Guess it's been a while.

Fred commented to me last night that I was slacking on the Blog posts. I hadn't up-dated since Tuesday. Sorry honey.



So Friday was the Valentine's Day party day at school. I am a room mom for Will's room and a certified helper in Nic's. His room mom rocks it so I usually don't have to worry about much. Thankfully this party was filled with passing out the cards and then taking some time at the end to open them. We did play two rounds of Valentine Bingo and decorated cookies and that was it. I love a simple party. Both of the boys came home with LOTS of candy so Friday afternoon was a bit hectic as they were on a sugar high.
This is a little present I made for Will's teacher. Each kid wrote something that they liked about their teacher on a heart. I then attached the hearts to crafts sticks that I had painted green. I mounted them in green craft foam and added a few Gerbera Daisies (?) to fill it out. After a run to my friend Sabrina's house for a sprinkle of moss I was set to go. I was pretty pleased with the end result and I think Will's teacher was too.


After school we had the DI team over for practice. We made some models of ideas we had for the set and yesterday we spent many many hours putting our ideas into action. I would love to show you what the kids accomplished yesterday, it is really good stuff, but it is also quite TOP SECRET until the main event in just two weeks. I will say that kids have to be taught to paint. We had both painting with brushes and with spray paint and there were lots of things about that process that i just take for granted. Little things like standing with the wind when you spray paint so you don't wear more than your sun cut-out. Little things like the fact that the paintbrush does not get completely immersed in the paint and it should get wiped off on the edge of the can so you have more control over you quantity and you are not dripping it all over you and my garage as you move toward what needs painted.

A funny thing that happened yesterday was a phenomena, that is yet unnamed, wherein each member of our team at some point was so interested in the activities of another member that they would start their own task, see that someone else was doing something way cooler and abandoned their original task in order to join another, more interested task.

So people would start painting a background and see a couple of kids making boulders and just walk away from the backdrop and want to make boulders right along with the kids that had it well under control. Strange. I am sure there is some well documented and studied term for this phenomena. If you know it please share.

After we kicked the DI kids out I was beat but I had bought steaks and planned to make them for our at home Valentine's Dinner. I took a quick hot shower to get my chilly bones warmed up and emerged to make the meal. It was mostly good as usual. I have a REALLY hard time timing my meals and I did it again. My noodles were done early and Fred's steak was never done to his satisfaction. He like a medium well steak and the boys and I like medium rare. I should really work on that technique and try to do better for Fred. He is always the one who suffers.

After dinner Fred helped me clean up the dinner dishes and kitchen and then I sat. I sat for the rest of the evening and read, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I was anxious to get through it and I absolutely ignored all else until I wrapped it up at about 11:00. I had taken a bit of a hiatus from reading last fall and through the winter and transition back to this house. I love to read and we have a really great library here in Frisco so I am excited about getting through a few good books at a phenomenal price!



OK, my to do list is long today. We are going to church tonight as a family. I need to put money in Nic's lunch account, need to talk about GT testing with Will, finish up the laundry I started yesterday, find some details for a costume for Nic's DI character and get to the library to return some books. I know that there is more but I can't remember it. I think I wrote most of it down so I will need to check my list.


Hope you are having a great day and that you have a great week. Take care!