ASL word of the day...Invite/Welcome

Invite v. To ask politely for the presence or participation of, as at a gathering of friends or a meeting.
Bekeh is inviting you to her party.
Same sign used for Welcome, Greet, Hire, Employ

• (the hand brings another to oneself) Bring the upturned right curved hand from in front of the right side of the body in toward the center of the waist,

Baby Headbands

 Headbands are easy and fun to make.

• Purchase stretch lace at a craft store or fabric store.
• Measure baby's head and cut stretch lace one inch smaller than head
• Overlap ends one inch and sew together
• Add fabric bows, silk flowers, buttons and bling with fabric glue or sew them on.

Homemade Bubble Solution

 Jeanne and Jess love to make BUBBLES

Homemade Bubble Solution

Stir together:
1/2 gallon of water
1/3 cup dish washing liquid
3 tablespoons glycerin (find at drugstores or craft stores)

Make a large batch and put into a large bucket or small inflatable pool for lots of big fun.
Make fun large wands using, heavy wire or old badminton rackets...take out the net (sometime you can find some at the dollar store),
Go outside and have FUN!!!

Angel

Save a place in your 

Garden

for Angels to dance

Memories

Grandma Marilyn & Grandma Nee' crafting time (Kaleb is in green)

When someone you love 

becomes a memory...

the memory becomes a treasure.

We will miss you!... Kalab Mitchell 1998-2011

ASL word of the day...Bicycle

bicycle n. A lightweight vehicle  with two wheels in tandem
RJ loves to ride his bicycle!

• (shows action of pedaling a bicycle) Move both S hands in alternating forward circles, palm facing down, in front of each side of the body.

Fun with chalk

Chalk is not just for inside fun...Take it outside and PLAY!!

Remember the days of Hopscotch? Make it a longer game by drawing 20 squares instead of the usual 10.

Have  a jumping contest and see how far each person can jump from a designated spot. Use different colored chalk to make each person's distance.

Draw a series of  O's in front of the garage door or wall and play Hit the Mark

from a designated spot, each person takes turns trying to hit each O with a tennis ball

When a player misses an O, it becomes the next persons turn

Joke of the week

Q: What did the paint say to the wall?

A: I've got you covered!

Bear Tales...The Nightingale

The Nightingale
ivy o eastwick

The Nightingale
made up a tune
about the foxgloves
and the moon.

She sang it high,
she sang it low!
it was as dreamful
and as slow
as summer moon light
on the lea...

She sang it three times
round to me.

Gardening Fun!

Freddy the Frog loves to be outside and garden 

Being outside had great health benefits, such as exposure to fresh air and sunlight. Studies show that we are happier, healthier , smarter and more self disciplined when we can be outdoors.

 

Gardening is a great workout! Turn gardening into play

 

Challenge your kids to a weeding contest: Have each child pick one type o weed and start pulling on the count of three. Then see who's collected the most when the allotted time ( such as 15 min) is up

 

Happy Independence Day

A star spangled day full of Flags and Streamers!

Thank you to all those who serve

or have served to bring 

FREEDOM to our country!

Inexpensive Travel Journal

Are you vacationing this year? Are you doing the "Stay Home" vacation? Either way...Here is a great way for the kids to journal the fun things your are doing this summer
Pick up a composition book for each of the kids.
You can make a book cover with fabric and add pockets or allow them to cover the front with pictures, stickers, paper and mod  podge for a one of a kind look

Let them buy postcards, keep the ticket stubs and brochures  from activities you  have done and at the end of the day, they can glue in the items they have collected and then journal about what they saw and did.

This is inexpensive memento that they will have for years to come. 

Off to Dallas

 Don't follow your Dreams. Chase them!

I am off and running "with the bulls"... Dallas here I come...to a trade show!
These bulls are Bronze Longhorn Sculptures at the Pioneer Plaza in Dallas.

3 Minute Bean Relay Game

3 minute Bean  Relay

Divide everyone into teams

• Place a bowl of dried beans at the starting line for each team
• Set a grocery paper bag 20 feet from each bowl

When the race begins

• The first person on each team uses a wooden spoon to scoop up beans from his teams bowl
• Race to dump the beans in to their team bag
• Hands off his spoon to the next player on their team
• Game continues until time is up
• The team with the most beans wins.

The Journey

The only journey is

the JOURNEY within.

I am off to Portland... See you Friday!

Love One Another

Love one another

but, make not a bond of Love

let it rather be

a moving Sea between 

The Shores of your souls

kahil gibran

asl word of the day....Thirsty

thristy adj. having a thirst: craving liquid

Related form: thirst n same sign used for parched

• (Indicates a dry throat) move the extended right index finger, palm facing in and finger pointing up, downward on the length of the neck, bending the finger down as it moves. 

Joke of the week

Q: What kind of pool can't you swim in?

A: A car pool!

Bear Tales...The Brown Bear

The Brown Bear
Mary Austin

Now the wild bees that hive in the rocks
are winding their horns, elfin shrill,
and hark, at the pine tree the woodpecker knocks, 
and the speckled grouse pipes on the hill.
Now the addler's dull brood wake to run,
Now the sap mount abundant and good.
And the brown bear has turned with his side to the sun
In his lair in the depth of the wood,
Old Honey Paw wakes in the wood. 


Oh a little more slumber says he
And a little more turning to sleep
But he feels the spring fervor that hurries the bee
And the hunger that makes the trout leap
So he amble by thicket and trail
So he noses the tender young shoots,
In the spring of the year at the sign of the quail
For sappy and succulent roots

Oh as still goes the wolf on his quest
As the spotted snake glides through the rocks
And the deer and the sheep count the lightest foot best
and slinking and sly trots the fox
But fleet-foot and light-foot will stay
and fawns by their mothers will quail
at the saplings that snap and the thickets that sway
When Hone-Paw takes to the trail
When hw shuffles and grunts on the trail


He has gathered the ground squirrel's hoard
He has rifles the store of the bees, 
He has caught the young trout at the shoals of the ford
And stripped the wild plums from the trees
So robbing the raging he goes
And the right to his pillage makes good
Til rou round out the year at the first of the snows
In his lair in the depths of the wood
Old Honey-Paw sleeps in the wood.

Banana Frozen Treat

Ready, Set,  Go! It's Banana Time!

This banana shake is yummy frozen treat.
Too thick? serve with a spoon

3 bananas ( the riper the sweeter)
2 tablespoons milk

Peel the bananas, cut them in half width-wise, wrap in plastic wrap and freeze until firm
Place the frozen banana in a blender, add the milk and puree until blended and creamy
Serve in small paper cups with small plastic spoons
makes 4 servings