Quirky Mom, Quirky Family
Michael & Sara graduated from high school last night. I can’t even begin to tell them how proud I am of them. Did they work hard for it? Yes. But doesn’t everyone? Some work harder or more than others, but in the end, everyone met a base line of requirements to receive their diploma. I am not proud because of that. I am proud because of what they went through in the years before they got to walk across that stage. [Read more...]
For my foodies, we had jambalaya last night. It was amazing. I’ll post the recipe here and to Punky Moms in a little bit.
For the rest of you, school is about to end. Malachai got a citizenship award and perfect attendance, which pissed off Dorian who did get gold honor roll but not perfect attendance (he was all of 30 seconds late one morning. So was Mal, hence the irritation). Malachai’s G&T testing is this coming Monday, so we’ll see where that goes.
Eshiva “graduates” VPK on Wednesday night. She’s registered for K and will have her placement “exam” sometime in the summer to see if she knows her letters, numbers, can read, add, etc… I am kind of hoping she has the same teacher Mal had for K because she was awesome.
Dor goes into the gifted class again next year, mainly because he did awesome on his FCAT (he missed one in math and three in reading, go Dor!) if I understand correctly, but also based on his performance in class this year. From what I hear the teacher he will have is a good one as well. No clue who Malachai will have, as it will be primarily based on how he does on the test on Monday.
I totally had a whole awesome post I wanted to make but I am kind of wandering today.
I had my husband draw this for me sometime last year… the year before? I can’t remember. Anyway, I had him draw it because I was having trouble drawing a foot to look the right way and hey, he draws every day. More than that, I wanted it because for probably half my life now I’ve had people tell me how strong I am, how they don’t know if they could do “it” (whatever “it” it happens to be at the time) if “it” were happening to them, you know, you’ve heard it before. [Read more...]
First, my twitters psots will be once a week now. See, I have twitter feeding to my WordPress, because I use twitter to keep track of things. It’s just quicker. But then WordPress feeds over to LJ, which people hate. I can’t tell WP to feed to LJ except if it’s twitter, so the best you’re gonna get is a once a week twitter feed.
Second, and for my own records, I am still stumped on this whip shading thing. Lining = check. Solid = check. Watered down black to make greywash = check. Whipshading = fail. However, we have an entire huge collection of tattooing dvd’s and whatnot, so maybe one of them explains it in a way that I get? I kind of got it down, but I had to turn the power way down. While Michael said some artists do that for shading, I’d like to figure out how most of them do it without doing so.
Third, I must have these shoes. Someone should get them for me. Yes, I want them in yellow. My Olssons recently broke, and needed re-soling anyway. Was it a hint? A shove to buy these beauties? I don’t know. I have a check coming that will cover them though…
and forth, my new system is working! The kids are keeping up on their daily personal hygeine and daily chores and so am I! I haven’t stuck to it 100%, but my floor is swept, my counter is cleared, and my laundry is (still getting) done. I’ve done four loads in the past two days and it’s pretty much all put away. I cleared out five baskets of clean clothes. (Don’t think me a clothes horse, it was five different people worth of clothes) The compost is out (Michael took it out this morning), the trash goes out tonight, the children and bathed and dressed and fed and we’re getting it done quicker and earlier in the day! They even earned homework points today for starting the Hebrew summer work (and if they finish the book, they get a prize when Hebrew school starts up again, so they win all around on that one).
I made rice today, which turned out over starchy and mushy. I thought a rice maker = idiot proof rice? Apparently not. I made Stitch & Mickey shaped unigari (with fake crab inside and furikake outside), and a terrible krab roll for Fish to take to work. The rice was just wrong 
Also sent him a handful of fake crab, and some fruit and some soy and furikake on the side. I’ll figure out this bento thing. I just need some practice. I’ll also figure out the rice lol
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