture I used for the K week, but of course I wouldn't rip it out to hang it up...)
Is this getting boring? I'm sorry if it is...I'm still hanging on, so I'm still gonna blog it.
Letter M:
I have to be honest, over the holidays I totally relaxed my plan again. For M we still talked about Mary on Day 1, Made an M out of a picture of Macy on Day 2. Since it was Christmas, we did a lot of Mary and Merry Christmas. We also wrote and talked about her name, since it's "her" letter.
Letter N:
Day 1: We did Naomi this week so I could talk about Ruth, who I love.
Day 2: We made an N out of a Necklace
Day 3: We got special "Toy Story 3" mac and cheese and Macy got to keep several Noodles shaped like Buzz, Woody, Alien guy, and Hamm (I think?. She had fun making them talk- that girl can turn anything into a "baby".
Day 4:I had seen an Easter craft in Parents magazine where you could make a Nest out of that poster tacky stuff and sticks- pretty easy and fun little thing to do. I decided to try out their other craft too of cutting an egg carton and setting an egg in it to make a little chicky to put in the nest. cute.
Day 5: I made a little "flannel board" (though just paper...) out of the story of Naomi, Ruth, Orpah, and their husbands- and how they triumphed.
The Nest
Naomi, Orpah, and Ruth "Flannel Board"
Letter O:
Day 1: I'm not sure if it's really...umm, sanitary? But we made our "O" out of orange peel- people use them in potpourri right?
Day 2: I know it's slacker-ish, but I had Orpah be my letter "o" girl- a woman with an "O" name? Just gotta do it.
Day 3: Again with the slacker mentality- we played with our paper doll story board to tell the story- mostly so we could talk about Ruth again.
Day 4: We made Owl cookies- "WHOO is your Valentine?"
Day 5: We made an Octopus out of cool bubble wrap we stamped.
Owl Cookies
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Due to recent events that have led me to conclude that people over the age of 40 should be banned from facebook...I will not be posting anything that remotely relates to how I actually feel about my life on fb anymore. This irritates me very much because I do very much like to ask mothering/cooking/life questions to a large audience of my peers to get a varied response. oh well. So, that leaves me with this blog I guess...even though it's not private because I theoretically like to join linky parties. Anyways- if I had a status right now it would be one of those annoying ones starting a ban on old people and telling everyone else to post that as their status too- I really hate those kinds of status updates, but this is a cause I can stand behind.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
So I'm one of the Relief Society teachers- yeah I know, sucks huh? There was a meeting on Sunday for "training" and when I got there it was me and two other ladies that are probably in their seventies that have been teaching RS since we've lived here- so at least 4 years....
Now, I think this all started because I was extremely reluctant to accept this calling- there are about 8 women out of the 50 or more women in RS who are under the age of 50. I am not being dramatic about that either- seriously our ward is one of those "newly-wed or nearly dead" ones. Needless to say, I am not too excited to teach women who know 500 million more things about the gospel than me. Oh, and did I mention they all don't remember even one tiny bit of what it was like to raise young children so a lot of them are pretty judgmental? Anyways, I didn't want to do it, but the bishop said the presidency had already been sent back to pray about it by him and they said they were sure they wanted me. So, basically I had no choice. Awesome.
Back to the meeting- it was all about how if you are "personally worthy" you will be a really awesome teacher. I took out of the meeting:
a. I am the only one in this room who needs "help" with the calling, so I am now The Service Project
b.You think that just because I don't like my calling, I must be having some personal worthiness issues??!!??
c.Everyone has been judging me and talking about me even more than I already thought
d. I'm so excited that you just gave me a whole other list of CRAP I have to do to "be a good teacher"- what all that other stuff like visiting teaching, going to the temple, family home evening, reading scriptures, doing family history, doing missionary work, writing in your journal, feeding the missionaries, writing in your journal oh and did I forget BEING A GOOD MOM- was that NOT ENOUGH STUFF TO DO????
okay- I would apologize for my rant, but your know what- I'm not sorry. Could you tell?
Now, I think this all started because I was extremely reluctant to accept this calling- there are about 8 women out of the 50 or more women in RS who are under the age of 50. I am not being dramatic about that either- seriously our ward is one of those "newly-wed or nearly dead" ones. Needless to say, I am not too excited to teach women who know 500 million more things about the gospel than me. Oh, and did I mention they all don't remember even one tiny bit of what it was like to raise young children so a lot of them are pretty judgmental? Anyways, I didn't want to do it, but the bishop said the presidency had already been sent back to pray about it by him and they said they were sure they wanted me. So, basically I had no choice. Awesome.
Back to the meeting- it was all about how if you are "personally worthy" you will be a really awesome teacher. I took out of the meeting:
a. I am the only one in this room who needs "help" with the calling, so I am now The Service Project
b.You think that just because I don't like my calling, I must be having some personal worthiness issues??!!??
c.Everyone has been judging me and talking about me even more than I already thought
d. I'm so excited that you just gave me a whole other list of CRAP I have to do to "be a good teacher"- what all that other stuff like visiting teaching, going to the temple, family home evening, reading scriptures, doing family history, doing missionary work, writing in your journal, feeding the missionaries, writing in your journal oh and did I forget BEING A GOOD MOM- was that NOT ENOUGH STUFF TO DO????
okay- I would apologize for my rant, but your know what- I'm not sorry. Could you tell?
