Some Bunny to Love

Lost Bunny Found!!!!OH MY... What was I thinking. This bunny is so so so sweet and adorable and just huggable and sweet. Did I mention sweet. She is so darling and for a moment when I said I'd take her until the owner was found,but had said that I would keep her if nobody claimed her.( Taking that back now) .I had forgotten how stinky these guys were. But I did find some incredible litter for it to stay in which makes so much nicer to smell. There is organic litter that is made from corn. It absorbs the PEE smell so well. I love that stuff. I found it at the BX so surly it's at Wally World by now.Leia loves this bunny and never wants to put her down.She does know that it will be finding a new home soon.But for now she's enjoying playing with her. Man why are you so cute and adorable and look like the Cadberry Bunny.

Luckily I won't have her for too much longer. I have 2 people that really want her so I am giving this sweet little critter to a good home.(I'm even throwing in the new litter just so they don't return her in a day. HA HA HA!!!

Our 1st home school field trip

We went on our first field trip this year. It was to Kensington Mansion.It was an old plantation built in the late 1700's. It has it's fame due to a woman ran the plantation after her husband died and that was unusual back then.It had 40 slave houses,but only 1 remains.This house was one of the first ones in South Carolina to have indoor plumbing and an ice box as a refrigerator.It also had windows and some of them went all the way to the floor . They were hidden window doors at the end of the tour we exited out of one. It was so cool.What's also weird is at one point this mansion was so run down that they used it as a barn.I can't imagine it.

The group of Home school kids that we hang out with

Leia with Hanna and another little girl named Lillie.

This was their rocking chair. Some kind of bench made out of pine that is flexible and you bounce.The kids had fun on it.

Welcome Home From Iraq

We went to the Welcome Home Party. The military (actually our Key Spouse Leaders) out did themselves. There was free food, a movie for the kids, a station to make posters,free flags, free things for the kids, all kinds of nice things to do. It was definitely a nice homecoming. This is Leia's best friend Hanna. She's one of the home school kids.

Jen and Leia

They had a motorcycle brigade join in. They travelled from everywhere to come and see the men and women return home from Iraq. Leia's sign that she made for both Chris and Abram. It's the American Flag,South Korean Flag,and Iraq Flag.

This was cool. They announced that they would be landing in 10 minutes but we think the pilots put it in high gear because shortly after the announcement we were given a low flying buzz and then watched it land.

This is the line that was formed by the Motorcycle riders. The soldiers got to walk through the sea of flags. It was so touching.

Pictures of all the bikes.

Welcome Home!!!!

We all got chocked up. I was crying right along with Leia.We both miss Chris and wish he was the one on the plane.

My friends Jen,Abram,and Ethan. !!!!Welcome Home!!!!!

swan lake

We went to Swan Lake Saturday. It was such a nice day. A nice cool breeze and in the 80's.

A funny looking swan. A black head and all white body.

Pure innocence that I don't want to loose.

We had a good day yesterday. We first went to the base picnic. ( I forgot my camera, sorry no pictures of that) We ran into several people there and I even ran into one of my drop in parents(I've only watched their kids once) and she was like can you watch my kids This coming up Friday? Yep you bet I have all 4 slots open. Where are all these kids that they told me desperately needed watched especially at nights and weekends full time? Where??? Anyway I'll make a few extra bucks this Friday. YIPPEE. We ran into the home school family of 9. We're going to get together for a play date. I just have to set it up with their mom, who wasn't there because of an ankle injury.Leia is looking forward to that. Then because it was so so so hot in the 90's we went to the base pool. Now for it being so darn hot, why on earth did the pool feel like freezing mountain water. Yes once you got used to the shock and 10 minuets to get past your knees ,it warmed up to like -30. But we had fun. The pool closes next Friday so this will be our last trip for the season. She did a million trips down the slide and dove and did tons of handstands and flips. She is such a fish in the water. She also lounged on the noodle.
This is the only cantaloupe that I picked out of our garden. All of the others rotted. I'm not sure why. One day they were fine and 2 days later they were all brown caving in and it wasn't just them it was most of my other plant too. Like some phantom moved in and just killed everything. So I was excited to have at least on cantaloupe to share with Leia. It smelled like mint( mental note next year don't plant near the mint patch. it was surrounded by it) so I couldn't tell if it was ready by smell. I have to learn the thumping method. Trust me I thumped the crap out of it trying to figure if it was ready. I couldn't tell. So this was my logic. At the grocery store they are selling for a buck meaning they are in season because they are normally 3 dollars. So I figured the time was right. So out came the huge knife and at first stab,I knew it wasn't' going to be good. I opened it up and 90 percent of it was green. Dang it !!!!I thought Leia was going to be devastated. I was even planning on buying another one and hiding it in our garden for her to find and then we would eat that one. But I couldn't do it. I had to tell her the truth. She took it really well. Better then I thought. She was sad about it, then her logic little head said" mommy it's OK, they're only a dollar at the store". I thought she was more into the garden thing then that!!! Oh well, Hopefully my next garden will be better and she'll get more into it.


This is a picture of my daycare. One room of it anyway. This is the main playroom.

This is the same room just a different wall. I think it looks really nice. I get tons of compliments on how nice and homey it feels. I just wish I had some full time daycare kids to go with it.

