A list of nicknames...
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
April 04, 2014
February 24, 2014
Lists with Friends - List 7
Delaney LOVES Books, A List...
1. Don't Let the Pigeon Series
2. Tacky the Penguin Series
3. Puppy Place Series
4. The Critter Club
5. The Jellybeans
6. Yes Day!
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
February 12, 2014
Lists with Friends - List 6
Lists, literally...
Been a busy week, and keeping it real.
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
February 03, 2014
Paris
After lunch in the Jardin des Tuileries,
She asked in French for her boat...un bateau, s'il vous plait,
And insisted her brother help her guide it around the pond,
On a beautiful sunny Spring day in Paris,
And with the Louvre right there in the background,
This. This was really my favorite moment in life so far...
January 30, 2014
Lists with Friends - List 5
Top Ten Photos from London - March 2012*
*whoops, Top Ten turned into Top Sixteen, random number but so hard to choose favorites!
1. I think this was my favorite photo, I don't know - very hard to choose...but isn't this just so London?
2. Making no apologies for being American tourists. (Should we have coordinated our outfits for photos like this?) Delaney learned a lot about the Queen during this trip, including how to tell from the flag flying at Buckingham Palace whether she was home or not.
3. I love the Queen Elizabeth Gate at Hyde Park.
4. Riding the double decker tour bus is fun, and in heavy traffic allows plenty of time for photos.
5. The London 2012 Olympic countdown clock was at Trafalgar Square.
6. Our hotel, Marriott County Hall with The London Eye out back, and Big Ben across the River. What could be better?
7. Tower of London
8. Tower Bridge, my favorite! Taken from the back of the Thames River Cruise boat.
9. Bathtime is better in London, yes?
10. Mind the Gap!
11. Playing with giant bubbles along the Thames, Big Ben looming in the background...why can't every Tuesday afternoon be this?
12. The Olympic Rings in St Pancras Station were unexpected and so fun to see!
13. Big Ben, with Instagram filter...
14. These postcards, pretty tacky but why did I kind of want to buy all of them? Just took a picture instead.
15. Buckingham Palace, wouldn't it be amazing to get behind those gates?
16. Classic red phone booth, as seen from the top of the bus.
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
January 24, 2014
Lists with Friends - List 4
I reeeeeeally love Pinterest! We all do, I know. Recently someone pointed out that I have over 4,000 pins - which seemed kind of absurd until I really looked at them and really thought about HOW MUCH I use all the recipes and ideas. How much I love the quotes, and running into images of toys from my youth,and pinning everything else from diamond rings to rainboots!
1. Words, Quotes - for inspiration, card making, signs to hang in the house...
2. Holiday Printables - Delaney and I use these links multiple times a week, printing homework ideas, spelling word practice ideas, coloring pages...
3. Play! Yes, last Summer we used this idea and Delaney and the neighbor kids drew all over our trampoline with sidewalk chalk...they loved it!
4. Memories- I had this Barbie Van and I remember my parents letting me take it in the car for our weekend trips to the house in McCall...love!
Oh and this, this! Is one of the best things I have come across on Pinterest. The exact Disneyland ticket booklet that we used when I was a kid!
5. Humor - I am constantly sending random funny stuff I find on Pinterest to my friends and family...
6. Party Ideas! Delaney and I planned her 8th Birthday party, all from Pinterest ideas and it turned out so well!
7 And of course, recipes! This one below I pinned today and plan to make tomorrow! My recipe book is full of recipes pinned from different places - similar to my grandma's recipe book which included all kinds of scraps of recipes she had cut from the local paper.
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
January 17, 2014
Lists with Friends - List 3
A list and a story...
Seven Minutes on any Given Weekday Morning:
1. Passenger (second grader)
2. Driver (forty-two year old mama)
3. Music (her choice - I'll turn on the Dan Patrick radio show after I drop her off)
4. Foggy Morning
5. That Traffic Light (that will make you or break you)
6. Buddies (who wait for you every morning)
7. Crossing Guard (someone's grandpa)
8. Bags (and more bags, and always blue Gatorade)
Delaney loves school, she loves all the kids, all the teachers, EVERYONE! She's really friendly and outgoing and she always stops to chat or wave. The school is a really great one, it is an Arts magnet school, they have K-5 piano, music, and art each twice a week and all the subjects/lessons are taught with art sprinkled in. Perfect for Delaney!
