I got tagged to do 8 things that make me happy (besides the obvious), so here goes:
SPRING: I absolutely love spring. I love the budding trees, the flowers everywhere, and the warm weather. I love that you can just walk outside and you don't need all the outside gear: coats, gloves, hats, or sunblock! It's the one time of year I'm not yelling at my kids to shut the door to the backyard. I love that my kids come home from school now and play outside. Everything is turning green, after looking at brown for a long time. Spring has sprung!
Miralax: Now this might be too much information for a lot of people, but I found Miralax a few weeks ago and Logan is loving it! He has had consitpation issues since he went to full time table food - and I have tried all I can think of. I've put things in his diet, I've taken things out of his diet, but no success. Enter Miralax - and we are loving it!
Couponing: I am not a serious couponer by a long ways, but I am getting into this world of craziness. To show my committment - I've just gotten my first newspaper subscription. Also, today I made $2.50 from getting an ink cartridge filled (want the details: refill is usually $10, I had a 50% off coupon, making it $5, and then they had a rebate for any refill for $7.50 - paying me $2.50 to fill my cartridge!). I have my favorite sites I follow that give me all deals and usually I'm willing to run out and get them! I can totally see how this can be addictive.
Swimming lessons: I have the perfect swimming lessons situation and I love it every year. I take my kids to a city pool where this year I'll have my oldest 3 in lessons. All 3 can be at the same time - see the wonderfulness of this? I'm there for 30 minutes and get all my kids done at once. To sweeten the deal - my sister puts her daughter in Emmy's class every year - so 4 kids in lessons at the same time, and my sister and I get 30 minutes every day to chat. To sweeten the deal even more - this pool charges half the price of any other lessons I've found. The couponer in me loves that!
Matching clothes for my kids: I love it when my kids match, and luckily for me I have a very generous sister-in-law who also loves her girls to match, and her girls are 2 years older than my girls! They get the cutest matching hand-me-downs and I love it. Tyler and Logan got their first matching item this week - I found them matching sandals and Tyler was so happy that he gets to match Logan.
Eating out: I don't know how much I love eating out or how much I hate cooking and cleaning up dinner. Either way, it makes me look forward to a restuarant!
Halloween: I love this holiday with kids. I think it's so cute that they get to dress up as whatever they want. It's so telling of their personalities and leads to so many endless conversations about what they can be that magical night. My kids talk about Halloween year round.
Bookmobile: Our city Bookmobile comes to the park by our house every week. My family is religious about going to the 'library bus' (as my kids call it). We go every week and fill up on books and movies. It's so nice to be able to walk to the library. And whenever we want something specific I just go online and have it sent to the bus. Thank heavens for the library bus!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Science Day
Our school had a school wide Science Day on Monday. They asked for volunteers to teach different lessons that the classes rotated through throughout the day (fyi, they got these awesome lessons plans and all the materials through Utah State's Jr. Engineering program and a parent in our school wrote a grant to Micron and they agreed to pay all of the $1400 for the materials! So yea us!). On with the story . . .
I volunteered to teach 2 rotations to 2 2nd grade classes. The rotations lasted 40 minutes each and I got assigned the topic of 'color'. I read the lesson plan and it seemed simple enough so I didn't put much effort into it. Tyler's class was first and we went through the lesson plan. Then I repeated the same thing for the second class. All in all I thought it went fine - certainly not a homerun of a lesson, but not a train wreck either.
That afternoon Tyler came home and we were talking about Science Day. He was telling me about the different classes they went to and then he told me that at the end of the day his teacher let each kid vote for their two favorite classes. He told me that he voted for mine with his first vote, and he was pretty proud that he'd used his voting power to vote for mine. So then I asked, and I shouldn't have, who else voted for mine. "No one". "No one else voted for me with their first vote?!" "No Mom, and no one voted for you with their second vote either. But I did Mom. I voted for you because you're my Mom." So many funny things: funny that Tyler voted for me because I was his mom; funny that no one else voted for me; and funny that it was a train wreck and I didn't even know it!
To my defense, they had some really cool lessons - including small 4-wheelers that the kids got to drive on a track in the gym! How's 'color' ever going to compete with that?!
I volunteered to teach 2 rotations to 2 2nd grade classes. The rotations lasted 40 minutes each and I got assigned the topic of 'color'. I read the lesson plan and it seemed simple enough so I didn't put much effort into it. Tyler's class was first and we went through the lesson plan. Then I repeated the same thing for the second class. All in all I thought it went fine - certainly not a homerun of a lesson, but not a train wreck either.
That afternoon Tyler came home and we were talking about Science Day. He was telling me about the different classes they went to and then he told me that at the end of the day his teacher let each kid vote for their two favorite classes. He told me that he voted for mine with his first vote, and he was pretty proud that he'd used his voting power to vote for mine. So then I asked, and I shouldn't have, who else voted for mine. "No one". "No one else voted for me with their first vote?!" "No Mom, and no one voted for you with their second vote either. But I did Mom. I voted for you because you're my Mom." So many funny things: funny that Tyler voted for me because I was his mom; funny that no one else voted for me; and funny that it was a train wreck and I didn't even know it!
To my defense, they had some really cool lessons - including small 4-wheelers that the kids got to drive on a track in the gym! How's 'color' ever going to compete with that?!
Jokes with Tyler
Convo with Tyler today:
Tyler: Mom, do you want to hear a joke?
Me: Sure
Tyler: ok, the bus driver told us this. Why is the clock in the cafeteria always slow?
Me: I don't know. Why?
Tyler: Because it's always 4 seconds slow.
Me: I don't get it.
Tyler: Me either.
We did ultimately figure it out:
Why is the cafeteria always slow?
Because it goes back 4 seconds
As a side note, Tyler and Emmy have the best bus driver. She gives them a riddle every morning on the way to school and then on the way home she asks them if anyone solved it. If someone knows the answer they get a piece of candy. I think it's cute. During the winter though she couldn't do riddles because she had to concentrate on the road - safety first!
Tyler: Mom, do you want to hear a joke?
Me: Sure
Tyler: ok, the bus driver told us this. Why is the clock in the cafeteria always slow?
Me: I don't know. Why?
Tyler: Because it's always 4 seconds slow.
Me: I don't get it.
Tyler: Me either.
We did ultimately figure it out:
Why is the cafeteria always slow?
Because it goes back 4 seconds
As a side note, Tyler and Emmy have the best bus driver. She gives them a riddle every morning on the way to school and then on the way home she asks them if anyone solved it. If someone knows the answer they get a piece of candy. I think it's cute. During the winter though she couldn't do riddles because she had to concentrate on the road - safety first!
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