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Nonsense [Extravagant foolishness or frivolity]

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. 

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. 

Which is what I do. 

And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Dr. Seuss

 

Here’s a lovely little way to recycle chocolate heart boxes…

Serve up a little pre- Valentine’s Day lunch for two!

Mini chocolate boxes are prefect for pb&js.  Big boxes could hold any number of nibblies.

 

 

Alphabet SOUP! 

Stone SOUP!

Oh My!

 Is it possiblie to make SOUP fun? Maybe!!!! YES??

S o u p s  O N!

Learning Fun: Spell with Soup Cans & The Alphabet Soup Treasure Hunt

Books: Stone Soup (Murth), Campbell Kids Alphabet Soup (Adams), Mouse Soup (Lobel), Pretend Soup & Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up (Katzen)

Songs: The Vegetable Soup Song & Soups On! Lyrics: Here

Activities: The Tomato Soup Taste Challenge, Making Homemade Stone Soup (yes with a real stone!) & Can Doo Game 

Arts & Crafts: Cardboard Soup Stove & Alphabet Soup Collage

Making Stone Soup (or shall we call it SILLY Soup?):

 The Alphabet Soup Treasure Hunt was thg big winner of the week. Mason searched for tiny treasures to fill his pot of soup:

Ideas & Inspiration:

Lamb-Chop reads Stone Soup: Part 1  &  Part 2 

Photo Soup Cans:  We made these last year!

Template for Alphabet Soup Collage: HERE!

Stone Soup Recipe: Family Fun

Stone Soup Printable: Scholastic

ohhhh and how could I forget the “Spelling with Soup Cans” game???  Ya, it takes a serious dose of cheesiness to embrace this kid friendly lifestyle!   

So after a full day of winter snow play…. get your SOUP ON!  :)    

I took the big boys to see the Harlem Globe Trotters last night.

I loved their dunks and their crazy ball handling skills.  

 The humor was good, but the talent was spectacular!  

And of course the boys suckered me into getting an official BALL—-

I loved this snippet from the book {Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify and Add Laughter to Your Life}:

“There is nobody else exactly like us, and there never will be.  Each of us is His special creation and is

 alive for a distinctive purpose.  Because of this, the person we are, and the contribution we make by

 being that very person, are vitally important to God.” 

 

 

 

Question: Can laundry be fun?

Answer:  Yes, yes it can!  BUT only if you are a kid!!!

Wash. Dry. Fold. Repeat.

Ya, it’s so much more fun when you PRETENDING!

This was Emerson’s santa gift! 

 Sadly, this poor laundry mat will soon be closing shop… cardboard can only last so long (not long at all in our house!)…  but it was fun while it lasted. 

  

 

Does snow make you happy??? Sure does us… we waited and waited and waited… finally we have enough to get serious about some snow play!

 From our Snowman Buffet (aka lunch):

 Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops,

over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along.
J.W. Watson

—{Details}—

Arts & Crafts:  Beardbuster (shaving cream) Snow People, Snow Painting and Felt Snowman Game 

Learning Fun: Count the Snowballs (egg carton + pompoms) and Stamp & Count Snowguys

Fun with Food:  Whipcream Snow Smash and Taste, Snowman Buffet Featuring; PB&Js, Snowman Soup, Snowman Sippies and Mini-marshmellow Snowfolks 

Just for Kicks: Inside Snow Play and Tiny Snowfamily

Books: The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats), The Snowman (Raymond Briggs), Dream Snow (Eric Carle) and Jan’s Bretts Snowy Treasury

Ideas & Inspiration:

Super Snow Week:  Monkeyin’ Around

Frosty the Marshmellow:  The Decorated Cookie

Snowman Pizza:  Happy Happy Pizzas

Sensational Snowy Ideas:  Here!  (Ohhhh what fun… look at the kiddos all dressed up as snowmen and this was my insprition for our beard-buster snowpeople!)

Snowman Sippies:  The Party Dress  (Ours didn’t turn out nearly as cute… aren’t these seriously ADORABLE!?)

Snowy Preschool FUN: The Activity Place

Okay and perhaps the real reason for our theme this week (more like two weeks, three?)—  I had an excuse to dress Blaise up as a snow-baby:

If you have snow I hope you are enjoying every single second of it! 

 If you don’t— come visit– we have plenty to spare. 

Happy Snowy Days to you! 

I promise! NO MORE Christmasy photos after today!

Christmas card 2009:

I had three different card versions… I can never pick just one?  I made a itty bitty mini from a folded buisness card,  a square tri-fold, and a post card with my all time favorite Christmas MEMORY (kids on mailboxes handing out treats)!

This design is from the fantastically brilliant designer Sarah Gourdie. She has the most lovely card designs.

 

Teacher THANK YOUs using Heather Ann’s gift tags:

 

(And yes, I was tempted to say thanks a latte!  But I thought that might be taking things a bit to far.)

Here are the cups—Starbucks gift certificates were tucked inside…

 

“It’s good to be children sometimes and never better than at Christmas.”

Charles Dickens  

 

347 days till next year… but who’s counting??!

I hope the JOY and WONDER of Christmas stays with you all year long!

 

…one of my favorite things.

 

This kind of activity:

 

Leads to some serious SWEET CHEEKS:

 

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up,

snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather,

only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin

 

I bet you can tell what our theme has been this week! 

 I WISH!

Only it was this kind of Paris—–

We went to Vegas to celebrate my dad’s 70th BIRTHDAY! 

It was grand spending time with my dad and his sweetie.  We had terrific laughs and tons of fun… but Vegas is Vegas–  glimmer and glam covering up some ugly and excessive trash.  

Quick snaps from our trip:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!!!!!!!!  We love you {Vegas and all}!!!