But Mom, We Can Do ANYTHING If We Try.....

Don't you hate when your child throws your words back at you?!

It has been a lazy, long weekend in our household. I'm still trying to take it easy after the procedure I had done on Wednesday. On Sunday, my daughter asks if we can sew. Well, sewing with a 6 year old is not always an easy task. I had figured our next sewing project would be a pillowcase for her bed. I have several character print fabrics and figured it would be easy and something useful.

I pull out several pieces of fabric and DD picks out a white background Pokemon fabric that has yellow Pikachu's and some other pink Pokemon on it. I figure great - and we'll use a different color fabric - pink - for the cuff of the case.

Well, I start to get everything ready. Get "her" machine out and set up, I iron the fabric. She says she does not want to make a pillowcase. She wants to make a Pikachu. (side note: We took a mother daughter class last year and made a teddy bear out of flannel - sort of shaped more like a gingerbread man cookie). I tell her I don't have any yellow fabric. She does not want yellow fabric, she wants to use the white, print fabric. I tell her it would be really hard to cut it and make it look like Pikachu and, without yellow fabric, it really would not look like Pikachu.

"But Mom, We Can Do ANYTHING If We Try...."

With a heavy sigh, I ask her to draw a photo of what Pikachu would look like.
I then proceeded to cut the fabric.
DD sewed it - with very little guidance from the momma. We then stuffed it - using a chopstick to help push the fiberfill in.

And here is the finished result......

It was a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Things a 6 year old says....

Dog is barking because pizza guy is at the door.

DH (to dog): "Do you know how loud you are?!"

DD (who is 6): "Kaboomy Loud"

Another Sunday

And only relaxing really accomplished. It is hard to work all day, want to spend time with your child and get things done around the house. If something has to give, for me, then it's the house.
Life is to short to fret the dust.... And the clutter... And the Laundry....

So today is another Sunday - but I do have this week off of work. My company is VERY generous and gives us a half day on the day before Thanksgiving and then the entire Friday off too. It's great for "black friday" shopping!!

DD and I had sort of a dance session in the living room. I can't believe it but she knows the party dances from school - like the Macarena. In fact she knows them better then me. oh! I feel old! I haven't been dancing in YEARS and YEARS now and she's better than me.

We played a few different games and we just spent a little over an hour reading books. I am reading chapter books to her by Barbara Park about a character Junie B. Jones. These books are AWESOME! They make us both laugh.

well, off to eat something then I do have to run to get bread for tomorrow's peanut butter and jelly lunch! :)

Creativity Feels GOOD!

It feels good to have the "creativity" juices flowing.
I have been scrapping again. I got a few pages done at home and today, I took a vaca day from work and went to a crop at the local shop with a friend. It really does feel good to be creative.

Search for colors. Look at designs. Play with layouts. And when you are done, you have an heirloom to remember something special by.

I'm working on pictures from our DisneyWorld trip in December 2007. I'm working on the autographs - I'm taking them out of the autograph book and scrapping them onto 8x8 pages along with photos, stickers, etc.

I wish I could find more time to go to crops. It was great to be creative and have fun with new scrapping friends.

Just a Weekend.

What a weekend!
We had our first Soccer practice/scrimmage. DD did great! No attitude when she missed or did not run as fast as the others. When the "guest" coach (the actual soccer player from Europe - Oh WHAT AN ACCENT!) asked basic questions, guess who answered them all? Yes, my "shy" DD. LOL
From there we went directly to a birthday swimming b-day party/afternoon. Our friend had two parties actually - one for the school friends, one for the family. We caught only the very end of the school party and then stayed for the family one (even helped move stuff back home in the van).
Needless to say, this meant we left the house at 11 am and got home at 8 pm.

Today, we had the Softball League "banquet" -- which was really a picnic since they had 356 girls participating in the league. Hamburgs, hotdogs, macaroni salad, pasta salad, chips and watermelon. And they charged $15 per person. Luckily, players are free and as an assistant coach, I got the second "team" free ticket. DD did not know there was going to be trophies. I wanted to surprise her. Of course, this almost backfired....
She was still exhausted from yesterday. And that meant she was miserable this morning. The picnic/banquet started at 11 am. I also have coverage for work and was working on problems from about 7:30 am to 10:20 am. So me feeling we have to rush (shower and still get ready) and her overtired, well, it was a horrible scene. She didn't want to go because she got a new Leapster game yesterday and she was so into playing it this morning. I told her some of her teammates would be there but she didn't care. I know it was overtired and trying to overcontrol -- but still. I told her there was a surprise at the banquet. Told her perhaps a present. When she saw the table of trophies she was a bit in awe and when she ever got hers, she was ecstatic! The smile was ear to ear.

We came home and she went into the pool while dad work outside.
I needed alone time.
Quiet time.
I had all intentions of going in the pool in a bit. I went into the bedroom, turned on the a/c, cooled off and thought I'd watch a show and then go outside - but I fell asleep.
When I awoke, she was done swimming.

I feel like I did not get "rest" time this weekend. Perhaps next weekend.....

