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It is the weekend, and I took it off for vacation.  It is our eight year anniversary, and we took it easy all day long.  There was more goat simulator with Esme - lots of quests and watching youtubes to see what the specifics were.  The water unfroze to our bathtub, which made us all quite happy... but Grandma's water is still frozen at her house.

Mark gave me an indoor greenhouse (and I gave him some Amish peach butter, which he says is good), to start our tomatoes and peppers and other things in the next few weeks.  I've located seeds out of our collection that we will try for this year.

I'm looking through bits on Pinterest - so many things that look pretty but there really isn't anything we really 'need' at the moment.  I have a knit blanket I've been working slowly on... a quilt I put a patch on..  We bought some fabric the other day to make a big dog pillow for the couch.

.// Have tomorrow off, too - maybe there will be seed type things then.
Note: There was a very nice nap in the sunbeam through our window this afternoon.  I felt very like our large fluffy orange cat.  Esme said she felt blinded by the sunbeam so she didn't like the idea and kept playing computer -- but it was a little slice of lovely for me....

Thursday Friday

We had a field trip today - although it started out with a very bad attitude and we almost didn't go.  Grandma still needed her town run..and we made some adventures out of our other errands.

2015-1-9

9a    - making porrdige - boiling water, measuring
9.45a    - Kahn academy math
10.10a    - fractions
10.30a    - break

discussion of responsibilities, learning and planning

11     - ballet videos, terms, discussion
11:15     - break to try dancing out of sight

12:3p - Fabric store, exploring, discussion with Grandma
        Merchants Outlet Mall, money, discussion
1p - break

1:3p - Extension Office, 4H coordinator meeting
1:45p - Auto parts store, exploring
2:00p - break for lunch

3p - Tractor Supply store - exploring,
     asking questions about chickens
     money
3:3p - Helping Grandma unload groceries
       Discussion with Grandma, recap about adventures
       recap to Daddy about day (at home)
4p - done

She had some discussion before bed how she was so glad she got to plan her own schedule for the weekend.  And she was upset because she didn't get any gifts for our anniversary...which is tomorrow.  *sheesh*.. I told her she will get gifts when she gets married to someone someday if she gives one in return and decides to do that.  *grump ensued*
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2015-1-8

9a    - Reading aloud (Cake Soup), porridge pot
9.30a    - break

10a    - Indian diorama & discussion
10.30a    - reading aloud, many colored caps
11a        - break

12p    - Liberty's Kids (ep 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
2p    - music
2.30p    - done

Wednesday Antics

11a    - Reading aloud ("Go Dog Go")
11.25a    - math worksheet
11.30a    - break

12p    - Liberty's Kids (ep 26, 27)
12.45p    - Fractions math
1.15p    - reading aloud (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)
1.30p    - break

7p    - pbskids.org
7.30p    - break

8p    - math problems app (PlusMinusTimesDivide)
8.30p    - reading aloud (nursuery rhymes)

9p    - music
9.30p    - done
read some Spider Man teams up with Power Pack comic book with me

There was lots of whine today, and naps... we hope she's not coming down with something...
It is very very cold outside...temp dropping to 3 degrees... people at my plumbing shop were coming in all day long for things we've been out of since yesterday...

I have some info on an Amish store in a nearby city we might try to do as a field trip on Friday  - gotta ask Grandma if she wants to go that day?

Monday Tuesday and blue octopus

 I'm at work this week.  Esme got up very early this morning and showed great attitude getting her things ready to go to town.  We are reading Charlotte's Web, and will do another chapter or two tonight after a bit.  Last night after I got home I got into my sewing and reduced the octopus pattern to see how long a smaller one.

 6 inch diameter head and 9 inch original

The blue one is for sale at at the KnitOwl Workshop

Esme and I also tried to make enchiladas tonight.  I know it will take work to 'get it right', but it was very edible.  She ate some - it is like ravioli, but with chicken in it.  I put jalapeno sauce and sour cream on mine and even just one (and a half, because of the edges of Esme's - I made four tortillas worth) was too much food!  I put the other two away for lunch at work.

