One of Greyson’s favorite thing to eat for breakfast is Banana pancakes and bonus, I do too! I love that they are so simple, easy to make and super healthy – all natural! So many of you gals asked for the recipe so here it is! So easy! I use to love making these pancakes and I totally forgot how good they are and healthy! My sister reminded me of them just recently and how my niece loves them! So glad she did, bc they are now Grey’s favorites! Makes: 1 Serving Ingredients: 1 egg 1 Banana 3/4 cup of whole oats Directions: […]
The stewardess was giving me sharp, directed looks to turn off my iPod – but I was torn between disturbing her authority and finishing Ray LaMontagne’s new album. His music is an enchanted wood, but a dirty wood – maybe somewhere between Grangeville & Knoxville. And the thing I couldn’t get over was the ampersand (&). The title is : God Willing & the Creek Don't Rise. But this is not about the music. This is about the album title - the AMPERSAND. Nothing says “I’m starting a cool business,” “opening a trendy restaurant,” or making stylin’ music” like an ampersand (&). It’s a ticket to the inside track. Think about it, just here in Seattle: - Needle & Thread (pre-prohibition upstairs room of Tavern Law that serves cocktails out of this vast array of bowl-style champagne glasses) - Emmer & Rye - Sway & Cake (Malibu-like boutique on 5th) - Anchovies & Olives (another of Ethan Stowell’s babies on Capitol Hill) - Flora & Henri (magical children’s boutique with Pima cotton folded like cacoons on the displays) - The Walrus & the Carpenter (new oyster bar in Ballard) A majority of the new Melrose Market: Sitka & Spruce (ok, their bar just uses the apostrophe: Bar Ferd’nand) Marigold & Mint Calf & Kid Anyway, you get the idea. The Ampersand (&) really is this swirling bit of magic - so much better looking that the word “and” all spelled out to be exposed to the next thought. I like it because it implies that there’s a tension going on. It’s not all just black, or white – it’s Black & White. There’s more than one story; it’s multi-dimensional. I also like it because when I bought my grandma’s 1996 Forest Green GMC Jimmy for college, she gave me an Ampersand (&) keychain that I’ve kept ever sense. Grandma & Me.
Happy New Year! It is so hard to believe that it is the year 2011! I am looking forward to a happy and healthy year. I have worked most of the Christmas break organizing and getting ready for the remainder of the school year. I was very fortunate to be able to attend a Dr. Jean seminar http://drjean.org/ in December. Unfortunately, all those wonderful ideas had to just sit in my head because I was way to busy at school (and my second job and Christmas shopping and Christmas decorating, etc.) to implement any of the ideas. HOWEVER, I have worked so hard these last couple of weeks and I must admit, I am very excited about starting school. Let me share a few things with you that I am going to do. . . . One of the challenges that I have faced this year is during my "Circle Time". I usually try to divide my large group sessions into two or even three separate times. This way the children (and I) don't have to sit still for too long. Even though it is only just a short time it seems like everyone wants to talk at once. Even though I enjoy the enthusiasm, some of my students are getting left out. I hopefully will solve this with an idea from Dr. Jean - my new microphone! Our new rule will be "you can only speak when you are holding the microphone" and of course everyone will get an opportunity to speak. By the way, the microphone was made with left over wrapping paper (that's the blue part) wrapped around a paper towel tube. (note: my husband suggested that I stuff the paper towel tube to keep it from collapsing. Great idea! I used old plastic grocery sacks.) The top is an old plastic Christmas ball that was on it's way to the garbage, covered in aluminum foil. The entire base was wrapped in clear packing tape to keep in from falling apart. This cost almost nothing! My next dilemma has been walking from our classroom down the hall. It seems a have one or two that love running and yelling! My solution . . . . The front of the bottle. The back! Mrs. Karen's "Quiet Spray"! It is an old spray bottle (completely cleaned and dried out!). There is nothing in the bottle but it does make a little "squirt" sound when you pull the spray trigger. Everyone will get a squirt of "Quiet Spray" as we walk down the hallway. The next little item I decided to try is "Brain Sprinkles"! I borrowed this from Dr. Jean. It is an old coffee creamer bottle with the label removed. First I filled the bottle with about two tablespoons of rice. Then I put a piece of plastic wrap under the lid and glued the lid with my handy-dandy E-6000 glue. (If you don't have this glue - go get some!!! It will glue anything together.) The plastic wrap allows me to actually open the lid. Everyone will get a little sprinkle before our "Circle Time" begins! Very low tech, but I am hoping it will be effective! The last thing (for today) is another new game. Does this look familiar??? It's the little lid that comes off the top of baby wipes! I asked my fellow teachers to save them for me. I laid 15 of them on a piece of poster board and wrote our numbers on the top. On the inside there are coordinating "dots"! I believe this will be a fun way to help my students count and review our numbers. Again, this is virtually free and very, very low-tech! Thanks for checking in with me. See you soon!
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Original Caption: Older Citizens, Retired Persons and Those Unable to Care for Themselves Physically Are Cared for in Two Community Centers This Woman Lives at the Highland Manor Retirement Home, Keeping Busy with "Old Country" Crafts. New Ulm Is a County Seat Trading Center of 13,000 in a Farming Area of South Central Minnesota. It Was Founded in 1854 by a German Immigrant Land Company That Encouraged Its Kinsmen to Emigrate From Europe. U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-15873 Photographer: Schulke, Flip, 1930-2008 Subjects: New Ulm (Brown county, Minnesota, United States) inhabited place Environmental Protection Agency Project DOCUMERICA Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=558323 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
4624. Her face was like an acorn, in that it was somehow a little wide in the jaw, and the haircut provided the cap of the acorn. Her skin had the redness of deep sleep. I ask you, when is a woman most beautiful? A woman is most beautiful when they are deep asleep, or when they are in a towering and justified rage. 4625. Poor Coromo, as he knelt there in the dark was dealt a terrible blow by his strange fate. He was overcome by an infinite tenderness for the sleeping stewardess. It was not like physical attraction exactly. The best I can do to describe his feeling is to compare it to the feelings of a father, who tucks in his sleeping daughter. 4626. You may think that that is all well and good, and that for Coromo to be attracted to the sleeping stewardess was just in the natural order of things but that shows how little you understand our hero. I remind you that two years ago he fell in love with the woman we always called the third sister, the one he went horseback riding with. 4627. Perhaps you remember his affair with her, and how they corresponded by e-mail for a year. Then the received a note saying she was engaged to a lawyer, and asking him not to write anymore. He did as he was told, and he never wrote to her again, but that woman had been in his mind ever since, and he was faithful his idea of her, and in all this time had never so much as noticed any other woman.
How well do you overcome obstacles? I used to think I did a pretty good job of handling the things life threw at me. I realize now that my idea of handling things was to let my inner perfectionist control freak run rampant. There was no grace in how I handled things. If I knew
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Why is play important for children's development? So many reasons! You can use this free printable poster as a reminder of all the benefits of play.
