Eep! We’re totally 1/3 of the way thru mending March and I can’t think of anything I’ve mended yet! I did take out some things to mend though. We’ll see how far I get with those. If you have things to mend, now is the time to do it!
Life is still a whirlwind here. We slept over the Mystic Aquarium this past weekend with the scouts, which was quite fun (despite the absolute lack of sleep combined with daylight savings start). I thought fixing the clocks to something was a totally bipartisan issue (I have not heard anyone NOT complain about the clocks moving) yet no one has tackled that one. I’m in the “I don’t care whether we adjust to daylight savings or not as long as we stop the changing” camp. Not only are the changes a complete train wreck every year, twice a year (especially when you have pets or kids), but it makes our meetings misalign with everyone else in the world. How annoying. Am I preaching to the choir here?
Patricia and Julius both still crack me up when I least expect it. Last week Patricia had Dr Seuss themed Spirit week. For wacky Wednesday she wore Valentines pants, a Halloween dress, and braided a candy cane into her hair. It was very wacky (much more creative than I would be). When she came home from school this happened:
Me: Patricia, where did your candy cane go?
Patricia: Oh! I ate it for snack!
For some reason the imagery of Patricia taking her hair accessory out and eating it (plus that fact that she tricked me into giving her a candy cane) tickles me.
Patricia is also doing really great reading with the Bob Books right now. I always forget the kids can read, and I had to remove some (of my favorite) lewd magnets from the fridge the other day that they noticed and were asking me about. Then for Valentine’s day Will got me a candle that said “Smells like she’s reading fairy smut again”, which is wildly appropriate. Julius clearly had read it several times and asked me one morning:
Julius: Is fairy smut a real thing?
Me: Yes, but it’s an adult word.
Julius: Like saxy*?
Me: Exactly.
*Note: Julius asked about the word sexy the other day, probably because they use it in Gangnam Style but he mispronounces it and I choose not to correct him.
Speaking of Valentine’s day I cannot believe I haven’t told you about what we gave out to the kids’ classmates. I will tell you the story of how unhinged I am next week. For this week I will tell you that we made Patricia’s classmates scented play dough! I think they came out really cute. Patricia was very proud to help me make the dough and decide on the scents. I will say the lemon came out WAY BETTER than the vanilla. The vanilla scent doesn’t come thru as much as the lemon. I used the same play dough recipe I used to make gingerbread play dough and it comes out soooo soft.
To scent them we added about a tsp of extract to each half batch. Next time it might be better to try something more strongly scented like essential oils. Of course I saved play doh containers for this and added the ingredients and a note to say homemade so they aren’t confused. Patricia dictated the note to write on each one and we I put them with a cookie cutter in these cute little paper lunch bag I picked up (not for this) and sealed them by hole punching thru the rolled down bag top and securing with ribbon.