I've been tagged

Okay, a friend "TAGGED" me. That's ok. I don't usually like junk mails and all that stuff but I thought this is a bit different. It's guided me to today's BLOG. Made me stop to think about a few facts in my life.

Here is how TAGGING works --
The rules:
*Post the rules before you give the facts.
*Post eight random facts about yourself.
*At the end of your blog post, you need to tag 3 people and list their names and their BLOG addresses.
*Leave the people you tagged a comment on their blog, letting them know that they've been tagged.

Unfortunately, I only know 2 people with BLOGs and one of them sent this to me. So, unfortunately, I'm going to TAG her right back! :) I hope you like this idea and spread the concept to your friends.

Here are my 8 RANDOM facts:
1) I LOVE CHOCOLATE. (I bet you're surprised)
2) I met my husband thru a personal ad in the newspaper. We had talked for several hours on the phone and then met in person. The spark was so strong.
3) I wish I had not listened to a certain person in my life and instead, followed my dream for the career I really wanted – to be a teacher.
4) I had started a “playing card” collection. Thought it would be neat. But then I had no place to keep the cards. So I thought “what good is this?”.
5) I love making gifts for others (crochet, quilts, etc) but, when it is finished, I have extreme anxiety that they will be overly critical of it and not like it. And I also start to think the gift has little value so I run out at the last minute and buy a nice gift too. (BTW, I have rarely finished any craft that is for myself.)
6) I LOVE the following TV Shows: The Simpsons, Fraiser, Family Guy
7) The hardest thing I have had to do in my adult life was taking my cat of 16 years and having him put down when he became too sick (BTW, this happened on my birthday in 2002 – one month before my daughter was born).
8) I became an aunt at the age of 6 and was punished by my first grade teacher for telling lies in school. Spent the day in the corner.


AND NOW FOR THE TAGGING:

I tag Weebles right back. See her blog at: http://ifionlyknewbetter.blogspot.com/

And I tag Kiki - also known as Kim - whose blog is out in Bingaland.... http://bingaland.blogspot.com/

Best made plans.... are not....

Sometimes going with the flow is better.
I had envisioned a weekend of accomplishing things. Nothing on my list is done.
The long weekend is over. But it was a fun time.

DD didn't even want to go to the parade. She wanted to go to the big playground at the local park. We went for almost 2 hours. Stopped for coffee and donuts and went and ate there. I brought softball paper work to do. But she made some friends, played around in the sun, got great exercise.

We got home and she went on the computer while I finished the softball work and watched "Fraiser" on DVD (how I love that show!!). Then she was willing to watch "The Muppet Show" (another of my favs) but I think it was because she just wanted to share time with me.

We played outside yesterday - catch and a bit of soccer. We played Uno (it's actually "My First Uno with Pooh" - it is only about 50 cards and just a wild card and draw 2 - no draw 4, no skips). We played Uno more today -- and I swear she inherited my mother's ability to play the game!!! I have not mentioned strategy to her at all - but she had saved 3 wild cards for the end of one game to ensure she could just go right out!!

How I wish I had even more time to spend like this with my daughter. She'll only be this age once. The messy house can just wait.

Last night as she went to bed - mind you, her bedroom is not "finished". There are baskets of laundry and buckets of storage stuff on one half. But last nite, as she was going to bed, she said "I love my room". I think she meant she loves the "love" in the house. And that is the only thing that needs not be "messy"! The rest of the mess just doesn't matter.

WEBKINZ & Some things I love about my Daughter

Webkinz World -
My daughter had been given 4 as gifts over the past year and 1/2. She is only 5. I knew it would require a bit more reading than she can handle so I held off loggin her in. We finally did it last weekend. She is having a blast and now I find myself playing Solitaire in "Webkinz World" in order to earn her more Webkinz money!

But as I sit and watch her, I think "hey, I want to decorate a room." So I went and bought myself a Webkinz too. I have not logged me in yet - not sure what name to give myself in that arena. But since we do have more than one computer in the house, this will allow both of us to be on and we can "visit" each others houses.

Yes, I'm a kid at heart if you didn't know that already (gee, what would daughter think if she knew I had about 150 Beanie Babies up in the attic from before she was born???) I make sure I watch cartoons with my daughter. We watch all the disney movies together -- the TV has not been a baby sitter. We enjoy the show and discuss what is going on while we watch.

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Specific things I love about my daughter...
1) Her Laugh
2) Her Eyes
3) Her wanting to make you smile and have fun all the time
4) Her giving me 15 kisses tonite because I went back outside to retrieve the Webkinz bunny from the car.
5) When out of the blue she says "I love you mom".

Sunny, Mid-30's, 2 days after a few inches of Snow - so what do you do? GO SLEDDING!

…and for a 5 year old, you don’t need a very big hill. Sometimes being over 40 you forget how simple things can be so enjoyable. Watching a 5 year old on a small hill and when she stops says “That was the coolest” – well, it just makes you smile and forget the problems in your life.

That is – until the last run. As my daughter is walking back up the hill, another sled-er takes her out. Down she goes. No blood. No bumps. But, I don’t think I have mentioned this yet….my daughter is quite a Drama Queen. So we had our big scene going back to the car to drive home.

Days like today remind me how much you can learn from a 5-yr old.