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Real Name: Kristin Shell Member Since: March 27, 2008 Last Signed In: December 04, 2008 Blog Views: 631 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
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The Fairytale Town Printed Story.... Meeting with the children's book writer.... Gaining Security Writing and Illustrating Suprise Guest - Speedy Taco Salad Spontaneous Outing Start Kindergarten early or later? Fishing with Him How to Build a Log Cabin March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 Family Keepsake Storybook I'm offering a nice price for illustrations for those that are writing or have written children's stories. The price for printing a family keepsake storybook w/cd format is $20. Check out my website www.ecrucartwheel.com
"Mommy, Do You Think of Me." Everything is coming along nicely with the illustrations for "Mommy, Do You Think of Me". I have already finished drawing the illustrations. I'm getting ready to add the coloring to 14 illustrations. Once the printing is finished. We will save the illustration layout on a disc for future copies to be printed. *** Story Illustrations If you are still interested in illustrating let me know. I can schedule a time for your illustrations to be done. (Which, a lot of the stories entered into the contest should) *** Charlie, The Lonely Dolphin I'm also wrapping up the illustrations for "Charlie, The Lonely Dolphin" Siri Backer is the writer preparing to publish her story about a lonely dolphin finding friendship with a tour boat guide. *** 
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We had a suprise guest this week. So, I whipped this out of my arsenal of meal recipies. My mother was a single mother of three and this is one of hers. It fed my husbands, very large friend of 5'7-8", who had 3 plates of it!! He loved it. He was a big eater and a wonderful guest.
1 precut salad bag 2 diced tomatoes 3 chopped green onions 1 lb ground beef 1 taco packet 1 can kidney beans 1 cup cheese 2/3 bag favorite flavored Doritoes (mild cool ranch or hot spicey) Sides: Sour cream, Salsa, avacados, or 1000 island dressing etc. Shopping: approx. $25.00 HOW TO: In large skillet-brown ground beef, add kidney beans; add taco packet; set aside and let cool In large salad bowl - Throw together bag salad, chopped tomatoes, green onions Add cooled meat into salad bowl, grate cheese over it, crumble doritoes over it and toss. Done! Serve with side choices: sour cream, salsa, avacados, or thousand island, refied beans or tacquitoes etc. Serves - 7 & 3/4 (image courtesy of flickr.com - we ate it all so I dont have a picture. This one is a good likeness) :)
I do a little drawing in the morning and organize the final pictures for the story I am finishing up. I'm doing a story about at lonely dolphin looking for some friends to play with. I am on, really, the last two pages of the story. I check my emails, send word about the progress and make my lists for the day. Jumping up to stretch a few times from working. I run around and make sure the house isn’t completely destroyed by the kids. My toddler is running around naked, like a feral boy. (for potty training). The older boys are finally, getting dressed for the day at 9am. My middle child has already started a round of Lego Star Wars on the game cube. I have to straighten the house from the night before and clear the table from kid toys and cereal snacks. Wash a few dishes to keep up and make pancakes for everyone. My toddler refuses to wear clothes now. He struggles and kicks. I wrestle some clothes on him. I'm a little, okay, a lot...frazzled because getting him dressed is a fight. My twelve year old helps with my middle child to get his pants and shoes on. As I have the second child clear the table and put away breakfast. I have to run to the pharmacy for a prescription and a few things for the household . My second son is undergoing treatment for a chronic constipation. He has to get regular again. All four of the children have to go with me if my trip is going to be longer than an hour. One, my eldest helps with the two younger toddlers and two, my second child isn’t old enough to stay at home alone yet. I am not looking forward to hauling all four boys in the heat, just to go to the pharmacy. OOoo, Mom that's fun. I call my husband to let him know where we are going and I already sound exhausted. He said, I’ll pick up the pharmacy things if you text me a list. You guys just go and do something fun. We drove over to the new do-it-yourself frozen yogurt shop, Lickity Split. It’s a cute little shop, on Madison Ave., up the street from our house. It has lots of bar stools and one small table. Along the wall in the back are three soft serve yogurt dispensers with different flavors. Then, the next wall has clear bins full of every type of topping. All different kinds of candy, granola and dried cranberries. Its charged by the ounce. You can also make your very own split with their bar of syrups and chocolates. Its really fun! Very delicious, cool treat. We decided to check out the “local putt-putt“. Even though it’s a hundred degrees outside. The Sunrise fun center. Lots of bumper boats, race cars, batting cages, and a mini golf course. I know its been there for years but, I've never been there. My oldest buddied up with the middle child. My second son buddied up with me and my toddler, who has never played before. He was so cute putting the ball everywhere, getting distracted and running around the golf center playing on all the mini golf displays. There weren’t very many people there so I didn‘t have to chase him deterring him from other peoples games. There was just another couple with a young boy and a few teens playing sploosh ball. The boys had a lot of fun. We started turning beet red from the heat and tried to cool of in the little pond displays they have situated throughout the course. It was funny...I was dousing my toddler with water all over his head and shoulders. The kids were getting too over-heated so we cut it short, did the 19th hole where you win an extra game. We were melting from the heat. I got some water in my littlest from the water fountain. Then, we drove straight home and he fell right asleep on the comfy chair. I took a nap too. I felt so accomplished getting all the boys out and playing. They got a bunch of white roses for me for a "Good Mommy Prize". :)
I packed up my things and went to the park to get the kids out of the house. When an older couple came walking through the park. They had their grandson with them. My 3rd son was about the same age. My son introduced himself to the couple and the little boy, who was acting a little shy. I told my son not to push because the other little boy didn't seem like he was wanting to play right now. The lady quickly introduced herself to me and said, that 'it just takes a little time for him to come around'. Once the lady and I walked away to talk, the boys started playing together nicely. We were able to make light conversations about how our boys discovered new bugs and such things. I casually brought up how we were getting ready for Kindergarten in the fall and would her grandson be starting as well? She said they were going to wait. They didn't want to rush into starting him early. They had waited with their own children, who have turned out to be very sucessful people. They mentioned that they, themselves, started kindergarten at a later age as well. Not to mention that they were sucessful people too. :) I started my 1st son in Kindergarten early. He was 4 yrs old and turning 5 yrs. a month after kindergarten would start. So, he was the youngest in the group but, we felt he was academically ready. He did just fine. He is brilliantly intellegent. Accept, emotionally he had a hard time metabolizing a lot of social situations. This time around, it made sense to me to have my 5 year old wait until he is turning 6 yrs. old to enter Kindergarten. It'll give him this extra time to fully mature socially and emotionally. Maybe, we will have him try a couple of playgroups for a while or preschool preparation. Of course this depends on every families choices and living situatons. I just thought it was an interesting conversation and it was good food for thought. |
