tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15234112235833856242024-03-19T06:43:56.329-04:00A Sunny Slice of LifeTrying to see the sunny side of life..Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-40389452962866070862014-01-07T22:15:00.001-05:002014-01-07T22:15:29.181-05:00Snow Days!It's 10 pm and I've successfully showered and changed my pj's! Yes, you read that right,I changed my pj's. Such is the life on a snow day. In fact, we all bathed and changed our pj's this evening. I told John earlier we MUST get out of the house tomorrow! I've been indoors since early Sunday morning, when I fell down the steps.<div>
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Do you know how much concrete can hurt the back of the head! I now do! I have no idea that the front steps were covered in ice. We weren't expecting ice and snow for another 16 hours or so! Wheeler saw me fall, started hollering at John, and bless his heart, ran to get ice packs. We called the ER, they told us what to watch out for, told me to keep ice on it, and to take it easy. So I sat in the recliner with ice on the back of my head for the morning. Now. I'm sore! All over. And I keep finding random bruises. I'm sure there's a doozy of a bruise on the back of my head, though you can't see it for all the hair!</div>
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There's your randomness from me. I have no idea what we will do tomorrow, but we will do something!</div>
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If you're still snowed/iced over, watch those steps!</div>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-90988619197683221742014-01-06T13:42:00.002-05:002014-01-06T13:42:50.280-05:00My One Word For The YearAs I've said in previous posts, I've just been down in the dumps lately. I've not really been able to pinpoint why, until lately. I've prayed and really thought about this, and I've realized that even though I've been praying for God's will over our family, I've not let Him be in control. As is our nature (and mine more so lately than in the past) I've tried to be in control. I've tried to make sure things went the way I thought God wanted them to go, instead of just letting Him take the reins.<br />
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I started really feeling this urge last week to <i><b>listen</b></i>. To just shut up and<i> <b>listen</b></i>!!! I wasn't sure what I was supposed to <b><i>listen</i></b> to but I decided I just needed to let things be, and <b><i>listen</i></b>.<br />
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I let there be silence in the truck as I was driving. I tried to shut out the distractions around the house (as much as you can with a five year old, a one year old, and a thirty-nine year old around.) I started reading some faith based blogs, especially those of some moms out there. I started looking up passages in the Bible. I turned the radio over to KLOVE. And I <b><i>listened</i></b>.<br />
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The first thing I heard was God telling me to give it ALL up. There is not one thing to give up, it's everything. I can't control it. I finally realized this on New Year's Day, in my classroom (I had left a HUGE mess the last day) with Mandisa Radio playing on Pandora. There in the middle of my classroom, I worshipped! I heard God tell me to give up control. I felt such a huge wave of relief! Like there was a burden lifted from me that was not only weighing me down, but pushing me into the ground!<br />
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Through reading of blogs this week, I came across My One Word. Instead of resolutions for the year (which most of us break by the end of the first week of the new year), how about picking a word and live that word for the year. Have you tried to come up with <b><i><u>ONE WORD</u></i></b>! There are many good words I mulled over. Trust- because I need to trust in Him more. Faith- because I need to have the faith in Him that will move mountains. Grow- because I need to grow in so many facets of my life. Focus- because I've allowed my life to be focused on the wrong things. Intentional- because I need to be intentional in my walk each day. See, it's hard!<br />
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I need to surrender to Him, The Almighty! The One who is in control! I need to let go of control, not just talk about letting go.<br />
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I went ahead and bought the book My One Word and read it in two days (for those of you who know me, you know reading anything in two days is an accomplishment for me!) It put into perspective this whole One Word concept. I didn't want to do this and then be following some cult or something. <br />
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So for this year I am going to <i><b><u><span style="color: purple;">surrender</span></u></b></i>!<br />
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I want to search and seek. He will listen. Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-69940356159398251862014-01-05T00:49:00.000-05:002014-01-05T00:49:05.640-05:00Catching Up- Christmas in Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-15510039700128414322014-01-03T13:33:00.000-05:002014-01-03T13:33:19.828-05:00Catching Up-December FunEvery weekend in December was full! The first weekend we celebrated the first birthday of our baby girl. The second weekend, my sister and I had a cookie swap. Oh the yumminess!<br />
