Fun "giggle" link

Rather than spam you all (I did a little of that already this morning - one a day is my cutoff), I thought I would provide you with a fun cute link. My sister sent me an email with these in it. Having young kids myself - I can believe that kids would write these. I could so see Annie writing (if she could write) one similar to the one about having God look at her new shoes. Don't you wish we all had their innocence and points of view?

Post-it Notes from Kids to God:
http://thirumurugan.blogspot.com/2007/02/funny-post-it-notes-for-god-from-kids.html

Have a great day!

Even Homeschoolers Have Snow Days!

We woke up this morning to 4-6 inches of new snow and it snowed pretty continuously until about 10am. For my friends in normally snowy climates - this isn't much, but take into consideration that here in Indiana we have had all of maybe 2 inches (if you stretch your measuring stick) this winter, 4-6 inches is a big deal. Our street wasn't plowed, the public schools are closed so I thought, "What the heck? Let's give the kids a snow day, too." My sister called this morning and when I told her I was giving the kids a snow day she responded, "What, so you can quill all day?" Okay, so the thin veil of "nice mom" was torn and my true intentions revealed. I did quill, but only this morning. You can see what I made at my other blog.

The good thing about snow - at least here in Central Indiana - is that when it comes, people freak out and close everything. My husband originally had a two hour delay for work and when he went in, found that he was among only about six or seven other people - the majority being management. So, the head honcho gave all those who had "braved" (yeah, tough elements out there - roll of eyes) the storm 8 hours of comp time and sent them all home. So, we get dad at home - the kids get to sled and try to make a snowman with our fairly dry snow and mom gets to quill while the baby takes a nap. Not such a bad thought to have a snow day - we should do this more often!

Down and Derby

Last night was the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Jaren's car did better this year than last year's pencil car - yes, he had a pencil shaped car - unfortunately, it hit the trash after the race and we didn't get a picture of it. We convinced him after his dismal finish to have a "real" car shape this year for the Pinewood Derby.

Below - Grant and Jaren are neck in neck - the tension in the air was thick - look at their faces! Who will win it? Who will win it? So close! (Honestly, Jaren may have won this one - I wasn't paying attention - my friend Janet took these shots for me - I was busy gabbing - I know, bad mom - next year, buddy)

There was a snag in the track and after several cars biting the dust the Derby "track crew" came out to repair the track. See how it takes three grown men and two boys monitoring the situation to ensure that it's done correctly? My personal opinion is that the tools were cool and that's why so many guys gathered to "help" out.

Here's another pit crew situation below - Jaren's personal pit crew consisting of Daddy (Mike) and of course it wouldn't be complete without Dallin - he was helping lubricate the wheels with his drool.

Notice below that Jaren's scout shirt is numberless? Yeah, he's been a scout for about 18 months now and I have yet to sew on his pack numbers. I do have the nifty plastic holder for his badges so the shirt can be passed on to Ammon when he enters the scouting program, though. I really need to get those numbers sewn on. Bad on me.

I'm really winning the mother of the year award, aren't I? ....not paying attention to the races, not sewing on the patches - on a positive note, however, I helped hand out cookies to everyone after the racing was done! Don't I score points for that? And even blogging about the derby so we can have a permanent record is a good thing, too - see, so I'm not so bad after all (as I pat myself on the back).