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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Snow Ball Fun
Oh I absolutely love this simple but adorable idea. I'm gonna make Big ones with the girls for outside! What a great winter sleepover idea when the girls have friends over!
Rudolf The Rednose Reindeer
I want to eat his shiny nose on these adorable donuts!
Source: freefunchristmas.com via Kristina on Pinterest
Santa Baby ~ Brownies
Early present for self today...Mini cupcake pans!
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
It's a Flom World After All
I love our little bubble we live in. As a family we really do do our best to encapsulate every moment as if it were our last. However, I chose to stay inside the warmth tonight & listen to my traditional Christmas music channel, finish folding clothes & deal with puppy potty training still, yes Charlie did just start to pee, while Derek took Breanna & Emily swimming on a very balmy 9 degree night. I had to copy Dereks facebook post which reads..."Its a balmy 9 degrees must be time to swim! Just need to remember not to leave swim bag in my truck! — at The Pool - Lifetime Fitness Center....Many other great posts I could think of that gets my blood boiling like .."It's a steamy 77 degrees in my cozy house, fire place glowing, music softly playing & my heart is full of love" Where's hallmark when you need them? ; )
So Derek has the girls at the pool & is paying them .50 cents for each time they go down the slide to earn money for tomorrows Secret Santa shop at their school. They left with intention of going down 40 times to get 24$ each. Looking forward to hear the results. Earlier Breanna came home & was telling me all the details about her field trip today to The Kindness Retreat...Light bulb turned on & I suggested "how about you blog about it all then I can read it always" Immediately I loved the idea of getting both my girls excited about blogging about their days for mom & dad. Well it turned into a business right away. Breanna says, "How much are you gonna pay me?" A penny a word seemed very fair. "No, 10 cents" she says. After bickering about words for a blog I came back with .05 cents a word and she agreed. I set her up & away she started typing. She was busy blogging for close to an hour. I even commented, "what's taking so long?" "I'm putting extra words in" she says. For money! Well I think in the end this was a real good penny earned in my book for Breanna. When she was done she speaks loudly with joy, "Come look I posted it" She was tickled to show me how long it was! :o) Her next statement..."check how many words there are now?" Word count complete, tally back, 613 words...She jumped up to the ceiling with happiness, laughing! lol Well moral of the story I have to pay up or her blogging days are over...& I much appreciated her blog to let that cease. Emily says "You didn't want me to write about my field trip" oops well Yes I do & actually I honestly have hers started just not posted so she's ahead of the game...Stay tuned for her Orchestra Hall field trip she took last week to see Hansel & Gretel. If only I could rewrite in her words the excitement she shared about it!
"It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small (Flom) world after all
There is just one moon
And one golden sun
And a smile means
Friendship to every one
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small (Flom) world after all" ~ The Sherman Brothers
So Derek has the girls at the pool & is paying them .50 cents for each time they go down the slide to earn money for tomorrows Secret Santa shop at their school. They left with intention of going down 40 times to get 24$ each. Looking forward to hear the results. Earlier Breanna came home & was telling me all the details about her field trip today to The Kindness Retreat...Light bulb turned on & I suggested "how about you blog about it all then I can read it always" Immediately I loved the idea of getting both my girls excited about blogging about their days for mom & dad. Well it turned into a business right away. Breanna says, "How much are you gonna pay me?" A penny a word seemed very fair. "No, 10 cents" she says. After bickering about words for a blog I came back with .05 cents a word and she agreed. I set her up & away she started typing. She was busy blogging for close to an hour. I even commented, "what's taking so long?" "I'm putting extra words in" she says. For money! Well I think in the end this was a real good penny earned in my book for Breanna. When she was done she speaks loudly with joy, "Come look I posted it" She was tickled to show me how long it was! :o) Her next statement..."check how many words there are now?" Word count complete, tally back, 613 words...She jumped up to the ceiling with happiness, laughing! lol Well moral of the story I have to pay up or her blogging days are over...& I much appreciated her blog to let that cease. Emily says "You didn't want me to write about my field trip" oops well Yes I do & actually I honestly have hers started just not posted so she's ahead of the game...Stay tuned for her Orchestra Hall field trip she took last week to see Hansel & Gretel. If only I could rewrite in her words the excitement she shared about it!
"It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small (Flom) world after all
There is just one moon
And one golden sun
And a smile means
Friendship to every one
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small (Flom) world after all" ~ The Sherman Brothers
5th Grade Kindness Retreat
http://www.youthfrontiers.org/programs/kindness/
Hi my name is Breanna and you might have heard of me from my mom’s posts. I go to Minnewashta Elementary School and I am a magnificent 10 years old. I just started the 5th Grade. I had a field trip today and it was the kindness retreat at Mount Calvary Church in Excelsior, MN. Today once I got to school I had to go straight to Phyed and went roller skating which was really fun. Then right after Phyed we got on the crazy buses and went to the kindness retreat. Once we got there we went inside the church's gym and we set are coats/jackets on the side of the gym. They were playing music and there were these three adults there and a whole bunch of high school kids there and we got name tags with numbers on them my number was number four. The adult’s names were Kk, Sam and Molly. Kk was telling us to dance right after we put are coats down and they were playing the song Dynamite. Then Kk told us to go sit in between the two speakers and they started playing more songs that they told us to sing which was really fun. Then we split into three groups and made thunder storm sounds and rain storm sounds which is really cool and it sounded like really real. After that Kk told us how she was bullied in 5th Grade and then each high school kid got a sheet and a number, pencil and we had to find our group leaders and I was number four so I had to find my leader and when I found my leader we had to sit in a circle. My leaders name was Kelly Stacker she was really nice. So we had to list ten things on what types of bulling is happening at are school. After that we had to play a game called fist of five it was really fun. I forgot to mention the other kids that were in my group there names were Molly, Jacob, Elise, Matt and Garret. So after are small groups Molly told us to sit in between the speakers again. So we sang more songs which were so fun and funny we also did dances which was also fun and funny. Then Sam played a song that he wrote and it was called (My sweet old Granny). It was really funny. Then Sam told us how he was bullied in 5th Grade and then we went back into are small groups and did another activity. We had to list ten things on how to stop bulling. Then we had to go down to the bathrooms wash are hands come back and get are lunches then sit in are small groups and eat lunch for about a half-n-hour. Then we got out of are small groups did more dancing and singing which that time was really fun and funny cause we learned a really awesome cool dance. Then Molly told how she was bullied in 5th Grade and we had to get back into are small groups and do another activity. So we had to think of ten ways how to stop bulling and ten ways on how to make people come friends. Then we played duck gray duck until the other groups were ready. Then we played a game called Soul Train which was really fun. Then we had to write on a piece of paper about bulling and share it if we wanted to. But after that we got kindness button pins and headed back to school. That was my 5th grade Kindness retreat. - Breanna
Hi my name is Breanna and you might have heard of me from my mom’s posts. I go to Minnewashta Elementary School and I am a magnificent 10 years old. I just started the 5th Grade. I had a field trip today and it was the kindness retreat at Mount Calvary Church in Excelsior, MN. Today once I got to school I had to go straight to Phyed and went roller skating which was really fun. Then right after Phyed we got on the crazy buses and went to the kindness retreat. Once we got there we went inside the church's gym and we set are coats/jackets on the side of the gym. They were playing music and there were these three adults there and a whole bunch of high school kids there and we got name tags with numbers on them my number was number four. The adult’s names were Kk, Sam and Molly. Kk was telling us to dance right after we put are coats down and they were playing the song Dynamite. Then Kk told us to go sit in between the two speakers and they started playing more songs that they told us to sing which was really fun. Then we split into three groups and made thunder storm sounds and rain storm sounds which is really cool and it sounded like really real. After that Kk told us how she was bullied in 5th Grade and then each high school kid got a sheet and a number, pencil and we had to find our group leaders and I was number four so I had to find my leader and when I found my leader we had to sit in a circle. My leaders name was Kelly Stacker she was really nice. So we had to list ten things on what types of bulling is happening at are school. After that we had to play a game called fist of five it was really fun. I forgot to mention the other kids that were in my group there names were Molly, Jacob, Elise, Matt and Garret. So after are small groups Molly told us to sit in between the speakers again. So we sang more songs which were so fun and funny we also did dances which was also fun and funny. Then Sam played a song that he wrote and it was called (My sweet old Granny). It was really funny. Then Sam told us how he was bullied in 5th Grade and then we went back into are small groups and did another activity. We had to list ten things on how to stop bulling. Then we had to go down to the bathrooms wash are hands come back and get are lunches then sit in are small groups and eat lunch for about a half-n-hour. Then we got out of are small groups did more dancing and singing which that time was really fun and funny cause we learned a really awesome cool dance. Then Molly told how she was bullied in 5th Grade and we had to get back into are small groups and do another activity. So we had to think of ten ways how to stop bulling and ten ways on how to make people come friends. Then we played duck gray duck until the other groups were ready. Then we played a game called Soul Train which was really fun. Then we had to write on a piece of paper about bulling and share it if we wanted to. But after that we got kindness button pins and headed back to school. That was my 5th grade Kindness retreat. - Breanna
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