Another Day Out of School and Dr Seuss Week

They cancelled school again today. Apparently, it was so cold, all that snow just turned to ice causing icy conditions on the roads. This decision was not made last night, but sometime this morning setting into motion the lovely automated phone calls from the district... at 5:30am!


This is the first good snowfall we've had in a few years, but the fact is, we live in the northeast, where this weather is not uncommon. For that reason, I feel they should build some snow days into the school year, but they never do. Every day we get out of school adds a new one onto the end of the school year. Our calendar states that June 18 is the "tentative last day for students". That has now been bumped to June 23. That is the longest they will run the school year, though. If we have any more days off after today, they start taking away from spring break! This annoys me for so many reasons!


In Texas, we always had two weeks off for Christmas. They only get a week to ten days here, depending on what days of the week the holidays fall. We don't start school until after Labor Day which is nice, but we go pretty far into June. Apparently, this year, almost to the end of June!


On to other subjects... this week was supposed to be Dr Seuss week at Noah's school. Yesterday they were supposed to wear their clothes backwards and mixed up. Today was supposed to be "silly sock day". Tomorrow, is set to be "crazy hat day", so I concocted a hat based on Green Eggs and Ham. It was much harder to make than I anticipated. Maybe that is because I had planned on making it yesterday and today during Zoe's naptime, but did not count on Noah being home too! It's been a crazy few days and I can't say that the hat turned out how I had envisioned it, but it's done.

Snow Day

We took the ruler out in the yard this afternoon and the final tally is eight inches. Not bad. ( as always, you can click on any photo to see it larger)

View from the front door:




View from the back:



Kids watching it snow:



A plow truck just went by. Zoe is waving to him.











A headless snow angel- Noah would not lie his head back in the snow!



Ewww.. I don't like this!!



Still not liking it...












Noah wandering the north 40:



I just hit him in the face with a snowball.. bwahahahaaa!


I told him he could not reciprocate, because I had the expensive camera. Double bwahahahaaa!

Birthday Card

Our dear friend, Anne, is turning sixty this month. Her family had a surprise birthday party for her today and we thoroughly enjoyed it. For those of you that don't know her, she plays flute and piccolo in the community band with me as does her daughter, Melissa, who is my age. Anne and her husband, Roger, live in Browns Mills and have sort of adopted us as surrogate family. They have us over to their house every Christmas eve and are just such wonderful and supportive people. I wanted to make a special card for her for her birthday. This is what I came up with.

Paper is Basic Grey- Urban Prairie, the leaves and flowers are cut with the Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge, the square brads in the middle of the flowers are from Close to My Heart and the "Happy Birthday" stamp is by Fiskars.

Digital Stuff

The thread header I designed for this month's scrapbooking board:



I used the same digi parts to make a new siggie for my signature line in my emails and posts.

I used those awesome scattered rhinestones again.. I do believe that is my new favorite digital embellishment! All embellishments except for the rhinestones are from the Shabby Princess, Promise kit. The rhinestones are from the Winter Chill mega kit at iMotion studios.

Noah's Homework

I thought the day when my children's homework was too hard for me was still years away. Surely, as a college-educated woman, I could make it through at the very least, junior high before I started getting in over my head. Apparently not. I made it five and half months into kindergarten. For the record, I DID eventually come up with the answer, but it took me twenty minutes. Sheesh!

One of Noah's homework questions was to draw two things that END with the "b" sound. Noah couldn't even think of one. I immediatly thought of "tub" and gave him a few hints. He caught on, drew a bathtub and then we set about trying to think of a second word. Seriously.. think about it for a minute. I didn't want to use words with a silent "b" sound like, " comb" and "thumb" because that concept is a bit difficult. I had a heck of a time coming up with a simple word ending in the "b" sound that he can draw. We walked around the house and honest-to-goodness after twenty minutes, I walked back into the kitchen feeling defeated and a little embarrassed that Noah must think I'm a complete moron when I spotted Zoe sitting at the table eating , wearing her BIB! WHEW!! Thank goodness that assignment is over with.

The other one was to go on a bug hunt and draw a few favorite bugs. This is not the time of year for that.... we walked all over the back yard, looked in the playhouse, under the slide. No bugs. So, we pretended we were in Texas where there are bugs-a-plenty. Noah came back in, sketched a butterfly and a caterpillar and we called it done.

I think I am going to have to get my Master's degree in order to get him through to the 4th grade.

Just a quick Noah-ism

Noah goes to a gym class on Tuesday evenings called " Tumble Steps". Since I have rehearsal on Tuesdays, DJ and Zoe take him. Last night, DJ said the teacher told them they were going to fly their airplanes and they put their arms out and began to run around the room. The kids were all happily "flying" and "zooming" and Noah interjected, " Are we going to get to land in the Hudson?" DJ said there was silence in the room followed by laughter and strange looks from other parents.

Altered Journal

One of the ladies in my MOPS group was diagnosed with breast cancer in January. She was pregnant at the time, so they rescheduled her c section for two or three weeks early ( February 6) and the very next week, she had a mastectomy and will now undergo treatment for the cancer.

Our MOPS group is getting together a care basket for her of items she can use during her treatment. I bought some practical items, like unscented lotion to help with the dry skin from treatment and some word find and crossword puzzle books for the hours spent waiting. I came across a fairly nice journal in the dollar bin at Target so I picked it up and spend a good part of the day today altering it. I am very pleased with the results. The paper is Basic Grey: Blush, the "K" is a chipboard letter from Close to My Heart that I painted red with Making Memories paint and then covered with ruby Stickles. The chipboard scallop is Bazzil Basics and I painted it blue with MM paint as well. The smaller scallops are cut with my Cricut using the Accent Essentials cartridge and some more of the Basic Grey Blush paper. The doilie is just a Wilton cupcake doilie from a pack I bought for Valentine's treats.

inside front cover: