Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Random Tuesday: Bedtime script - I think we are ready for own reality show
INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT
Two parents, struggling to get three children to sleep.
One sits in the corner rocker with a quiet one year old while the other
alternates cuddles with the older siblings.
SAM
PBBBBRT! (noise)
MOM
No Sam, stop that.
SAM
PBBBBBBBBRT! (noise)
MOM
Saaaaam!
SAM
Moooom!
MOM
One more Poot and I’m
leaving.
SAM
GIGGLES, Moooomm, GIGGLES
15 seconds of silence,
parents hold their breath in the hopes that it will all be over soon.
SAM
PBBBBRT! (noise)
MOM
Stop it!
SAM
Stop it! GIGGLES
MOM
You’re such a two
year old
DAD
Sam, no, that’s not
nice.
SAM
TOOT. He he.
GIGGLE
MOM
Stop it!
Sam:
Stop it.
MOM
You little parrot.
SAM
Ma, your a pirate.
CHARLOTTE
No, her’s a princess.
Sam: No a
pirate, ya ya ya ya ya
DAD
SHHHHHHHHH
SAM
ABCDEFGGGGG, HIG,
LMNOPPPP, QRS, TUV, WXYN, ZZZZ (singing)
CHARLOTTE
12345678910111213
(singing)
MOM
That’s enough, no
more singing!
SAM
Baa Baa (singing)
MOM
SAM! No more singing!
SAM
Nooooooo!
MOM
Close your eyes.
SAM
Mom.
Mom
Quiet!
CHARLOTTE
(quietly) I wish I could talk to ghosts.
MOM
Um, why?
CHARLOTTE
Because I like it when I talk to friendly ghosts.
MOM
Have you ever met a ghost?
CHARLOTTE
Um, no. Maybe I can be a ghost for Halloween!
MOM
Yeah, maybe you could be Princess Ghost with a crown! Or a bear in a squid costume!
CHARLOTTE
Yeah! Or maybe I could be a Squid!
SAM
Mom.
Mom
Quiet!
CHARLOTTE
(quietly) I wish I could talk to ghosts.
MOM
Um, why?
CHARLOTTE
Because I like it when I talk to friendly ghosts.
MOM
Have you ever met a ghost?
CHARLOTTE
Um, no. Maybe I can be a ghost for Halloween!
MOM
Yeah, maybe you could be Princess Ghost with a crown! Or a bear in a squid costume!
CHARLOTTE
Yeah! Or maybe I could be a Squid!
MOM
(hurriedly singing) Night, night, sleep
tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite, wear your socks and shoes, sweet dreams to
you, and I love you. And you, and you
and you!
CHARLOTTE
I don’t want to ever
hear that song again mama.
Lights dim and while
dad continues to rock one year old, mom makes a quick escape. And so ends another typical night.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
When your 4 year old melt's down over pre-school math
Assignment: addition worksheet
Teach the concept of 4 + 2 by drawing 4 bubbles and 2 bubbles so she can count them all and reach 6, frustration starts but she get's it right.
Teach 3 + 7, she gets to 10 but tries to write a 3. Asks me to white out the mistake and then writes the 10. Frustration level higher.
Teach 4 + 5, she gets to 9, but writes a P. I tell her she wrote the number wrong and she melts down.
She's a perfectionist and hates making mistakes. She likes it when I use white out over a mistake but it's hard to write over white out so I cut out a piece of paper and cover the P. I open up her work book and ask her to practice writing the 9. She does it perfectly. I give her a chocolate chip to help encourage her. We go back to the homework page and she writes another P. I can't figure out how to get her to understand that she's writing the line on the wrong side of the circle. She's frustrated that I keep telling her it's wrong.
We go back to the work book to practice more 9's. She melts down again, extreme crying, screaming "I can't do it". This time I try praying over her angry spirit because she also says she's very angry with me, after the prayer I tell her she's stuck with me all weekend and we are going to keep working at this until we get it right. She stays mad for a few more minutes and finally calms down. She writes several more 9's. So we move back to the homework page and she writes another P! I cut and paste another piece of white paper over this P.