Monday, January 3, 2011
Letter Project Part 3
Well, I pulled a muscle in my back and so that means I can't really fold clothes or do dishes right? My doctor said only blogging is allowed...or something like that. I feel retarded that it's been so long since I posted about this because now that adds up to a lot of letters, but hopefully it's not too boring for everyone (aka the 2 people who read my blog).
Letter I:
Day 1- We made our "I" out of "ice cubes". I used the clear plastic that batteries
come in and scotch tape to make three dimensional squares. It took awhile but
I think it looks pretty cool- I think I will keep them after this project is
over for play food.
Day 2- We talked about Issac and Rebecca. I never realized that when Rebecca
served the water to the animals that it was Issac's kinsman there and not
Issac himself. I always thought that's how they fell in love- maybe it was,
but indirectly. Am I the only one who didn't know that?
Day 3- We made an igloo! I used stale marshmellows and vanilla frosting piled over
an upside-down bowl. It was fun!
Day 4- We made Irish Creme hot chocolate and read books about Iguanas
Day 5- We played with Ink- (stamps)
Letter J:
Day 1: Macy is OBSESSED with Toy Story right now (and Rapunzel haha), so we made
our "J" out of pictures of Jessie the cowgirl from that movie.
Day 2: I felt like we needed to talk about Jesus for "J"- I told her different
stories each night and looked at tons of art.
Day 3: Ate JELLYBEANS of course!
Day 4: We made Jello and drank special "little" Juice boxes
Day 5: We made a Jester hat out of construction paper =)
Letter K:
Day 1: We made a "K" out of "kisses"- putting on lipstick and kissing the paper!
Day 2: We read and learned about King Benjamin
Day 3: We made a Kitten mask from my mil's notebook of activities
Day 4: Austin's company is called KPMG- we made cupcakes and wrote the letters on
them.
Day 5: I was excited to think of making Kabobs with fruit and cheese for Macy's
dinner.
Letter L:
Day 1: We made "Ladybugs" out of little red stones by drawing black polka-dots on
and made our "L" out of them.
Day 2: We talked about Lehi and his family- we used those Book of Mormon stories
that are drawn- almost like "comics"?
Day 3: Another activity that was in our little activity book was to make scones
and build them into a little alter like stones to use to tell the story
about how Lehi made an alter to pray in thankfulness for saving him and his
family.
Day 4: Lucky for me we inherited a cool bug puzzle where you "build" the bugs- and
one of them was a Ladybug ( I know, lots of the same, but give me a break!
haha).
Day 5: Our wonderful cousins passed down some boy clothes for us to give to
neighbors, lucky for us, though, we caught BUZZ LIGHTYEAR pajamas before we
gave them away! Macy has only worn two things for the last 6 weeks- her
Rapunzel nightgown and these pajamas...
Letter I:
Day 1- We made our "I" out of "ice cubes". I used the clear plastic that batteries
come in and scotch tape to make three dimensional squares. It took awhile but
I think it looks pretty cool- I think I will keep them after this project is
over for play food.
Day 2- We talked about Issac and Rebecca. I never realized that when Rebecca
served the water to the animals that it was Issac's kinsman there and not
Issac himself. I always thought that's how they fell in love- maybe it was,
but indirectly. Am I the only one who didn't know that?
Day 3- We made an igloo! I used stale marshmellows and vanilla frosting piled over
an upside-down bowl. It was fun!
Day 4- We made Irish Creme hot chocolate and read books about Iguanas
Day 5- We played with Ink- (stamps)
Letter J:
Day 1: Macy is OBSESSED with Toy Story right now (and Rapunzel haha), so we made
our "J" out of pictures of Jessie the cowgirl from that movie.
Day 2: I felt like we needed to talk about Jesus for "J"- I told her different
stories each night and looked at tons of art.
Day 3: Ate JELLYBEANS of course!
Day 4: We made Jello and drank special "little" Juice boxes
Day 5: We made a Jester hat out of construction paper =)
Letter K:
Day 1: We made a "K" out of "kisses"- putting on lipstick and kissing the paper!
Day 2: We read and learned about King Benjamin
Day 3: We made a Kitten mask from my mil's notebook of activities
Day 4: Austin's company is called KPMG- we made cupcakes and wrote the letters on
them.
Day 5: I was excited to think of making Kabobs with fruit and cheese for Macy's
dinner.
Letter L:
Day 1: We made "Ladybugs" out of little red stones by drawing black polka-dots on
and made our "L" out of them.
Day 2: We talked about Lehi and his family- we used those Book of Mormon stories
that are drawn- almost like "comics"?
Day 3: Another activity that was in our little activity book was to make scones
and build them into a little alter like stones to use to tell the story
about how Lehi made an alter to pray in thankfulness for saving him and his
family.
Day 4: Lucky for me we inherited a cool bug puzzle where you "build" the bugs- and
one of them was a Ladybug ( I know, lots of the same, but give me a break!
haha).
Day 5: Our wonderful cousins passed down some boy clothes for us to give to
neighbors, lucky for us, though, we caught BUZZ LIGHTYEAR pajamas before we
gave them away! Macy has only worn two things for the last 6 weeks- her
Rapunzel nightgown and these pajamas...
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