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The next week was busy. It was the last week of school before break, so I was exhausted from that. Our friends, the Friends came in town. We met up with them one night for a trolley ride through Gatlinburg to see the lights.</div>
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On Friday night our little guy tested up for his yellow belt! He doesn't look it in this picture, but he really was excited!!!</div>
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And both kiddos were in the Christmas program at church!</div>
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-9504669104987803292014-01-02T16:24:00.001-05:002014-01-02T16:24:50.715-05:00Catching Up- It's December- Caroline's BirthdayActually, I am going to divide December up a bit. <br />
<br />We began the month celebrating this precious girl's birthday. I got up that morning feeling so blessed and thankful, considering what all happened surrounding her birth. (You can read about that <a href="http://asunnysliceoflife.blogspot.com/2013/01/baby-oh-baby.html" target="_blank">here</a>).<br />
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I knew I wanted to do a winter wonderland theme for her birthday, because, well, I figure I should do what I want while she can't tell me what we are doing! I really didn't do that much, though, due to the fact that time really ran out on me!</div>
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The hot chocolate bar was definitely a hit. We had dark and white hot cocoa. The white cocoa I made by mixing six cups of whole milk, two cups of heavy cream, and a package of white chocolate chips. I heated on the stove until the chips melted, and it was wonderful! On the bar I had chocolate dipped candy canes, snowman marshmallows, Andes peppermint chips, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and whipped cream! </div>
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She was not really into smashing her cake. Right after she was born my aunt described her as dainty, that's how I would describe her treatment of the smash cake. In fact, I don't even think she got a really good bite of it. She just wasn't interested.</div>
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-88206340506450748552014-01-01T01:00:00.000-05:002014-01-01T09:36:42.075-05:00Catching Up- NovemberSo we're up to November on this first day of January! <br />
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The first part of the month was eventful, without being eventful. We stayed busy and the month flew by, but it wasn't anything picture-worthy. There was a lot of planning for a certain little girl's upcoming first birthday and Christmas.<br />
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We didn't get Dollywood passes this year so we took advantage of their Sevier County Days. It was pretty warm the day we went.<br />
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The day before Thanksgiving was a snow day for us. We were supposed to have half a day of school but it was called off, we had just enough snow to go out and make a muddy mess!!<br />
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That afternoon we decided to head up to Bass Pro to see Santa. Mom ended up in the Santa pic because baby girl was having nothing to do with Santa this year! Wheeler, who had been saying he was going to ask for an IPAD all along, asked Santa for........a reindeer!!!! Luckily, Santa said he'd try to bring a stuffed reindeer because he needed all his.</div>
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We celebrated Thanksgiving with our wonderful family. These are just a few pics.</div>
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My mom and her sister.<br />
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Making her shopping plan for Black Friday.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also, as I said a few days ago, I just wasn't into the holidays as I wanted to be. I tried. I knew we needed to see Santa so I insisted we go on that Wednesday. I knew we wouldn't be able to go to Dollywood to see the lights unless we went during Sevier County Days, so I insisted we go on that Saturday. I also knew the kids would enjoy these outings. I was constantly searching for a feeling, and not finding it. Don't get me wrong, I loved every second with my family and I cherish the memories we made, but I felt empty. And rushed. And pulled in so many directions, as all moms do. </span></div>
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So I was determined to make October fun! We waited out the first couple of weeks, because we knew there was a possibility John would be laid off, and if we could do things with Daddy then we would wait for him. Bless John's heart, that first weekend he was off I think I filled up!<br />
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At the beginning of the month it was beautiful out.<br />
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Ok, so I have been absolutely horrible at keeping this blog updated. After being so tired and sick throughout the pregnancy last year I wanted so badly to make it up to Wheeler by doing those fun family fall outings we usually do. We did quite a bit, however I just felt like I was going through the motions. Don't get me wrong, I loved being with my family, but I just didn't feel it this year, like I have in the past. This feeling has continued through the Christmas holidays. I have had to really do some self reflection and praying over the past couple of weeks. More about that later, though (maybe! If I make it back to the blog for that post!)<br />
