Ok, so apparently NO ONE wanted to guess at Brayan's sentence, so I will just tell you. The literally translation was:
"Mom, sorry night night car."
What he meant was "I'm sorry mom for falling asleep in the car."
He was apologizing to me and it was so stinkin' cute! :)
He says "beep beep" for car and the crazy thing about that is that Caedmon called them the exact same thing! But Caedmon stopped calling them that before Brayan was old enough to actually pick it up so where they got that, I have no idea!
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And about the deodorant....I still like it!! I purposely didn't shower for a couple days to try it out and even went to the gym and worked out during that time and NOTHING! So I'd say if it keeps this up, it's a keeper!!
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I've pretty much figured out my favorite thing to do while working out!....listen to Dave Ramsey! He's got an app on the iphone which has different calls from his show highlighted and you can listen to them. I just turn it on, plug in my headphones and away I go!
And it seemed like there was a few other things I wanted to say, but I can't think of them right now! So i'm going to put the computer away and snuggle up with my honey and watch a movie! G'night!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
can you guess?
Do you think you can correctly tell me what Brayan was telling me when he said this..???
"Mom, saw-yee nah-nigh beep beep."
I understood him immediately because obviously I know his 'language' but just curious to see if anyone else could guess what he was saying!?
Answer to come shortly! :)
"Mom, saw-yee nah-nigh beep beep."
I understood him immediately because obviously I know his 'language' but just curious to see if anyone else could guess what he was saying!?
Answer to come shortly! :)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
deodorant.
I made deodorant today!!! Yes, you read that right...deodorant! And I used it today and so far I like it! There was a heat index of 106 today and I was out in it several times and I don't even stink! :) Quite awhile ago I read this post about natural deodorant and thought I would give it a try after reading all the comments people wrote about how well it worked and how wonderful it was. And get this...it has only 3 ingredients in it!! And NO chemicals, NO harmful anything! Actually, you can eat this if you want! Here's how it works:
1/4 cup arrowroot powder (the heathly equivalent to cornstarch)
1/4 cup baking soda
6 Tablesoons coconut oil
That's it!
Mix the arrowroot and baking soda together and then add the coconut oil until it becomes a solid paste. You can add more arrowroot if you need it thicker or more oil if you need it thinner.
Then you can add it to a short wide-mouth jar and apply it with your fingers or put it into your old deodorant container and use it like that!
If you go with this option, as I did, you'll want to keep it in the fridge (esp in the summer) though since coconut oil has a melting temp of 76 degrees. But once it hits your skin, even right out of the fridge, it will slide on smooth.
Give it a try!
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Ariella took the ponies out of her while she was taking a nap. This is how she looked when I got her out of bed :)
And then she took them out again while she was eating supper and started getting antsy to get out and wanted her bib off. This is what she looked like then...
Then I got her to smile.
(sorry the pics are so grainy...for the last month or so I have only been able to use my iphone to take pics as our camera has gone ka-put!...and we haven't bought a new one yet.)
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During school today, I gave Caedmon copies of the math work I did with Tiernan yesterday. Since Tiernan knew the directions because we had done it yesterday, I told him he could be the teacher to Caedmon and explain to him what to do. It was so cute having Tiernan lead Caedmon like that! And they both did a great job!
1/4 cup arrowroot powder (the heathly equivalent to cornstarch)
1/4 cup baking soda
6 Tablesoons coconut oil
That's it!
Mix the arrowroot and baking soda together and then add the coconut oil until it becomes a solid paste. You can add more arrowroot if you need it thicker or more oil if you need it thinner.
Then you can add it to a short wide-mouth jar and apply it with your fingers or put it into your old deodorant container and use it like that!
If you go with this option, as I did, you'll want to keep it in the fridge (esp in the summer) though since coconut oil has a melting temp of 76 degrees. But once it hits your skin, even right out of the fridge, it will slide on smooth.
Give it a try!
