A few things about Avrah

"E-I-E-I-O Yes that's the book for me I hear it read aloud to me the E-I-E-I-O BIBLE!"-Avrah sung at the top of her lungs to the tune of B-I-B-L-E (not old MacDonald)

Avrah has learned to write her name at school. It is very cute, she writes it on everything. She makes her r's with a little curly underneath. Very girly.

She wrote her name on the back of one of my school workbooks and as you can see in the picture the second A the legs were a little close together, after she wrote it she looked up at me and giggled and whispered and pointed and said that A needs to go potty. Then she gave it a face and for some reason known only to her proceded to scribble on the rest of the letters.

Tonight we were having rotisserie chicken for dinner and Avrah was given a drumstick, for the rest of the dinner she proceded to talk in a deep voice and went on and on about being a caveman, must have had something to do with eating the chicken off the bone.

Walking in Daddy's shoes.

Daddy took Avrah to Krispy Kreme this morning for a new Valentine's Day ritual, where he takes his daughter out to breakfast the weekend of or around Valentine's.

I studied and took 2 history quizzes and one government test.

Usually I do 1 history quiz a week, I spend the week reading the chapter then do the open book quiz on it online on Saturday. Well this morning I realized I hadn't even cracked the book all week so I had to read the whole chapter and then after that I sat down to do the quiz and I opened the wrong weeks, I opened next weeks, but once you open it you have to take it so I took it, they give you an hour for a 10 question quiz. So even though I hadn't read that chapter yet I still got a 100 on it. It did take me 20 minutes though. After that I did the one that I had actually read the chapter for and did it in like 8 minutes.

The government test was a little bit harder it was 50 multiple choice questions and you have 50 minutes to answer them I made a 92 on it. I also have to turn in a two page essay, that is due Monday, I have about a page and a half done of it.

This came in during my studying to make my day.

Valentine Craft #3

My version of this.

Heart shaped crayon valentines.

First I collected a bunch of old broken crayons, but since I usually throw them away when I find them laying around the house I really didn’t have that many broken ones, but I did have an old box of crayons and 3 new boxes so I used the old box, even though they were still in pretty good shape.

Then I peeled them all, a helpful tip here is that if you score them down the side with a razor or knife then the wrapper comes off pretty effortlessly.

Once I had a bowl of crayons, I cut them all up into pieces. (Others have used a pencil sharpener or a grater; I just used my knife and cutting board)

Then we filled up the heart shaped ice cube trays

Put them in the oven at 250 for 12-14 min

Took them out

Let them cool

Then we hot glued them to a piece of card stock and wrote “You color my world.”

I think the kids liked them.



Oh and on a side note look what came in the mail today!

Valentine’s Day Craft 2

Rice krispies treat hearts on a stick.

I got this idea from my friend Jill too. She is so creative and I am such a thief.

Here is what I did.

Melt marshmallows and butter and then add some vanilla

Remove from heat and stir in rice krispies. I put them in a pan and let them cool a little while

Then dumped them on a sheet of wax paper, put another sheet on top of them and rolled them down a little bit thinner.

Then took a heart shaped cookie cutter and cut out hearts.

Put some red sprinkles on a plate

Put a stick in the treats and then pressed them into the sprinkles

I didn’t really liked the way it looked with the stick in it, and since I rolled them a little too thin they didn’t really stay on the stick very well so I just stacked them off center and put them in a baggie and tied a cute ribbon in a bow.

I know you guys probably know how to make rice krispies treats and really don’t need me taking you through it step by step. I just think it is funny and hopefully you will be amused by it also.

On a side note Jill’s looked much better than mine do, and I’m sorry for butchering your craft Jill.

Easy Valentines gifts

Remember how I told you that I did three valentine’s crafts yesterday? Well here is one of them. I’m not sure what it is called but all the kids’ teachers are getting them this year from us. It is basically just hot chocolate, fancied up. Now lest you think me really creative, I got this idea from my friend Jill, thanks Jill I think these turned out great.


Here is what I used to make them

Hot chocolate mix, Mini chocolate chips, Mini marshmallows, red sprinkles, cake decorating bags, and some red ribbon.

Very easy, just open cake decorating bag add other ingredients (I used two bags of hot chocolate in each one) and tie closed with ribbon. I don’t know if there are different sizes of cake decorating bags, I am sure that there are, because these were huge, but it still worked out fine and I just cut the excess off.

The finished product.

With a little tag that says “You warm my heart Valentine, from Avrah”

a warning

Josiah was a little on the small side when he was a baby. I was a little worried, and his dr. told me I could add in a bottle of formula, since I nursed him. I decided that I would give him a bottle after his night time feeding. This started when he was probably around 6 months, as he got older this changed from a bottle of formula, to a pediasure, to sippy cup of milk (first flavored then regular). Always right before bed, he usually would use this time to calm down and fall asleep. Josiah was a very busy child, he was crawling at 5 months and walking/running at 8 months, it was very nice to have something that would actually calm him down long enough to let him go to sleep. So even though I knew not to put a baby/child to bed with a milk cup, and he technically didn’t “go to bed” with it, he would have it on the couch and then we would take him to bed. We did this with him until he was 3. Why am I telling you all this? Because today he had to have oral surgery he had to get 5 caps and one tooth pulled. We are pretty sure that all the decay was because of the milk that sat on his teeth. None of the other children have any problems with their teeth. So if you are reading this and don’t know don’t let milk be the last thing your child has to drink before bed. Oh and side note he never did gain any extra weight after all that either, some kids are just small and we should just accept that and not try and change them.

a little loopy before his surgery

bottoms after

Top after.

Today Jeremy took Josiah to have his dental work done; they did it at a surgical center where they knocked him out so he didn’t feel a thing. I took Judah for his regular scheduled dental cleaning and check up. I did 3 different valentines crafts (more about that tomorrow) and had a TMOMs spa social; I got to get my nails done yeah!


*** Edited*** I guess I can't count. He got 6 caps not 5. 3 on top 3 on bottom.

Education or Environment

Judah -"Mom, you know that patch of trees behind our school? I think they are going to knock those down to build the new 4th and 5th grade center."


Josiah- "Oh no, that is bad for the environment."


Judah- "Bad for the environment, but good for our education."


Josiah- "What is an education?"


Judah- "I know, but I don't know how to tell you."


Josiah- "Mom, what's an education?"


Me- "It's what you are taught. If someone teaches you something they are educating you."


Judah- "That makes teachers educators."