To finish off my day yesterday we had dinner at Jens. She had another friend over so it was a nice dinner party. We then watched a few movies and just relaxed. It was a nice evening. Today is church and yard work. The forecast calls for rain so maybe nix the yard work. Yippee!!! I hope you all had a great weekend.Love to you all.

Yummy Potato's

YOU WILL GOBBLE THESE UP. I had to steal these from Laura. She posted about these smashed potato's and I was wanting to cook something different. Let's just say these are fabulous and so easy to make. I changed mine a tad from hers and they have now completely overtaken the baked potato's place. That's how yummy these are.

First You boil red potato's make a lot because you will devour them. Then when tender place them on a sprayed cookie sheet with PAM and drizzled a little olive oil on the bottom for flavor,Not much though. Then take the potato masher and slightly push down to crush them open. I bushed on a small amount of olive oil. Salt,Pepper, Garlic salt,and Italian seasoning. Bake on a cookie sheet. I had the oven temperature on like 400 and left them in there until crispy. 10 minuets or so. They might look weird but lets just say this is now a new favorite. It's full of so much flavor and NO butter.I know it has oil but not much. So if your feeling like you want to cook something different this should be it. Try it and let me know what you think. I know you'll love it. I see these even making it onto dare I say the Holiday menu.

Not much else is going on around here. The neighbors are all crazy and I'm staying out of it.Today the base is putting on a picnic so Leia and I are going there. Not much else planned for the day except the normal yard work and doing more paperwork for the daycare.

Thanks Laura for the yummy spud recipe. I loved that web site that you linked it too. She's a funny writer. I'd post it here,but not sure how to do it.

Take care. I love you all

OK I caved and she did school work in her PJ's I broke my own rule.Sometimes we just get started off better if I don't nick pick on her. And if you ask her about her outfit not matching she will reassure you that it does because theirs a tiny pink something or other on the pants.She has a style all of her own.School is still a struggle at times and other days she just whizzes through it.Sorry I haven't called anyone in a few days. I've been getting ready for inspection,her schooling and watching kids. I've also started going to the gym again. Hopefully I can stick to it some.I hope everyone had a great weekend.

School is better

A picture that Leia and I drew as an art project.(NOT for school,just for fun). I think it turned out pretty good.

Things have been much better on the home school front. We've whittled it down to about 7 hours now. YIPPEE.Leia's getting in her groove a little bit more knowing that we have lots of work to do and if she wants to have any fun she better hurry up. We were invited to a pool get together for homeschooling parents and kids this Friday at the base pool. It's at 1. Leia is looking forward to it. I'm excited to meet other people in my situation. I don't have any daycare kids that day so when we get back from the pool she can finish the rest of her work. Not much else is going on around here. School and the daycare kids take up all my time.

One of Leia's art work pictures. She drew one of her dolls front,back and side view. She said the last one included a different depth perspective.

Tomorrows stack of books that we have to do,plus the online assessments for each subject and if we get around to music. We have to learn 3 short songs ,their rhythms, and do some kind of activity. It's on a video and a CD. Thank goodness. She wouldn't want to hear me sing.

We had a wonderful day today. We got our schoolwork done in 8 hours. YIPPEE!!! That's better then 10. Plus we had no arguing. I think the thing that worked best was Math has to be done last. It's our hardest subject for her. We even went to the park today. She did so well I went and rented her a kid movie to watch from the Red Box. I told her all days should be like this and that we need to speed it up by 2 hours. But if things go smoothly I don't care that it takes 8. I just don't get anything done around here. I ran into another homeschooler yesterday. She has 9 kids that she homeschools. Correction 8 she homeschools the other one is a baby. I can't imagine it. But she uses a different program so maybe it's easier. She invited us over for lunch yesterday and we excepted. It was insane how well organized she was and how clean her house was. She was so calm and patient with the all of the kids.I could learn a lot from her.Plus her neighbor was there with her 2 kids and they were watching 2 or 3 other kids. I lost count. Plus add Leia and Ito the group. It was a very full house.Leia and I were the odd ducks,but it was nice to see another perspective of homeschooling.

Tomorrow I'm watching 3 kids. One's Ethan, Jens boy, and the 2 little girls. They are so so so good. They play very well and love to play dolls and dress up with Leia. She had a good time playing with them. I had them for about 5 hours yesterday. Unfortunately I won't have them for very long. Just 4 days out of the 2 weeks. I don't have the twin boys for another 2 weeks. Things are going OK with the day care stuff AND we;re getting a little bit better at the schooling stuff.We have so much to do tomorrow and I say this every time I don't think we'll finish,but I'm cutting it off after 7 hours. I need to get ready for the kids and Leia needs a break.(SO DO I)

Take care. Love you all

bath time

Well one thing about doing day care that I didn't expect was that I have to give all of the animals a bath every 2 weeks. Chevy and "D" are no problem it's the BIG KAHUNA that is difficult. Fist I brushed him for about an hour and had a huge bag of hair enough to make another dog and then bath him. As you can tell he's pretty much fed up with me at this point. I still need to brush him after he dries.

I tried to spike his hair.He's showing off his new studly hairdo.

Chevy has never minded baths. She actually kind of enjoys them. That or she's scared to pieces and just freezes.

Nothing is funnier then seeing a wet cat. It's hilarious.

Hope I made your day. HA HA HA!!!