Saturday, September 27, 2008

Maybe jelous

I am officially anti sewing. I have many freinds and family that like to sew. I am officially against the use of needles and thread by people who can find adorable fabric. AND who then post their wares on a blog, site or other form of mass media. (curse you kirtsy)

Hear are the examples of why.

1. This tutorial for fabric lables. Where on earth am I going to put a billion fabric lables that I really do want to make now!!

2. These adorable blankets! I actually tried one for a friend's new baby----ummmm all I can say is Sorry Dawn I should have forked over the 30 bucks.

I know I don't have a hidden talent. I will have to work and take a class:)
There are some adorable and cute projects to do!

Friday, September 26, 2008

Thing 2 and her picture taking skillz



These are self portraits by Thing 2

Seeing Yellow

I loved this idea from one of my friends about the Micro fiber towles. She told me I could stop using paper towels and go micro fiber. I just was waiting for the right price and time. Tuesday in Costco I found in the auto department 16x16 towels. 36 to be exact for 14.something. Then I went over to the paper towels and saw my snobby brand at $15 something! That was the clincher. Couldn't say no.

Pro's Con's

Wash and reuse No paper towels for bacon dripping
there are tons of them Dead bugs (I can use tissue)
So I won't run out. Bright yellow color.
Easy to spot yellow color.


Keeping the landfills clear of my paper towels does feel good. I used so many I can't even tell you. But I only go through two-three of these towels a day for all the cleaning up after the kids.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

School Trama Drama.


School has really presented a challenge for us in the past three weeks. Here in Davis they "tend" to hold back the kids so they are totally ready for kinder. I totally love this because we tried two weeks of Kinder for Gabe and it was a night mare. He was just so over cooked by the end of the day. He loved being there, loved doing what they were doing, but really struggled socially.

This was not a shocker for any of us. I had had so many reservations about putting him in. I just didn't want to be too over protective and not let him attempt it.
He was fried after a four day in a row stint. The kids were all older by a good year. So socially he was being ousted. He started getting the negative feedback from the other kids and he began to meltdown. I couldn't put him through it. Well not yet anyway. He will be going to preschool where he is going to struggle for the first two or three months until he gets the schedule and the routine down. He is really sensitive to activity changes. The problem is he is so darn cute about everything. Even melting down.
If we had the reverse problem. (Accedemically behind and socially up to speed) He would still be attending. I just can't put in a social grace where a year will place it for him. He is going to be great. He just needs sometime to warm up to the set up of kindergarten.

So this week we have been on tour, searching for preschools from State funded, to Montessori, to other crazy cool programs. There are so many programs available in the area I have a hard time choosing. There is one common theme in all the schools is CASH flow to get them in. Some programs we have visited have been more expensive than our RENT.
Tomorrow is our last "visit" to another program. I just hope we can find one that works for him.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Weekend trips to the Bay area.







Ok I am back to blogger and I have so many posts to catch up on. I have been on a bloggy break and it is time to get back into action.
Let's start with The Band (AKA my hubby) He in the market for a new phone. He would like one that has all the bells and whistles. Due to circumstances that I will demo in photos.

Here on my left we have the first picture of what happened.

Over Confidence in canoing skills+4 year old+canoe= Phone shopping.


Ok I am back to blogger and I have so many posts to catch up on. I have been on a bloggy break and it is time to get back into action.
Let's start with The Band (AKA my hubby) He in the market for a new phone. He would like one that has all the bells and whistles. Due to circumstances that I will demo in photos.

Here on my left we have the first picture of what happened.


(I would like to extend a special thanks to the rescue team that went and fetched them out)