This fun day!!
Yesterday, Elizabeth was able to meet her K12 teacher in person at the winter social 2012. In our area the children met up at the bowling alley. They had a coloring poster for each of them to color on and then had a drawing for 10 of the K12 string backpacks. Elizabeth was a lucky winner for the backpack.!!
Jacob didn't want to come with us...must be a 13 thing not to go bowling with your mom and siblings. Idk! But we did have fun! This bowling alley has the BEST fried mushrooms around and when I told Emily we were going she was so giddy about getting the mushrooms. I was smart this time and bought our drinks as a pitcher of soda otherwise I would have been paying more for refills. So we downed a pitcher of soda, two orders of fried mushrooms and a large pizza!
I bought the kids 3 games each because I figured the time will go by quickly and this would keep them busy. But it was hard to keep Elizabeth at our lane and she was fluttering around talking to other kids (which is fine!) and trying to keep the attention of her teacher. "Watch me", "Did you see that?" and "Can I go home with you"...which I feel makes a parent feel about an inch tall thinking we aren't doing something right that Elizabeth thinks her teacher can do better. While I am sure that is not the case but that's what it feels like anyhow.
About 10 minutes into the bowling session the lights turned off and cosmic bowling was ON like donkey kong! I know cheesy...but it sounded pretty good in my head to say that on here. Emily wore the perfect shirt for this occasion. Didn't plan for it to work out as good as it did...but it was awesome!
The other three have taken their holiday break a bit early. So much has been going on to get ready for Christmas. Some nice weather we have had with a few days of rain. We are still recovering from the Christmas play days where the kids took part as banner carrier, offering bearer and in the homeschool handbell choir. These days were proud mama, daddy, grandaddy and aunt days! We even had a friend of ours come with us on 2 nights of the performance. Everyone that took part in the play did a superb job!
If you would like to keep up with my cross stitching and learn about giveaways and how you can win for yourself or somebody else (great stocking stufferes right now!) Come check it out at: http://yougotmeinstitches.blogspot.com/ I am posting a new giveaway tonight, become a follower and you are in! No other strings attached...I promise!
And it wouldn't be a complete blog post if I didn't plug in Pampered Chef as well!
This month I will be organizing a Pampered Chef Order of the Month Club. Looking for groups of 12 who will commit to buying $20 in products + applicable taxes & shipping. Each month a new hostess of the group will have the honor of earning the free products and hostess gifts! Easy, right? If you are interested in this leave a comment and let me know.
Yesterday was a long day with appointments and shopping. But I came home to daddy and Jacob making potato chips in the deep fryer! He used the Simple Slicer from Pampered Chef and raved over how easy it was to do! "simple" would have been my word and the obvious word to use but I will take his "easy" anyhow! The Simple Slicer is only $30 in the catalog and it adjusts to 3 different thickness selections. See our potatoes?? Come visit me at pamperedchef.biz/rcj176
I don't know if anyone else does this...but we do! Since our insurance is all paid up from deductibles and OOP expenses we needed to get all equipment in before the 1st of the year and all the deductibles go back to ZerO!