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Ariella took the ponies out of her while she was taking a nap. This is how she looked when I got her out of bed :)
And then she took them out again while she was eating supper and started getting antsy to get out and wanted her bib off. This is what she looked like then...
Then I got her to smile.
(sorry the pics are so grainy...for the last month or so I have only been able to use my iphone to take pics as our camera has gone ka-put!...and we haven't bought a new one yet.)
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During school today, I gave Caedmon copies of the math work I did with Tiernan yesterday. Since Tiernan knew the directions because we had done it yesterday, I told him he could be the teacher to Caedmon and explain to him what to do. It was so cute having Tiernan lead Caedmon like that! And they both did a great job!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
curtains
A couple weeks ago our blinds by our table came unscrewed from the wall on one side and instead of screwing it back in, we decided to take them down. Why? Well because where they had it originally screwed in was right in the way of the seat being able to come up for the storage that's under the benches. Nathan at one point said "get someone to come out here and put in another blind" Yeah right! Do you know how much they'd charge to come out to us to do that?! There's got to be a better way. And I found it! I was just going to make one! While on my way to Wal-mart to check out all 6 pieces of fabric they have, I made a quick stop at the tiny thrift store in town (along with all of the kiddos who can hardly all fit into the store) and I happen to find JUST what I was looking for!! Instead of fabric, I found 2 twins sheets, not even from the same set but matching that I bought for $3/ea and decided they'd work perfect! I brought them home, called mom to ask her how in the world I measure to make curtains and I went to work! A few hours later I had them hanging up with a tension rod, and I think they turned out pretty darn good if I do say so myself! And all for $6! And it even matches...double bonus!
Here is the pic I blogged about before about asking who else gets to make a cool bed out of their dining room table to watch movies on?!
And, by the way, the 2nd day of school went good as well! We did school in the afternoon today while 1/2 of the kids slept (kid #2 and #4) because we went to the gym in the morning. Love the flexibility! Tiernan is rockin' at it and he is finishing all his work with no problems, especially flyin' through math and numbers! Way to go Biggie!
AND it was actually BELOW 90 degrees today!! Making it to only the mid-80s, it felt like a down-right cold snap! I even heard Caedmon exclaim when he walked outside this morning "oh, it's willy code out here!" :) I wouldn't go THAT far Caedmon...
Here is the pic I blogged about before about asking who else gets to make a cool bed out of their dining room table to watch movies on?!
And, by the way, the 2nd day of school went good as well! We did school in the afternoon today while 1/2 of the kids slept (kid #2 and #4) because we went to the gym in the morning. Love the flexibility! Tiernan is rockin' at it and he is finishing all his work with no problems, especially flyin' through math and numbers! Way to go Biggie!
AND it was actually BELOW 90 degrees today!! Making it to only the mid-80s, it felt like a down-right cold snap! I even heard Caedmon exclaim when he walked outside this morning "oh, it's willy code out here!" :) I wouldn't go THAT far Caedmon...
Monday, July 26, 2010
Not Me, Beach w/ a great idea, & First day of Kindergarten!!!
Here are my "Not Me"s for the week!
Living in a camper does not take some adjusting and you don't find out some different ways of doing things, especially when it shakes and moves a lot. For example, I did not find myself starring at the clothes in my closet in the morning to see if they were moving. And if they were moving, that does not mean that my kids are up and out of bed.
In the same manner, I did not look at the towel hanging up in my kitchen to check to make sure that the washer was still running.
I also did not actually say the words "I'm cold" after getting out of the water at the beach when it was 100 degrees out!
And I also was not super excited when I bought a pair of pants yesterday in a size that I haven't bought in years and years and years and years... And those same pair of pants were not on sale at Goodwill, making them only $2. Nope!
(Not Me, Monday is a blog carnival created by MckMama.)
THE BEACH
We went to the beach yesterday. No better way to spend a 100 degree day! It was about 45 minutes from us and well worth the little drive to get there! We arrived around 10:30am when we realized that the beach didn't open until noon. We hung out around a picnic table in the shade and were able to eat our picnic lunch before the beach even opened! That worked out great though so we didn't have to worry about taking time out of swimming to eat sandwiches that would have probably gotten all full of sand anyway!