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Anyway, I am rewinding the year, and playing catch up. September wasn't that eventful. John was still working weekends and I was working from home most weekends until at the end of the month I had a breakdown and decided that weekends were family time, I put in enough hours during the week!<br />
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We get a four day weekend for Labor Day, so Kelli and I took the boys to the zoo.<br />
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Wheeler had career day at school and on that particular day he decided he wanted to be a doctor. I think he's changed his mind about 50 times since then. Thank goodness he has a little bit of time to decide!</div>
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-53005964360892311422013-10-19T16:23:00.001-04:002013-10-19T16:23:20.615-04:00I'm Still AroundYes, it's been weellllll over a month since I last blogged, but can I just say this school year seems to be kicking my rear! I can't believe it's already the middle of October! So many little things are different this year (remember my "years" span August to August with the school year) and I just can't seem to get into a routine.<br />
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First, I had to change classrooms this past summer. I loved my old room. It was spacious and attached to a mini computer lab. Second, I lost the BEST teaching assistant in the world. While I love the assistants I have (first grade shares three) and they are FABULOUS!!!! Janice and I had built a bond and she could read my mind. Even one of my students piped up a few weeks ago and just randomly said "I sure miss Mrs. Janice."<br />
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-85606034697185723542013-08-25T07:11:00.002-04:002013-08-25T07:11:25.472-04:00The End of Summer CrazinessSo I was doing great all summer at keeping this little blog updated, and them bam! The end of summer hit. I did great at the beginning of summer making plans for all we were going to do. The last minute call to teach summer school in June didn't even throw me for a loop. However, August threw me! <br />
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Next year I know I need to plan better to get school stuff done before the end of summer. I started the school year ten kinds of behind!! I'm still behind (oh, wait, I'm pretty sure a teacher never actually catches up!) Throw into the mix the sickies for all of us, and I actually started the school year a little panicked.<br />
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It was a blessing in disguise that I found out in June I needed to change classrooms. With my awesome family's help, I accomplished that in only a day, and it only took about 6 more hours of me working to finish the set up completely. The boys' birthday party, which you can read about <a href="http://asunnysliceoflife.blogspot.com/2013/07/birthday-boys.html" target="_blank">here</a> seemed to be the end of summer for us in some ways. I think we did a few more things, I'd have to go back and look at pictures to see, but about a week later, I started trying to prepare. Then, on August 3, sister had a cold. Within a week, I had bronchitis, daddy had pneumonia, sister and a sinus infection, and brother also had a cold. That was not a fun week. Add in TRYING to work from home for me, daddy trying to finish two online classes, brother's actual birthday, and the fact that sister STILL wasn't sleeping through the night and her nights were getting worse, and I was a zombie. <br />
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<i>(And yes, the kids are calling each other brother and sister! Actually, it's most often Brother Bear and Sister Bear.)</i>Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-48698970436322651912013-08-02T07:32:00.000-04:002013-08-02T07:32:53.376-04:00Favorite Pins Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time for another link up with Cara Carroll at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The First Grade Parade</a>! I've been slacking again on Pinterest, but we've been having so much fun this summer that time is slipping away! I've really been hitting the back to school boards, though. We have adopted a new reading series this year, and I've got to get a move on with planning for it!<br />
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I pinned this idea by<a href="http://fabulousfish-stephanie.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> First Grade Fabulous Fish</a> to help students with vocabulary.<br />
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And in my quest to be healthier (notice I said quest, I'm definitely working on this!) I found this quinoa salad. I love quinoa and this looks delicious! From <a href="http://triplantstrong.blogspot.com/2012/05/california-quinoa-salad-whole-foods.html?m=1" target="_blank">Triplantstrong </a>I found a recipe for California Quinoa Salad.</div>
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Needless to say, after this summer, we are exhausted! But in an absolutely wonderful way. Sure, summer's not over yet, but I go back to work in two weeks. We are still working through the Summer Bucket List, but here is an update.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His first game of putt putt looked more like pool. He would push the ball.</td></tr>
