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A week of goodness

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Trombone-Xmas02Hello my friends! Lots of great things have been happening this week, I wanted to celebrate some of them with you!

Both my sons have had some great success this week!

Liam, my 12 year old trombone playing 7th grader has begun to audition for all sorts of select music groups. The All State and All Southern CA groups (with 7 through 9th graders auditioning) proved to be too tough to get into this year…but he just made 1st chair in our All County Honors Band! We’re excited for him, because he worked really hard! (And has also learned the value of practicing scales each and every day – if you DON’T, you might mess up, and they weigh heavily on your scores!)

For those Mom’s of young kids out there – please know that they grow really fast…don’t blink or you’ll miss it!

Also, I got an email from Logan’s 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Adama earlier this week asking me to drop by the assembly this morning – luckily I could, so I could see him get a student of the month award! Here’s what She had to say about him:

Logan enjoys coming to school. He shares his knowlege with classmates and the teacher. He has mastered 27 math objectives for this trimester, learning the math concepts quickly. He enjoys science and learning in general. He has a positivie attitude toward school and aapproaches his assignments with confidence. Wow, was he excited to make his lofty AR [Accelerated Reader] goal already. Those 36 and 22 point value books reallt helped to meet 130% of his goal this week!

Start-Student

Other awesome things:

  1. My scarf I donated for Craft Hope for Haiti sold within minutes of being listed!
  2. I’ll be sponsoring 3 of my students in the fund raiser next week “700 miles to Haiti”.
  3. Yarn Harlot’s Doctor’s Without Borders fund raising efforts are up to 913,000…that’s over $313,000 since the quake in Haiti…and they’re not done counting!
  4. My commission quilt Larsen Window was completed, and the recipient loved it!

I officially have very little to do OUTSIDE the house this weekend…and I am going to spend LITTLE time in front of the computer and MUCH  MORE with my iron, rotary cutter and sewing machine!

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Christmas is over, plans commence

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Well, what a lovely Christmas we had – I hope you Things-We-Make-prizeall did too! 1st of all, Christmas came a little early in form of a wonderful package from Amy of  Things We Make, it was the prize for the Mod House Ornaments contest I won! Look:

  1. Craft, Inc. Business Planner
  2. Applique Your Way
  3. One Yard Wonders
  4. 4 fat quarters of awesome retro fabric
  5. Country Yarn Thread from Brother

What an awesome prize – thanks again Amy & Amy!

Next up, pix of some of the presents I sent off before Christmas: Flannerys-Gals

Hope I get some more (hint hint, Lisa & Shelly!) to show off!

Here are some highlights of my Christmas:

Fondue-09

Christmas-09Now…I’ve got to get focused on what I want to accomplish in the 2 weeks before classes start again…

Hope I get some more (hint hint, Lisa & Shelly!) to show off!Flannerys-Gals

Christmas Plans

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

So, I LOVE Christmas, and I USUALLY totally over commit myself, and set myself up for failure and exhaustion (is anyone surprised at this?) This year, I’m hoping to keep it fun and my plans realistic. (For example, in years past, I would have a gingerbread house party, making parts for 8-10 gingerbread houses and having friends over to decorate them. This year, I’m keeping it real and just making one or two with my boys).

All I Want For Christmas

I’m going to make a list of the stuff I really like to do with the kids, but it’s looking a little bare…do you have any fun family activities you’d like to share so I can make the list longer?

  1. Trim the tree
  2. Make new wreath
  3. Make new garland
  4. Make Christmas cookies
  5. Make gingerbread houses
  6. Watch The Grinch (original, none of this Jim Carrey stuff)
  7. Liam’s holiday concert
  8. Watch Rudolph
  9. Trombone Christmas Carols
  10. Christmas eve tradition: watch A Christmas Story

I’m learning how to import and add widgets to my blog…the 1st thing I’m tweaking is the category clouds. I love the 3-d one (that says “I’m Babbling About” at the top), but it requires flash to work – did you have any problems with it? Do you find it annoying?

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