Ohh And By The Way

I just realized until my “book” post, I hadn’t updated you guys since BEFORE Serenity started school! So just a little update:

Today was Serenity’s 100th day of school!!! They did a lot of creative 100’s activities. She has such a wonderful teacher, these past 100 days wouldn’t be the same without her. We have been very blessed to have Serenity in such a great school, with such a great teacher.

This picture is HORRIBLE quality but I don’t have time to find the original and I have decided it’s good enough haha. This is Serenity today: 100th day of school (she made the shirt in school the other day) 100 beads on her necklace and 100 dots on her shirt :)

Serenity knows all of the kids names in her class (and a little about each of them). One of her classmate has been battling Leukemia since he was about 18 months old, were all praying that this will be the last of the cancer when he is finished with this last round of treatments (in about a year and a half I believe). Both of the girls remind me every night that we need to pray for him, if you could pray for him as well that would be great. :)

Serenity will be 6 this September and Destiny will be 3 in one month from now. Absolutely insane, I know. We are trying to decide between a Minnie Mouse or Cinderella themed birthday party for the little munchkin but her mind changes hourly, so we shall see.

I now have that piano I told you all about in THIS post, needs a little fixing up but I am so insanely excited to have not only a wonderful piece of my childhood but a pretty cool family heirloom as well. <3 I think it is safe to say, I am in love with that thing.

I FINALY started taking my GED tests! I have taken two out of five, hopefully I will finish fairly soon and get to cross that off my list. That’s pretty exciting. I’m not sure if there is any more to update you all on but if I remember anything worth while I will come back and let you know. :) Have a wonderful night!

Kayla

Some of My Favorite Children's Books and Such

I know this was supposed to be a sewing/craft blog BUT please do forgive me, I have found that I get rather bored posting about the same things over and over so I believe I will try something new.

Lately the girls and I have been to the library quite often (we try for once every week or so) and we have recently discovered a few “new” favorites.

Fairly new favorites:
A Giraffe and A Half / Shel Silverstein
Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep / Joyce Dunbar & Debi Gliori
I Love You This Much / Sue Buchanan

Not so new favorites:
The Magic Tree House (series) / Mary Pope Osborne
The Cat In The Hat / Dr Seuss (or really any book by him of course)
The BFG / Roald Dahl
Charlottes Web / E.B. White

Those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head anyway. I wish our library kept a list of all the books you’ve checked out, then I could tell you all of our favorites haha. We also have a couple favorite movies from the library though.

The Secret Of Moonacre is a huge favorite, about a moon princess and well, I shouldn’t spoil it for you ;) You’ll have to go find out for your self.

The Great Music Caper

Signing Time this is a GREAT series of videos that do a wonderful job at teaching children (and your self) American Sign Language. Now before you close this window and call me a KOOK, I promise you – This isn’t one of those boring “teach your self”/ “self help” videos that you want to turn off five seconds after you turn it on. Trust me, I probably have the shortest attention span ever in the history of the universe when it comes to learning something new. But this is one my kids absolutely love and I even find my self listening/signing along haha. My two year old knows sign language because of this show…. Ok, anyway, moving on now…

I love books, I absolutely love them and I hope that if nothing else I am able to share that love for books with my children. A book is a place where you can escape reality and be consumed by a world of wonder, a world so completely different than your own, and not only that but you can also choose which “world” you enter.

I am currently reading The Hobbit for the very first time ever (at 23 years old haha horrible right?) and so far I am loving it. I saw the movie that just came out first and that is what sparked my interest in the book, there will be three movies so of course they had to end it without a real ending and everyone was left “wondering” until whenever they decide to release the next one so that is why I picked up the book. Did you know right now my library has over a hundred holds on this book??? Insane, right??? I was just lucky enough to find it in the “lucky” section where there are books that aren’t allowed to be renewed and are only available for seven day loans haha. Speaking of which I believe it was due yesterday (but I am not done) I am a horrible person…

So, I thought I would share a few of our current “favorites” and now I think I will get back to that book before the library starts hating me ;) Until next time,

Kayla