Eat: CAKE! What else?
Cake with lots of filling. Mmmmmm....
Cake to wish on. The best kind.
Speaking of cake. Have you ever tried Birthday Cake ice cream? It is cake batter flavored ice cream with blue frosting swirls and rainbow sprinkles. It is like my happy place - in ice cream form. I haven't figured out if this is a good or bad thing yet... Okay, yeah. Probably bad. But seriously. Birthday. Cake. Ice Cream. There is nothing but joy, even in the name.
Drink: Morning beverage routines make getting out of bed easier.
Current morning drink ritual. Iced coffee for me, iced fruit tea w/local honey (good for pollen allergies!) for my girl, and iced chai for my boy.
Seeing this photo makes me want an iced coffee big time, even though it is way past caffeine o'clock. I love that these cups even have reusable straws. I saw them and knew it was finally time to replace my kids' near decade old sippy cups that were sort a bit scary by now. Yes, we tried just normal cups around here, but the combo of my boy, my dog, and the constant spilling and shattering glass that goes with those two - non breakable w/lids just works better.
My little drink assembly corner. I want to be a barrista when I grow up. Oh! Have I ever talked about the way I make coffee? When my coffee maker died over a year ago, I
ordered this and never looked back. It is the presslike thing next to my teapot in the picture. I love it!
Be Merry: Merriment is rather subjective, no?
I mean, squirrels in a chimney? Well. They make me happy. However, my neighbor - probably not so merry. Another neighbor with squirrel issues. I never knew how fascinating and adorable a family of squirrels could be until my neighborhood became infested with them. Here is a link
to the last time we had squirrely neighbors. This time they made a home in neighbor #2's scary old chimney.
I completely missed the shot of the mom squirrel grabbing one of the BIG babies in her mouth and hauling it away. Here are the siblings all... "Ooooooo, she's gonna get it now. I told her not to get out of the chimney when mama wasn't here." I don't exactly know what was happening, but frustrated mama body language is understood across the species divide. I should give that mama squirrel some birthday cake ice cream. It helps.
Oh, and this picture makes me feel all warm/fuzzy inside too. Merry? Yeah, it fits. More than any ice cream on the planet can actually. I love watching them get absorbed in information.
I have found a love for geography along with my kids. We received this set in a packaged curriculum last year, and have since separated it and made it our own. We color in whatever places go along with our current song, and then point to each place as we sing it over and over throughout the week. Then we learn a bit about the places in the current song. It is fun. Easy. And completely works.
Example: My son was doodling on his notebook last winter and showed it to me. I glanced at it quickly, not really seeing and mumbled something lame, like 'nice' thinking it was a space battle or something. He then started to sing and point and I realized he had drawn a map of the middle east. A kid version that no one would know what it was without being told, but everything was in the right place. Well, I was pretty much sold after that.
So basically, I love, love, love this program. I might try more of their offerings as I think it is the music connection that roots it so far into the brain. Anyone know of a program that sets calculus to music? By the way, I'm raving out of my own true love for this set, the company has no clue I exist. Just a fan.
Okay, that is enough of my rambling on for the evening. Way past my bedtime. Not a lot of computer time lately, well. Not a lot of fun computer time lately is more accurate. I'm finishing up my last freelancing project for the year and it has a very tight deadline. Combine that with all the fall activities starting this week and WOW. Tired. Hence my longing for iced coffees and ice cream and all those good comfort objects.
Happy weekend everyone!