She has been spoiled with great teachers. This year's teacher though, is just not quite gelling with Delaney like the others have. There have been hurt feelings, days she has cried her way into class. Really though more often than not she is perfectly fine each morning. It's been good hard lesson in: "life isn't always perfect and we have to learn to get along with all kinds of people." We have been talking a lot about not letting this person get us down and we have made it a point to "kill her with kindness." Delaney is a very generous person by nature. If the teacher is out of bleach wipes, Delaney will want to go to the store RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL and buy the biggest containers of bleach wipes to take the next day. And we do. They have a "Big Friday Cleanup" that Delaney looks forward to each week and a big part of that is bleach-wiping the classroom down! The kids love it - one Friday they were out of bleach wipes - Delaney reported that "Big Friday Clean Up just isn't the same without bleach wipes, Mom."
So Wednesday after school Delaney got in the car and wanted to go to Target. She said the classroom pencil sharpener had broken (one of the boys in class broke it the week before) and the teacher didn't have enough money to replace it right away. AND Delaney's job of the week is pencil sharpener. Also the teacher is out of gum (which she gives the kids for rewards). SO Delaney wanted to use her OWN MONEY to buy these things for her class. A little self serving no doubt because she had the coveted job of pencil sharpener.
So we went to Target, got the gum and the nicest, biggest pencil sharpener they had. The next day, Delaney was SO excited to surprise the teacher with it. After school I asked if her teacher was excited and she said she was BUT had instituted a new rule with the new sharpener: this would be for ADULT USE ONLY. So Delaney's job of pencil sharpener was eliminated. *Sigh* *Double Sigh*
This story is the perfect example of how second grade has gone with this teacher.
We will continue to do our best and look forward to third grade and maybe a teacher who jives with us a little more.
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
January 10, 2014
Flashback Friday - San Francisco
In November we went to San Francisco. Delaney has the month off for her school track break and it was a perfect time to sneak away for a week. I spent a lot time in San Francisco when I was young because my dad had an office there, and it has always been one of my favorite cities. I was excited to show Don and Delaney why I love it so much.
I *just* fished all this out of my wallet from our trip...love Delaney's note to us about what she wanted from room sevice for a 'snake' (snack)...and for the record YES we let her order the chocolate cake!
First photo from the parking garage at the Boise Airport, she's already excited about posing for the mamarazzi, isn't she??
Cable Car Love...
what's more fun than spying on a city?
Chinatown...
This is Goldwyns, he has been everywhere with us - from Muir Woods to the top of the Eiffel Tower...
sourdough for breakfast, lunch and dinner...yes?
of course we took her to the Full House house...
Lists with Friends - List 2
This week I...
1. Forgot my coat two mornings in a row. Brrrr.
2. Fit into the smallest jeans I own and gave all other larger pairs away.
3. Saw both Valentine AND Easter candy at Albertson's. Did not buy any. Don't worry, I will soon.
4. Saw Grudge Match with Don, it was really funny!
5. Donated/sold three bags of Delaney's clothes and shoes, six bags from Don's side of the closet and two bags from mine.
6. Read my husband the riot act on a certain subject when I had just minutes earlier promised myself I would not. Sorry Deej.
7. Took Delaney to her first Irish dance class, she was thriled. Both sets of my maternal great grandparents were born in Ireland, so its certainly in her blood.
8. Watched Delaney make a snowman, first she had ever made entirely herself! (except Don helped her lift the middle part on ha)
9. Stayed up past midnight every night.
10. Typed '2013' on almost every work document I created this week. Redo, redo, redo.
11. Uploaded my Christmas photos to Shutterfly to make a December Daily-ish photo book.
12. Was informed by Delaney that from now on she only wants to wear stretchie jeans, solid color tee shirts and infinity scarves.
What's a post without a picture, right?
Delaney wanted to join in on the list making this week, I asked her to make a list of things she loves...I love that she included herself and her birthday month of September :) And as you can see she's inherited my wanderlust!
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!
January 02, 2014
Lists with Friends - List 1
My first list of the year HAS TO BE the list of annoying spots in my house that need to be organized! I plan on tackling these annoying spots in my house by the end of January. It will be like 40 bags in 40 days. But it may involve more along the lines of 100 bags. Buy stock in Glad, people. I'm going to make it happen.
One (all right, maybe two) of my closets is one step away from being like Monica's secret closet on Friends:
Click Monica's Secret Closet youtube clip if you don't remember it!
I am exicted to use this blog once again, thanks to Elizabeth for the great project and motivation to make it happen! I was browsing the archives last night wondering why I stopped posting here. I think Instagram has something to do with it? I sure love reading all the little details of life that can be so easily forgotten!
I am sure I will include some of Delaney's handwritten lists here as well, she is a natural born listmaker and lover of all things pen and paper!
This post is part of a list-making project called Lists With Friends 2014. You know you love a good list!