2015-1-6

7.30a    - Town, shopping price comparisons, observing trains
8a    - break
9.30a    - PE (30x 10lb squats, 30x 5lb leg lifts, 20x 5lb R&L curls,
      30x sit ups, 50x jumping jacks)

10a    - vocabulary words
10.30a    - Liberty's Kids (ep 23, 24, 25)
11.30a    - break

1.20p    - vocabulary words discussion
1.45p    - english grammar test app
2p    - Tynker app
2.30p    - break

Charlotte's Web: 'Summer Days' chapter 6 and on..   Listening, recounting story, discussion

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2015-1-5

9.30a    - Paper Doll construction
10a    - PE (50x 10lb bench, 50x jumping jacks, 30x 10lb squats,
      40x sit ups, 60x 10lb bicurls)
10.30a    - Tynker app
11a    - break

11.15a    - pbskids.org

12.30p    - Liberty's Kids (ep 21 &22)
1.15p    - pbskids.org
1.45p    - Toca Pet Doctor
2.15p    - done

Corn experiments and toy emergency room

After breaking about half of the dry cobs of last year's flint corn out to kernels, I ran some food processor experiments on them.  We tried to use the old meat grinder, as well.. but it didn't work out well.  After many runs through the machine and sifting out the flour - there was still so little of it and Mark doubted the food value of it.  But, I really wanted to see what it would yield and what it would look like.  We fed the resulting mixture to the chickens for their dinner today.  I think it will be a dent corn type we plant this year - and continue my experiments towards making something pretty and edible, at least edible for chickens.

 I thought the red cornmeal was VERY pretty.

And it was a more 'dent' type corn, so it was easier to get to this stage than the flint corn had been.

And Esme had an 'ER' open for her toys - which had assorted problems.  The frog had a pincer clip on his back, the panda bear had a broken arm, the dragon had a toothache, and the giraffe had a fish glued onto his back where he couldn't reach it (apparently it was distressing for the fish, too)  She put them all in a doctor waiting room and drew pictures of each problem on a dry erase board to decide what to do for each patient.

We played Skyrim, doing the book of Love quest(s) and marrying Lydia, and adopting two little girls.  Esme was very brave killing some wild beasts - so I was brave and went and did a random quest which was almost too hard for our character - but we survived!  There was even a point when we had three dragons attacking in a row, plus a lion and a wolf.  Then we settled down into our new house at Breezehome and she played hide and seek and tag with the children in the town, quite a lot.  She is making some sort of drawing gift at her table for tomorrow and is 'glad you're going to work Mom', because she will be hard at work on it for most of tomorrow... and there will be some squirrel, apparently...or so Daddy says.

Project bits: I tied the ends in the market bag I had made for her swimming/skates etc sort of things at the end of last SUMMER.. and had never done that to finish it.  And I added a few more rows on the gypsy moth colors blanket I have been working on for about a year. 

Bluebird Dress

We went to the roller rink today (in a different dress).  She met one of our friends there, and she also played air hockey against several boys and really held her own.  Her friend tried really hard and was able to walk and skate a little by the end of the three hours!  Esme was really rocking on her skates - the first time she has worn them to the rink.

When I got home I was looking for a project to finish up on... this New Year has gotten me in the mood to want to straighten some things up and make my work areas and projects more productive and not just scattered turf etc etc..  I sort of finished this blue dress months ago, but I hated how it hung on her waist... just too baggy yet I didn't want to take it in because then there wouldn't be any room to grow.  So, I used some leftover ribbon from something and made long ties.  And then I added a little bluebird embroidery to the side of it just to give it something extra for a reason to wear it.

Trying her best to look 'adorable'

shot of the bluebird embroidery

We had a bit of a scare with one of the puppies - but we think he is eating again and does not look quite so pitiful.  We aren't really sure what was wrong, or if it was just circumstances - asleep at the wrong times to get food etc etc...

Tired... have tomorrow off, too....