The boys had a blast and Nathan and I swam too!! And I was SO glad I came up with this SUPER idea!!....I brought along this iddy biddy pool I found at Wal-mart for $1.88 that I had lying around. I originally bought two of them to fill up with sand for the boys but we had only used one so far. So I brought the other one, blew it up while we were waiting, and let Ariella play in it while we swam in the lake! It worked out SOOO awesome! We didn't have to worry about her falling over in the water and drowning or anything and no exclamations that sounded like "Where's Ariella?!" We knew exactly where she was and was content playing in her little pool! Right before we were ready to go she did want to venture out into the lake so I took her out for a little while but it worked out so well that I would recommend that to anyone looking to occupy a little one at the beach!
After sitting in the water for awhile, she soaked up most of it in her diaper. I guess this gives a picture to the saying "Junk in your trunk"! Before I took it off, she would try to walk and would literally waddle or fall over. She even tipped over backwards when the wind blew! hehe :)
Naomi with the kids walking into the grocery store. It was so cute!
FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN!!
Well, I'm offically a "homeschooling momma"! I started Tiernan this morning with his first lesson in Kindergarten! It went great and we got everything accomplished that I set out to do! I was busy last night making copies out of the books for him to work on (since I want to keep the books for the other kids) and last week I got the schedule with which pages I want to work on out of which books, etc.
Here is what my week at a glance looks like:
Our toy cupboard got converted into my school cupboard!
And here was our day:
We did bible lesson and verse memory right away after breakfast with all the boys. During this we talked about the lesson, repeated the memory verse and did a little project. This took about 20 mins.
Then we went to phonics, letters and reading where we learned (reviewed) the letter A and E. This included a worksheet and a page to color. (The little boys went to play outside :)
Next up was writing. Tiernan practiced writing lower case a's and upper case A's.
Then on to numbers, math and shapes. We reviewed numbers 1-10 and he completed 4 worksheets that had various counting and number excercises.
We then learned about God's world during Science. We learned that George Washington was the 1st president during History and learned and colored pictures about police officers and laws and rules during Social Studies.
This completed our day! All this done before 9am! What will tomorrow hold?!
Living in a camper does not take some adjusting and you don't find out some different ways of doing things, especially when it shakes and moves a lot. For example, I did not find myself starring at the clothes in my closet in the morning to see if they were moving. And if they were moving, that does not mean that my kids are up and out of bed.
In the same manner, I did not look at the towel hanging up in my kitchen to check to make sure that the washer was still running.
I also did not actually say the words "I'm cold" after getting out of the water at the beach when it was 100 degrees out!
And I also was not super excited when I bought a pair of pants yesterday in a size that I haven't bought in years and years and years and years... And those same pair of pants were not on sale at Goodwill, making them only $2. Nope!
(Not Me, Monday is a blog carnival created by MckMama.)
THE BEACH
We went to the beach yesterday. No better way to spend a 100 degree day! It was about 45 minutes from us and well worth the little drive to get there! We arrived around 10:30am when we realized that the beach didn't open until noon. We hung out around a picnic table in the shade and were able to eat our picnic lunch before the beach even opened! That worked out great though so we didn't have to worry about taking time out of swimming to eat sandwiches that would have probably gotten all full of sand anyway!
The boys had a blast and Nathan and I swam too!! And I was SO glad I came up with this SUPER idea!!....I brought along this iddy biddy pool I found at Wal-mart for $1.88 that I had lying around. I originally bought two of them to fill up with sand for the boys but we had only used one so far. So I brought the other one, blew it up while we were waiting, and let Ariella play in it while we swam in the lake! It worked out SOOO awesome! We didn't have to worry about her falling over in the water and drowning or anything and no exclamations that sounded like "Where's Ariella?!" We knew exactly where she was and was content playing in her little pool! Right before we were ready to go she did want to venture out into the lake so I took her out for a little while but it worked out so well that I would recommend that to anyone looking to occupy a little one at the beach!