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The summer isn't over just yet. We are still going to try to fit in a few more things off the Bucket List before August 14th, my first official day back to work. Time sure flies, though!Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-48971463814592817612013-07-29T14:05:00.001-04:002013-07-29T14:05:29.204-04:00Birthday Boys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weekend we celebrated birthdays. Jacob and Wheeler were born 15 days apart. Until this year we have had separate parties for them but decided to do a joint party this year, and the boys went for it. We asked them how they each wanted their cupcake decorated. Jacob wanted balloons and streamers and many other items. Wheeler wanted Spiderman. Kelli and I decided to make a big cupcake for each of the boys and serve cupcakes in lieu of cake.<br />
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Aunt Kelli brought the boys balloons. Wheeler's was Spiderman. Can you tell he loved it?</div>
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Mom's birthday falls between the boy's birthdays, so we made her a huge cupcake, too.<br />
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The kids started a game of Duck Duck Goose. This was on Wheeler's summer Bucket List.<br />
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-79116843575524752252013-07-24T07:37:00.000-04:002013-07-24T07:37:00.639-04:00Wordless WednesdayMore random summer pics.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love when Wheeler hollers at me from the next room: Wheeler- hey mom! Me- what bubby? Wheeler: I love you! {heart melts}</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love when Caroline snuggles up close as she's falling asleep.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love my little family.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love spending the day with my mom, aunt, and sister.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love hearing the thunder outside and seeing the lightning.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I've loved all the time Wheeler and I have spent together this summer. This has been a memorable summer for me, I hope it has been for Wheeler as well.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love that Caroline is about to take off crawling.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love all the things Wheeler knows. He's a little sponge!</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I love my husband, how he worries about our future, and is working hard to ensure the future is wonderful for us all.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I'm loving these Jamberry nail colors I've been looking at (yes, that ones a bit random considering the rest of this list!)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I'm feeling incredibly blessed.</i></span><br />
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It's time again to link up with Cara and<a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> The First Grade Parade</a> for favorite pins Friday. The state has been professionally developing me this week, so I've not been on Pinterest too much, but here are a few things I found.<br />
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I pinned a few ideas from the 25<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/clever-classroom-tips-for-elementary-school-teachers?sub=2384828_1379586" target="_blank"> Clever Classroom Tips article.</a><br />
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I definitely intend to put rubber bands on my hand sanitizers this year. This stuff is like crack to a 6 year old! If only I could do something like this to the tissues as well.<br />
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These <a href="http://www.toptenlook.com/2013/07/salted-caramel-apple-hand-pies.html" target="_blank">salted caramel apple hand pies</a> look yummy and I think Wheeler will like them.<br />
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Now it's off to McKay's and to start planning a little boy's 5th!!!! birthday party.<br />
<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-2017774212019057902013-07-17T07:36:00.000-04:002013-07-17T07:36:01.032-04:00Wordless WednesdayRandom summer pics.<br />
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I planned on making Caroline's baby food all along, as well. Life is getting in the way. I kept saying "oh when school is out, she will be six months old, I will have moe time." Ha! Have you been following along this summer? I have crammed this summer with so many fun activities, there has been no time for making food. We have improvised.<br />
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Back in June, we started with avocado. <br />
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About five minutes after she finished eating, it ALL came back up. We waited a couple of days and tried again, only this time, I just chunked it really small.<br />
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I put it on her tray, she played with it, but didn't try to put any in her mouth. I used a spoon and my finger to give her some. I was surprised at how she immediately began to gum it she she did so well mashing it with her gums. She loved it.</div>
