It’s official. Liam has been invited to test for his black belt. I got a little weepy holding this form in my hand during the parent meeting for all of those invited to test. Liam has worked so hard for this. He will do great. I know he will, but he still has a lot of work to do over the next three weeks…like write a three page paper on the history of tae kwon do.
Archive for October 2011
It is WAY too early to be buying Christmas anything, in my opinion, but I always buy the boys a new nutcracker for Christmas (they have quite the collection going now) and we were at Target and the boys were with me and the nutcrackers were on display, so…
It’s time to gear up for art lit again at our wonderful school. The parents will be teaching the kids about Joan Miro this month. Sean and I both went to the parent training. This is Sean’s. I didn’t have time to make one because I had to leave a bit early.
They were having a festival for dogs at the World Forestry Center today, so off we went with our pup in tow. The boys were way more excited about being there than our sweet dog. He was terrified at first, but then warmed up to the idea. We also purchased a Halloween bandana for our dog from an organization that was raising funds to rescue deaf dogs from shelters and to also help owners who have deaf dogs learn how to work with their dogs.
It was a gorgeous afternoon, the boys we were done with their soccer games for the day and I was not going to sit around the house all day, so Sean and I rustled up the boys and off we went to Chinatown. I can not believe we had done been to the Chinese gardens before. This is a little piece of heaven in the middle of the city…so quiet and beautiful.
They have a scavenger hunt for kids with pictures of objects for them to find throughout the gardens.
(Project 365-10/15/11)
Since the boys didn’t have school today I wanted to take them on a little trip to a restaurant that was actually on our “to do” list from this summer, but we never got around to it. Well, apparently everyone else in the city had the same idea because it was CROWDED! We waited over an hour! The boys were uber patient though and the fun they had was well worth the wait.
(Project 365-10/14/11)
You pick what kind of batter you want…there were about six to choose from, we chose buttermilk and peanut butter. The batter comes in a squeeze bottle.
Everyone gets their own spatula and you cook the pancakes at your table. You also choose what toppings you want. We chose chocolate chips, chocolate syrup, bananas and apples. Can you guess which ones Colm chose?
I have a feeling this is the last tomato of the season. There are still a LOT of green ones on the vine, but it’s too cold and rainy now for them to turn red. I went to the garden today and picked two pumpkins and this one lonely tomato.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE book fair…it’s so much fun and the kids love being able to shop for new books right there at school.
This was our book club selection for this past month. We met tonight to chat about it and it led to a great discussion about how everyone had met their husbands. I think part of the reason the discussion was so interesting was because there is a large age range in my book club and everyone is from somewhere else. So many interesting stories…some were love at first sight, some married their co-workers, one gal met her husband in the children’s section of a book store, one gal married a man who was dating a friend of hers first and then of course everyone loves the story of how Sean and I met. 🙂