We’ve all been battling a little bug around here.  With the vog on overdrive last week and possibly a mix of something else, the boys and I have all been a little sniffly and sneezy lately.  Yesterday we stayed in for Mother’s Day. No church for us.  Thankfully though, our church offers a podcast version of the sermon, so I can still listen via iTunes :)  Jordan made me a super cute little vase and flowers in school.  One day last week he came home with blue hands and when I asked him what he was working on, he said, I was making blue flowers for you, but the blue went all over my hands. * awww, happy sigh *

Jalen made me a treasure box in school.  They painted and added gemstones to the top.  He filled it with gold coins (they are studying Treasure Island in school) and a kit kat (his favorite candy) and a bag of arare (one of my favorite snacks).  *aww, happy sigh, again*

I got a card in the mail last week or the week before from Troy. :)  A big surprise from my pal FabuLisa and her daughter Savannah.  They stopped by in the afternoon to bring me a gorgeous flowering plant (kalanchoes, so pretty!). and a bag of bite sized cookies too! :)

I’ve been continuing my research on the homeschool front.  I picked up a few kindle books on how to choose your curriculum and styles of homeschooling and I’m pretty excited.  I hear that Hawaii is a homeschool friendly state.  I am going to file a form with the local school to let them know we’re homeschooling.  We have to show our accomplishments and Jalen has to participate in testing, either with the local school (for free) or by private tester (at our cost).  Not decided which way we’ll go on that yet.  There are local homeschool groups here that I am looking forward to meeting with and a conference next month.  I am very excited about our prospects.  Although taking on their schooling is a great responsibility, really, so is parenting.

We are winding down in our current schools, Jordan has 2 more weeks and Jalen has 3 more weeks.  Because I am a SAHM, I get to go to most field trips and class activities.  I am at the school with my camera quite a bit and like to share my pictures with other parents.  So for the end of the year, I am compiling pictures on DVDs and giving them out to fellow parents.  I’ve created a tutorial on how to create personalized cd envelopes over at DHD: tutorial. I created this cd envelope template.  It *just* fits on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.  I have a .jpg and a .gsd if you’d like it: cdenvelope

This past week I got to work with a few cute items from two peas.  Click on the titles for full credits:

Glass Bottomed Boat

journaling: Jordan’s Preschool class took a field trip to the Glass Bottomed Boat in Kaneohe Bay.  It was a beautiful day, bright sun and calm seas.  The guide told us about different types of coral and fish that we might see.  We looked through the Plexiglas windows in the bottom of the boat.  We also had the opportunity to feed the fish some bread crumbs.   We also saw a few sea turtles.  It was a beautiful trip.  No one got sick, no one got hurt and no one fell overboard.  Success! April 2010

speedy

journaling: Jordan learned how to ride his tricycle like a pro! He loves to zoom down the sidewalk! (this is a 2 year old picture)

I was excited to see my fish face layout in the Club Creating Keepsakes Blog last week too! :)

Also, have you been keeping up with the posts over at tattered angels? The educators are celebrating all month long with special blog posts:
Last week’s participants:

1st- Liz Hicks Fusing Fabric Flowers

4th- Joscelyne Cutchens Recycled Instax Frame

5th- Tammy Tutterow Custom Colored Book Binding

6th- Sally Lynn Macdonald Tattered Jewelry

8th- Candy Rosenberg Tattered Techniques on Canvas

This week’s participants:
10th- Cheryl Mcadam create your own transparency

11th- Stayce Dewid

15th- Tattered Angels

16th- Nathalie Kalbach

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