Ice and Snow

For preschool this week Peanut and I have been talking about snow and ice.  We’ve had snow since November but with the holidays and other seasonal things to talk about snow has been put off.  Besides, there isn’t much else to discuss in January in my opinion.  It’s sort of always been a blah month [...]

Making Day

I really should have spent my day sewing, and in my defense I did do a little handsewing that needed to be done, but from preschool on I ended up spending my day in the kitchen making stuff.

Since cream has been on sale at the grocery store recently I thought today we’d make butter [...]

Peanut-Made Christmas Decorations

A few times for preschool lately I’ve had Peanut make decorations for Christmas.  She seems to have liked it.

Right after Thanksgiving I helped her make a handprint wreath out of green construction paper and a paper plate with the middle cut out.  After gluing the handprints on she liked dipping her fingers in red [...]

Candy Making Photos

For preschool on Friday Peanut and I made peppermint bark.

Melting the chocolate.

Crushing the Peppermints – yes, Aliese, I think it would be even better with home-made candycanes!  Must try it!

Mixing it all together.  A few times Peanut got really excited about it and started stirring too fast and flipped some [...]

Happy Things

With all the worry and concern I’ve had for my dad I thought it might be nice to write down a few things that have made me happy the last few days in addition to the fact that my dad is still alive.

I put gel in Wingnut’s hair for the first time and spiked [...]