(I began this post on the Final Friday of 2012) The final fragment post of 2012. Wowie wow wow.
Mrs.4444 the host of the Fragmented Friday posts gave me the bestest Christmas present over on her blog. She gave presents to just about everyone who reads her blog. The time and preparation it took to make the blog post, to give our all of the presents she gave, was probably enormous. Thank you, Mrs. 4444. And by the way, did you receive the Christmas card I mailed to your house? I had kept the return address label from when I won cake pops from you because I wanted to send a proper thank you but who knows why I never got around to sending thank yous. Nonetheless, thank you very much for the cake pops but most importantly, thank you for the gift that brought tears to my eyes.
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It is Wednesday and the kids go back to school on Thursday. They are running and playing and having such a great time playing with one another.
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We baked chocolate chip cookies today and does anyone wanna guess what we had for lunch today? Cookies and Mint Chocolate Milk.
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I'm completely in love with my brand new Kindle Fire HD. Does anyone have any suggestions for free apps? Apps that would include some type of learning for a very smart second grader and an equally smart kindergartener? All the kids want to play right now are the free versions of where's my water and angry birds. I want some educational apps. Something that they will enjoy.
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One of my new years resolutions is to clean out the pantry in the kitchen and keep it clean. I have partially succeeded with that goal because that bad boy is clean. Now I just have to keep it that way.
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We picked up Joey's new brace during this break. The name of the pattern is 'tornado' and he's quite pleased with the wild and bright colors on that thing. I'm just happy he's happy.
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Always one to be the very last on any bandwagon I visited the local library on the Kindle and checked out The Help. I read it and loved it and wish that it was mine to keep forever so I could read it again. But my library thing ended and well, that's that. I loved that book. Isabella was engrossed with me reading so much (once I start reading a book I can't put it down) so she asked if I could read some to her. I read to her and skipped over the 'n' words and others. Eventually she pointed to the 'n' word and asked why I said something else. I never said the actual word to her but explained about blacks and whites and how things used to be so different and it was very wrong and an extremely sad time. It was kinda hard talking about all of that with her. She handled it well and asked good questions and I feel that it was all handled well and I'm glad we had that conversation.
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If you haven't seen the sweet little video of Joey singing and dancing and putting on a great performance of "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town" then click on over to this and enjoy.
Have Fun Fragging This Year with Mrs 4444!!!
Mrs.4444 the host of the Fragmented Friday posts gave me the bestest Christmas present over on her blog. She gave presents to just about everyone who reads her blog. The time and preparation it took to make the blog post, to give our all of the presents she gave, was probably enormous. Thank you, Mrs. 4444. And by the way, did you receive the Christmas card I mailed to your house? I had kept the return address label from when I won cake pops from you because I wanted to send a proper thank you but who knows why I never got around to sending thank yous. Nonetheless, thank you very much for the cake pops but most importantly, thank you for the gift that brought tears to my eyes.
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It is Wednesday and the kids go back to school on Thursday. They are running and playing and having such a great time playing with one another.
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We baked chocolate chip cookies today and does anyone wanna guess what we had for lunch today? Cookies and Mint Chocolate Milk.
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I'm completely in love with my brand new Kindle Fire HD. Does anyone have any suggestions for free apps? Apps that would include some type of learning for a very smart second grader and an equally smart kindergartener? All the kids want to play right now are the free versions of where's my water and angry birds. I want some educational apps. Something that they will enjoy.
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One of my new years resolutions is to clean out the pantry in the kitchen and keep it clean. I have partially succeeded with that goal because that bad boy is clean. Now I just have to keep it that way.
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| It used to look like an explosion happened on each and every shelf. You couldn't even tell there were shelves. |
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We picked up Joey's new brace during this break. The name of the pattern is 'tornado' and he's quite pleased with the wild and bright colors on that thing. I'm just happy he's happy.
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| This gingerbread house was at the hospital where Joey receives care for his leg. The kids kept wanting to eat it. |
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Always one to be the very last on any bandwagon I visited the local library on the Kindle and checked out The Help. I read it and loved it and wish that it was mine to keep forever so I could read it again. But my library thing ended and well, that's that. I loved that book. Isabella was engrossed with me reading so much (once I start reading a book I can't put it down) so she asked if I could read some to her. I read to her and skipped over the 'n' words and others. Eventually she pointed to the 'n' word and asked why I said something else. I never said the actual word to her but explained about blacks and whites and how things used to be so different and it was very wrong and an extremely sad time. It was kinda hard talking about all of that with her. She handled it well and asked good questions and I feel that it was all handled well and I'm glad we had that conversation.
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If you haven't seen the sweet little video of Joey singing and dancing and putting on a great performance of "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town" then click on over to this and enjoy.
Have Fun Fragging This Year with Mrs 4444!!!
MINT chocolate milk? Im interested
ReplyDeleteHey girlfriend, did you remember to LINK this over at Mrs. 4444? 'Cause I went through all the linkies to read/leave comments and didn't find it there. FORTUNATELY I follow you so I found you on my dashboard reading list.
ReplyDeleteAngry birds and Where's my water are quite educational if you think about it. The first teaches physics, amped the next problem solving skills. Sara's thought process when thinking through a problem has improved greatly and I think it's cause of those games.
ReplyDeleteGreat list of fragments. Cookies and mint chocolate milk - I would love to stop for lunch.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear you had that conversation. I think knowing the history of race problems is one step to erasing it from our culture.