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She loves her applesauce. But now that I put some oatmeal in it, she loves it even more!</div>
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In fact, I've yet to give her anything that she doesn't love. So far she's had peaches and sweet potato, in tiny chunks, and peas, as well as all of the above. We've been putting oatmeal in the applesauce and prunes for a little extra texture. She will now pick up the pieces, and at least aim for her mouth. She only hits her mouth about a third of the time.</div>
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I've tried not to stress. We've been having so much fun this summer that I have needed this to be easy. I am trying to decide what to do about food when school starts back next month. She won't be in full time care, but I want it to be easy on the sitter we are lining up for Mondays and Fridays. I have the ice cube trays and steamer ready to go if the urge to make and freeze some food hits me.</div>
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I'm linking up with Cara Carroll at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The First Grade Parade</a> again for Favorite Pins Friday.<br />
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First, the family loves this spaghettin bread from <a href="http://rhodesbread.com/blog/blog/braided-spaghetti-bread" target="_blank">Rhodes Bake n Serve Blog</a>. It's really good, easy, and makes a ton!!!<br />
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Another one from the blog <a href="http://smashedpeasandcarrots.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-bake-energy-bites-recipe.html" target="_blank">Smashed Peas and Carrots</a> I love is these no bake energy bites. This one has been around a while, but they are oh so good!</div>
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My mom is extremely crafty and talented, so I am all the time pinning things for her such as this cute <a href="http://www.sewmamasew.com/2011/07/1-2-3-sew-free-pattern-giveaway/" target="_blank">lunch sack</a> I know she could make.</div>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-53952441553078673092013-07-06T05:43:00.001-04:002013-07-06T05:43:41.467-04:00Bucket List UpdateWell, summer is in full swing, and we are checking things off our Bucket List weekly. Here's an update!<br />
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We didn't get any pictures at VBS but he went at the beginning of June and had a ball! He's still singing some of the songs he learned.<br />
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A few weeks ago we went to the park and made a new friend (checking two off at once!) E will be in K with Wheeler this year. His mom and I teach together and thought it would be nice to get the boys together this summer. We hope to do more with them before school starts next month.<br />
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We have gone strawberry and blackberry picking so far this summer with the cousins. After strawberry picking we hit the park for a picnic.</div>
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Swimming at Aunt Kelli's. We've been a couple of times already. Wheeler is around the pool like a fish and Caroline seems to love the water.</div>
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And this wasn't on our Bucket List, but I had the opportunity to teach summer school at the last minute and we had a Pre-K class. Wheeler was able to attend. He learned about the school, met several of the teachers, had lunch in the cafeteria, and learned some general rules along with having fun and meeting other upcoming Kindergarteners. This is how the ride home went most days!!!</div>
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I've decided to try a link up with Cara at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The First Grade Parade</a> for a Pinterest link up. I've actually been slacking on pinning things a little lately, but I've been doing/making/baking some pins lately.</div>
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With Wheeler I made all of his baby food (except for the prunes.) I am doing the same with Caroline, only a bit different. We held off until right at 6 months to start solids. I mashed her avocado the first night, and since then, I've just been cutting everything into tiny chunks and she does GREAT! Since school will be starting next month and I will have to send food to the sitter on Mondays and Fridays, I figured it was time to look into some other things....mixed foods, etc for her. One website I am looking at is <a href="http://fitnessista.com/2012/08/1-month-of-baby-food-1-hour-20/" target="_blank">The Fitnessista</a> </div>
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-27058246072913980902013-07-03T14:26:00.000-04:002013-07-03T14:27:03.160-04:00Random ThoughtsListening to Wheeler on Monday as he played by himself (which is a rarity, the boy DOES NOT like to play by himself,) I REALLY listened. He is so peculiar. Having never been an almost 5 year old boy myself, I wondered, do all little boys play like this, talk to themselves like this? He was playing with a mixture of army men, aliens, space ships, astronauts, and dinosaurs (gotta love his imagination!) They were all in space, somewhere. Everything seemed fine and cheerful, and then came the "your head is blasted off!" "Take that, you bad guys!" "Off with your heads!" "Ohh, here you are my pretty." He had engrossed himself into a little story line with them, and I loved it, but I wondered why all the violence. We try to keep him away from violent things on TV and in movies, but man, it's hard! Violence is everywhere. <br />
