growing & learning with him
We had a dinosaur visiting at our house for Thanksgiving yesterday. JDaniel was right beside me as I went through some boxes yesterday morning and he noticed his dinosaur costume.
He dragged it out of the box and insisted that I put it on him. He wore it all morning and during lunch.
JDaniel looked so cute rushing around, tail swinging, scales flopping up and down. If he hadn’t spilled milk on it during lunch, he would have worn it all day.
How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality… Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness; they draw people.
I came across this really fun Veggie Tales DVD called The Star of Christmas. It is a great story that has Bob and Larry putting together a Christmas musical called “The Princess and the Plumber”. Unfortunately they have competition for an audience. As with all the Veggie Tales, there are a lot of fun hijinks going on.
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JDaniel must be cutting some pretty tough teeth. He has been waking up at all hours of the night and napping only one hour in the afternoon. We are all sleep deprived.
I am hoping the tryptophan in the turkey will do the trick for everybody.
I was sent a coupon to get a free container of Alouette Cheese as member of She Speaks. Cheese is a favorite of everyone in my house.
We tend to buy hard cheese for snacking and cooking. The sundried tomato and basil soft cheese we tried from Alouette was really good though. It has a strong sundried tomato flavor that was great with whole grain crackers.
I tried spreading it on salmon just prior to cooking it. I thought it would melt and leave behind a nice tomato basil flavor. It actually didn’t leave any noticeable flavor. I will need to work on how to best work with the Alouette Cheese in cooking.
It has flavor that would be good on so many things. They have a website of recipes. I think I will start there.
Ingredients
2 8oz. pkgs cream cheese
1 Tablespoon Seasoned Salt
4 Tablespoons finely chopped green pepper
1/2 of 8 oz can crushed pineapple (drained)
4 Tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 cupped chopped nuts (I use pecans.)
Beat cheese with fork or mixer. Stir in ingredients, except the nuts. Roll in chopped nuts. Put on plate and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate one day. Serve with crackers.
My friend Cathy sent this me. I thought the answers were really funny. I hope you enjoy them.
Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.
Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.
Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
(Brilliant logic – love this!)
A: Keep it in the cow.
Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.
Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? ( e.g., abdomen)
A: The body is consisted into three parts — the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels A, E, I, O, and U.
Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie.
I had a parent few years ago who had a limited reading ability. She was a very humble woman. Each night that I sent home an assignment she didn’t understand she would call me at school. She checked over her son’s assignments as soon as he walked in the door. If he couldn’t remember what he was supposed to do or she didn’t understand any of the words on the assignment, she called me by 3:30 p.m. I was still there at 3:30 p.m. and could easily give her the help she needed.
I had another parent about fifteen years ago who would send in a homework assignment back undone. She would tack on a note saying her son said he couldn’t do it independently so, she didn’t make him do it. I would start each morning going over his homework and having him do it. He could do it. He just needed someone to point him in the right direction.
Guess which parent was telling their child school and learning were important.
JDaniel made this lovely turkey. He had a little help with it. Okay! He had a lot of help with it.
The turkey now lives on our refrigerator. I love displaying his work! JDaniel is so proud of his work being displayed.
If you go to this web site www.LetsSayThanks.com ,you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It is FREE and it only takes a second.
Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you’s.
Thanks Cathy M. letting me know about this program!