After sitting in the water for awhile, she soaked up most of it in her diaper. I guess this gives a picture to the saying "Junk in your trunk"! Before I took it off, she would try to walk and would literally waddle or fall over. She even tipped over backwards when the wind blew! hehe :)
Naomi with the kids walking into the grocery store. It was so cute!
FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN!!
Well, I'm offically a "homeschooling momma"! I started Tiernan this morning with his first lesson in Kindergarten! It went great and we got everything accomplished that I set out to do! I was busy last night making copies out of the books for him to work on (since I want to keep the books for the other kids) and last week I got the schedule with which pages I want to work on out of which books, etc.
Here is what my week at a glance looks like:
Our toy cupboard got converted into my school cupboard!
And here was our day:
We did bible lesson and verse memory right away after breakfast with all the boys. During this we talked about the lesson, repeated the memory verse and did a little project. This took about 20 mins.
Then we went to phonics, letters and reading where we learned (reviewed) the letter A and E. This included a worksheet and a page to color. (The little boys went to play outside :)
Next up was writing. Tiernan practiced writing lower case a's and upper case A's.
Then on to numbers, math and shapes. We reviewed numbers 1-10 and he completed 4 worksheets that had various counting and number excercises.
We then learned about God's world during Science. We learned that George Washington was the 1st president during History and learned and colored pictures about police officers and laws and rules during Social Studies.
This completed our day! All this done before 9am! What will tomorrow hold?!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
dog days of summer.
**First I just want to say that I am so excited about all the emails that I have been getting about budgets and questions! I LOVE it! Please keep them coming!**
Ah, yes....it's been HOT here! Last time I heard on the news, last year at the this time there were 12 days that were into the 90s, this year? 43!!! Yikes! A little hotter than 'normal'. But remember, we are used to 'record weather' following us where ever we move! In Iowa, it was record flooding; in Nebraska it was record snow; and now here in VA it's both record snow AND record heat, great!
Where is the only place to go (besides sitting inside with the a/c on) when it's so hot out?! To the pool of course!
We went with some new friends of ours. One of Nathan's co-workers families came to visit from Georgia and we got together almost every other day the whole 2-1/2 weeks that they were here! It was so much fun having another mom to hang out with and our kids got along so well! They had 2 girls, 6 and almost 3 and then Wendy is 8 months pregnant with their little boy!
It was almost weird how much Wendy and I were alike...we had the same taste in clothes, food, parenting, etc. We will for surely be life-long friends! I just can't wait til she visits again with that little baby of hers!
Here are some pictures of our time at the pool with them.
Ariella was getting tired and when Wendy lifted her up, she told Ariella that there was a baby in her tummy. Ariella layed her head right down on her tummy and fell asleep! How precious!
Ah, yes....it's been HOT here! Last time I heard on the news, last year at the this time there were 12 days that were into the 90s, this year? 43!!! Yikes! A little hotter than 'normal'. But remember, we are used to 'record weather' following us where ever we move! In Iowa, it was record flooding; in Nebraska it was record snow; and now here in VA it's both record snow AND record heat, great!
Where is the only place to go (besides sitting inside with the a/c on) when it's so hot out?! To the pool of course!
We went with some new friends of ours. One of Nathan's co-workers families came to visit from Georgia and we got together almost every other day the whole 2-1/2 weeks that they were here! It was so much fun having another mom to hang out with and our kids got along so well! They had 2 girls, 6 and almost 3 and then Wendy is 8 months pregnant with their little boy!
It was almost weird how much Wendy and I were alike...we had the same taste in clothes, food, parenting, etc. We will for surely be life-long friends! I just can't wait til she visits again with that little baby of hers!
Here are some pictures of our time at the pool with them.
Ariella was getting tired and when Wendy lifted her up, she told Ariella that there was a baby in her tummy. Ariella layed her head right down on her tummy and fell asleep! How precious!
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