
Friday, February 25, 2011
Just a girl and her dog

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tot School--Feelings
Recently I ran across a fantastic blog http://www.2teachingmommies.com/ that has lots and lots of ideas for home preschooling your tot! I've been working with Alyssa trying to get her ready for school and so this appealed to me a lot! They have units that go over a variety of different subjects. We did our first week in "Tot School" last week. We started with the Feelings unit. We really enjoyed the unit, but Alyssa is a little older at 43 months (I think the children featured in the blog are closer to 36 months) so we did have to modify it a lot. The units focus on pre-writing and Alyssa is already writing, so we substituted the prewriting for ABC writing practice. I just substituted where needed to make it fit our needs but over all I found this website to be a great resource for mom's looking for ideas to educate their little ones at home. They also have some great ideas for family nights and kid friendly recipes and that appeals to us as well! Alyssa learned a little more about sad, happy, mad and afraid and in all really enjoyed it! |
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Peanut Butter is gonna be a big sister!
She's cute huh? I know! I'm super excited to announce that we are expecting a Baby! We just found out and are due sometime in October. We are super surprised, super happy and a little nervous all at once! Long ago I nicknamed Alyssa "Peanut Butter." It's sort of a odd nickname for a tot but I call her that all the time. She thinks it's funny, and so she and I started calling baby "Jelly." Seemed totally appropriate. Jamey's excited but very nervous! He's even doing housework. I think he's afraid I'll hurt myself!
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Jambalaya and Bread Pudding
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Home Haircut
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Chicken thigh and sweet potato stew and a new quilt....
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
My not so great, very bad mom day....
Today has been quite a day...and since it's 4 pm...I'm so sad to say that it's hardly over. Ever have one of those days where you just sigh and wonder what else can go wrong? I'm a Stay at Home mom about most of the time, the the rest of the time I do work in a small hospital a few shifts a month. Occasionally I wonder if working full time would be easier...Today started off by my sweet, precious one arising at 6 am in a deplorably bad, demanding mood. I think we had "cup throwage" and crying about 5 minutes after arising. I was sick yesterday and missed my chance to grocery shop while said precious one was with her dad. So today we had to hit the grocery store, with mom not feeling quite 100% and itty bitty being well sorta less than good. Precious child of my heart was tremendously awful. Yes awful...Running circles around me, slinging stuff off the sleeves, crying, screaming...you name it she did it. Ever read "Llama Llama mad at mama?" Picture that minus the sweet patient mama at the end. 2 trips to have a "talk" in the bathroom and several disdainful looks from elderly people at the commissary later we finally left. I shop 2 weeks at a time thank the good lord above so that's over for a bit.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Finally Finished--Jamey's Quilt!!
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Braggin on my young un.....

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Feelings Unit from Tots school
So I am super, super excited! Next week Alyssa and I will be doing a Feelings unit that I got from this site http://www.2teachingmommies.com/2011/02/my-feelings.html and I have been asked to do a guest blog on my cousin's blog about the unit after we complete it. (She's also preschooling her 2 year old at home and has some pretty good ideas for crafts, counting ect. Her blog is http://633woman.com/2011/02/09/counting-fun-for-toddlers/ and she has a bunch of good ideas for fun/cheap activities with the developing young un. She's also craftier than myself and she's good at reusing materials to make games.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Letters and Shapes
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Valentine Mobile
I have been home preschooling Alyssa the last few weeks. It's been a lot of fun. I'm surprised at home much I enjoy our morning preschool sessions. Arts and crafts are my strong area....letters and numbers...well I'm getting better! We made this fun Valentine's craft that we got out of her highlights magazine (if you don't subscribe to it, it's well worth the money for your preschooler! Alyssa loves getting it in the mail and then working the pages and reading the stories!) Here's our craft that now hangs proudly in her room! (She even made extra for her friends for Valentine's Day!)
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Visit with the Putman family
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Off we go....To Alaska!!!
We have been restationed! Welcome to the life of a military family! Our family of 3, plus 3 furry critters is moving (again!). No one is ever THAT surprised that we are moving, we move all the time! But we are moving to Fort Wainwright, Alaska!! Shocked?? We were too! We had hoped to move closer to home (home being Alabama), and we are moving farther away! We don't have our official report date yet but it will be sometime this summer.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Tea with a Super Hero!

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Cruising!











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