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245313237244145034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523411223583385624.post-13877205449653764032013-06-23T07:22:00.000-04:002013-06-23T07:23:04.658-04:00Spend, Save, ShareWheeler will be five years old soon and we decided it was time for him to begin to earn his keep! Just kidding! We did decide though that it's time he start learning about money. Teaching children about money; it's worth, how to count it, that you don't spend more than you make, etc, is so hard for kids to understand (and adults, too!) We want our children to learn to be responsible with money at an early age. Currently Wheeler thinks if I have some money in my purse I can buy something. Most kids think if mom or dad pull out that magic card they can buy something. <br />
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I researched the internet for some ideas on how to start on allowance with a four year old. I didn't want it called allowance, though, and I didn't want him to earn money for things he is expected to do around the house. I also wanted to incorporate Dave Ramsey and <a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu" target="_blank">Financial Peace </a>into it somehow. I looked into Financial Peace Jr. and I plan to get it, but I think Wheeler is a couple of years from that program. After a lot of thinking and researching, I came up with a plan.<br />
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Wheeler has jobs and responsibilities each week. His responsibilities include those things that he is expected to do each day. His jobs are those he gets paid for. John and I sat down after the kids went to bed one night and came up with this:<br />
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Wheeler's jobs each week are to empty the little trash cans into the kitchen trash twice a week, wipe the table off after each meal, help daddy with yard work such as pull weeds, pick up sticks before mowing, etc, dust the living room (well, the parts he can reach), clean off and sweep the front porch, and clean the window on the screen door (again, the part he can reach which coincidentally is the part that has all the fingerprints on it!) Each job has an amount he can earn each week associated with it. After he completes a job we check it off the chart above. All I did was type up everything and put it in a picture frame with plexiglass so we can use a dry erase marker to check off when he completes something. In total he has the <i>potential</i> to earn $5.00 per week.</div>
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Wheeler was so excited to start this. We talked it up a few days and made a big deal about how he would begin earning his own money. During the first week I did a lot of positive reinforcement (and reminding!) but also told him I wouldn't be reminding so much in the future since it was his job to do these things. Oh, and we call them jobs, not chores. I just don't like the way <i>chores</i> sounds. </div>
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He didn't get to help out dad with the yard work because of all the rain we had. He earned $4.00 this week. I counted it out to him as we talked about what he had done throughout the week.</div>
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This is where we put the money. We put 10% in our share container. He will be giving this at church in Sunday School each week. We are teaching him about tithing. He put 20% in Save. I haven't really decided how much each week should go here. I'm leaning toward a dollar of whatever he makes. This will just make it easy each week. The rest he put in his Spend container. We talked about how if you save this money from week to week you could buy something big,like a scooter, or you could spend it each week and just get something little.<br />
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Here he is getting paid the first time.<br />
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After doing this, we had to go to the store. He wanted to take his Spend money and I agreed. We talked about the fact he did not have to buy something and could save up for a big toy. Of course he's four and wasn't having any of that. We were a sight! He had about $7 because he put some change from his piggy bank into his spend money. This shopping trip was the first of many learning experiences for us both. He didn't understand why he didn't have enough money for the Imaginext Batman house. I tried to explain he could save for about a month and he would have enough money. He's four, though, and wanted that immediate gratification of having something. He finally decided on a butterfly net and saving some money. It took forever!!!! I was patient. Caroline was patient. There were a few people in the toy department that inquired about what we were doing and everyone was so supportive and a couple of people told me they wished they had started teaching their own kids about money at this age. I know it's going to be a long process, but it will be worth it.<br />
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As he gets older his jobs and responsibilities will change, and of course Caroline will grow into the jobs we have set up right now.<br />
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