Stop, get pulled to the TV by Sam to put on another show.
Come back and after a short discussion about not getting more chocolate because she needs to learn to write the 9 correctly she writes a bunch of 9's. We move back to her homework page and she writes another P! This time I just white out the line on the left of the circle and tell her to put the line on the other side. She does. I ask her to complete the circle part of the 9 and she just writes another 9. We proceed with the rest of the homework page with no issues.
This process took one hour. I forgot to give her chocolate at the end and she didn't remind me. I'm not sure this was an effective learning tool anyway. This lesson is the reason I will probably never try to home school. I don't think I can handle this every day and she doesn't do this at school, only with me.
After the homework pages we move onto the things she really adores, painting, drawing, anything artistic. Sigh! She is the product of 2 artist parents!
Teach the concept of 4 + 2 by drawing 4 bubbles and 2 bubbles so she can count them all and reach 6, frustration starts but she get's it right.
Teach 3 + 7, she gets to 10 but tries to write a 3. Asks me to white out the mistake and then writes the 10. Frustration level higher.
Teach 4 + 5, she gets to 9, but writes a P. I tell her she wrote the number wrong and she melts down.
We go back to the work book to practice more 9's. She melts down again, extreme crying, screaming "I can't do it". This time I try praying over her angry spirit because she also says she's very angry with me, after the prayer I tell her she's stuck with me all weekend and we are going to keep working at this until we get it right. She stays mad for a few more minutes and finally calms down. She writes several more 9's. So we move back to the homework page and she writes another P! I cut and paste another piece of white paper over this P.
Stop, get pulled to the TV by Sam to put on another show.
Come back and after a short discussion about not getting more chocolate because she needs to learn to write the 9 correctly she writes a bunch of 9's. We move back to her homework page and she writes another P! This time I just white out the line on the left of the circle and tell her to put the line on the other side. She does. I ask her to complete the circle part of the 9 and she just writes another 9. We proceed with the rest of the homework page with no issues.
This process took one hour. I forgot to give her chocolate at the end and she didn't remind me. I'm not sure this was an effective learning tool anyway. This lesson is the reason I will probably never try to home school. I don't think I can handle this every day and she doesn't do this at school, only with me.
After the homework pages we move onto the things she really adores, painting, drawing, anything artistic. Sigh! She is the product of 2 artist parents!
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe
2 T Chili powder
1/2 t Garlic powder
1/2 t Onion powder
1/2 t Red pepper flakes
1 t Paprika
3 t Cumin
2 t Sea salt
1 t Black pepper
Shake bottle until well mixed.
This mix can be used for many different recipes. I use it most frequently to season scrambled eggs and for chicken breasts in Quesadillas or Burritos.
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Cinco De Mayo 2013
I got these cute little hats at a Mexican restaurant recently, it's a silly thing you'd find in a Florida "theme" restaurant. My mother in law, who is from Texas, likely found the concept of getting a little hat in a Mexican restaurant kinda odd, because it's just not done in Texas. I guess the reverse would be like finding sand in a Joe's Crab Shack and calling it "beachy theme". Anyway, we had a good old time with these silly hats for Cinco De Mayo - well all but Violette. I think the older kids enjoyed the hats more then the New Orleans/Mexican burritos I slaved over!
And if you're wondering what I meant by New Orleans/Mexican burritos, well I've read that Cinco De Mayo is celebrated more in the US than Mexico. From Wikipedia:
So I used my New Orleans Cajun spice on the chicken and in the burritos we had the chicken with black beans and corn. It was pretty outstanding!"today the date is observed in the United States as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. In the state of Puebla, the date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862"
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Violette's intro to Deerfield Beach Island
Our intention was the beach but all parking was full so we settled for an island adventure.
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