Tatting

I've been wanting to tat for a while, but the using an embroidery needle was a little painful. My MIL gave me a VISA gift card for my birthday that I spent half on my anniversary and half on tatting needles. I'm pretty excited. I got an assortment of sizes. I'm not sure when they'll show up.

I've been wanting to recreate a table runner that my Great Grandmother made that has tatting around it and now I'll be able to do that. YEA!!

Thanks Mom!! (Thanks to my Mom to!!! I bought a white shirt to go out in on my Anniversary and still have a little leftover...I'll probably buy the rest of the materials for my runner project). I'm so excited!

Still Snowing

The title says it all. Still snowing. We're going to try to get out today and do some last min. shopping, and get to fed-ex, but I don't know if we'll make it.

I thought you all would like to see what it looks like where we are. Now, keep in mind that we rarely get this much snow.





Church was canceled, so Super Dad took this opportunity to take the kids out and play. (They couldn't go out previously due to the flu). There was a 1/2" of ice over all the snow. So no snowman.



Here's Super Dad





Here's Super J. We can never find matching gloves at our house, thus one blue and one pink.




I told him to put on a coat, but he may be a little warm from the three pair of pants that he's wearing to keep dry.




She wishes we had a good climbing tree.



Super J came in a little earlier than everyone else due to cold hands.




He really likes hot Chocolate. Pure Joy!



Super S came in next. He's showing his cold hands. He has a special treat for you guys a little later so check back in, in a couple of hours or tomorrow.

Being Released

Last Sunday the Stake Pres. announced that the three wards in our building are going to be switched around. The Relief Society President from our ward is moving over to a different ward, which means I'll probably be released from my calling as first counselor (in charge of teachers and the Sunday lessons). I'm happy and sad about this. Happy 'cause I hate meetings, and calling people and stuff like that, and sad because I just got some really great training and learned what I was really supposed to be doing. Super Dad keeps telling me I haven't been released yet so I should stop worrying about it. (Yep, just call me a whiner).

So what about that drawing class? Haven't even looked into it.
So, how's that for all that whining I did a couple of weeks ago?

Now I'm off to finish the white elephant gifts for my MIL Christmas party.

Robot Business

Super A and Super S are thinking about going into a robot building business. This is how it works. You buy the accessories and then pay them how much it costs to build it. If it doesn't work they keep give you all your money back except a quarter or they build it until it works. And if you tell them how to build it they will build it for you are pay you for your robot plans.

-Told to me by Super A

Poems

Trees
In the spring leaves
Will bud with
Pretty flowers all in bloom.
A tree is pretty
In the spring.

It is summer. Leaves
Are green, fruits are
Nesting, bees
are buzzing tree to tree.

It is fall and leaves
are brown and
orange and red. Birds are
leaving from
from their nest.

Winter comes. The trees
are bare.
They are now sleeping
Hibernating
Waiting for the spring.


My Bike
My bike is red
It's tires are black.
I like to use it
It goes fast

My brother's bike
Is shiny blue.
He uses it
To go fast too.

My sister's bike
Is pink and white.
She likes to ride
In the light


The Grass
The grass is green
It goes woosh
And blows in the wind.
Then later
In the summer
The grass is brown.

Super S sat and wrote these poems at the dining room table, one morning this week, trying to stall starting on schoolwork. Pretty Good for just wasting time.

I want to know everything

Yesterday I taught a lesson on education and learning. I realized once again that I want to know how to do everything. I find it incredibly frustrating that I don''t have time to do it all. I find it frustrating that when I do have the time I am too exhausted to do anything. I see many women on the internet who are doing all the things I want to do and wonder how they can do it all? I am extremely jealous.

I've been studying how to be an effective teacher and one of the things I've learned is you should decide what you want your students to learn/feel/or do after the lesson. As a teacher, you must have a goal for your students and anything that does not support your goal should be nixed for ideas that will support your goal.

My first thought is to apply this principle, the principle of setting a goal and nixing anything that would not propel me towards my goal. Unfortunately, I live in a world where small people depend on me for almost everything. I am the center of their universe. My decisions affect their lives. Have I missed my chance for growth? Or is my growth intertwined with the growth of my children?

While it is true that my growth is intertwined in helping them grow and learn, I think that God expects us to keep learning about the world around us. He expects us to learn new skills that benefit not only us, but the community around us. I don't think the skills that we want to learn at the moment are always the skills that the Lord needs us to learn for the best benefit of ourselves or those around us. So, that leads me to this place. Right now I should focus on becoming a good teacher, to lead the teachers that I am responsible for and helping them to be the best teachers they can be.

I should stop pining over things I don't have time for, knowing that I will get back to those skills when the time is right. (Or should I try to fit them in 5 min. here 10 min. there?)

I do plan on taking a drawing class at a local community college in about a year and a half. I think I might have a spare evening then.