1. Whitney learned about Claude Monet and Impressionism this week in her art class. She loves this class so much that she cried the week of Fall Break when it was canceled. I don't know why I never thought to put her in art classes before, signing her up was a total fluke because of a friend from church mentioning her son taking classes. What's wrong with me? By the way, she painted this with a Q-tip.
2. Now that Daylight Savings Time has ended that means the sun goes down during the hour I spend sitting in the car reading while Whitney is at her art class. I came well prepared with my headlight though and was able to see clearly while I read. I was just glad that the people who live in the house I park in front of didn't come out to investigate. I actually enjoy this hour of uninterrupted reading time and love the feeling of not having anything else I need to be doing.
3. I made Wimmer Truc and it was so good. I bought a baguette at Wal-mart of all places and it turned out to be sourdough (a very mild version) but Randy and I were very pleased with this easy, new dinner and will be adding this to our small repertoire.
4. This is embarrassing to admit, but I had to go online to learn how to cut a red pepper. It was my first time ever using one, so as I started to slice into it and saw its strange innards I ran to the computer to see if there were instructions...oh how I love YouTube!
Sidenote: I had placed the red pepper and an onion on the stove top after buying them, and when the kids came home from school and saw them they were totally confused and looked at them like they were some alien life form. Oh dear, we have really got to branch out around here.
5. I fear that helping Whitney with her 3rd grade math is going to put me in an early grave! I blame the fact that I moved so much as a child to my having poor math skills, but this is ridiculous. I can do her math, I'm just not good at explaining how to do it. They seem to be learning all kinds of different strategies at school, but my main strategy is the good ole "carry the one" or "borrow a one" and she looks at me like I'm crazy whenever I tell her that's what she needs to do. We're hosed! (This photo was taken at Great Clips while Landon was getting a haircut.)
6. The menagerie on Whitney's bed is out of control, but is so her. She always puts that creepy, white tiger at the end of the bed and I always turn it around during the day so that its freaky, blue eyes aren't watching me as I walk by the room; on this day she faced him the other way while making her bed...I found this funny.
7. I sent the kids outside to pick up the many apples that had fallen off our apple tree and it turned into an impromptu game of apple baseball. It was surprisingly fun and satisfying each time we whacked the guts out of one of those apples (these were all inedible apples by the way). We got apple bits all over us and left the backyard messier than it started, but it was a seriously fun half hour.
**How are your math skills?
Have you ever looked online
to learn how to do something?
Have you ever played apple baseball?
Are you more appalled by my public headlight wearing
or my lack of experience with red peppers?**
Comment Window Tidbit: Landon and Whitney both got haircuts this week and I must say I love it when their cuteness is restored. I wish that's all it took for me!
