March Musings - Day 15

They taught me a lesson in monopoly. I was home from work as we never opened due to the snowstorm, so we played Wizard of Oz monopoly simplified. L-Jo and T-Bug played the first round. Surprisingly, T-bug won! Her strategy was to buy only the properties she had her heart's desire for, and when all was said and done, she had the most cash, so we deemed her the winner! (It's easier to do it that way!)

The second time it was with T-Tot, and Lil' G. Lil' G won because she did an almost identical strategy to T-bug, and ended up with twice as much money as T-bug! ($2057!)

All in all, I have a new strategy for the next time I play monopoly.... We shall see if it works! Also, a cup of coffee with it helps. ;~)

Just remember, if you are playing monopoly, your cat will want some dominion as well in this. I call this photo: "Surveying his monopoly...."

Expectations...a reflection on the First Summer of Dating

I basically began dating at the end of spring, beginning of summer; the quasi month of May. This past winter, John and I decided to write a bucket list of ideas just for fun of things we wanted to do this summer when we began dating! Well, as he heads back this weekend for college, I thought about the bucket list, and realized we didn't do much at all which made me rather sad. I pulled up today, and realized just how much we did do! To celebrate the end of my first summer of dating, I'm gonna see how many things we did on my list of 26 things! {Edited to add: One of them I realized was a winter-only thing, so 25 is sliiiiiightly more accurate!}

1. Beaver Lake! - CHECK! We did this as our first date! We planned on it for foreveeeeeeeeeeeeer!
2. Spending time together in prayer and God's word! - CHECK! We aim to do this every day over Skype! Skype is awesome by the way!
3. Go through a devotional together! - Nope! Maybe next year!
4. Movie nights at either one's house! - CHECK! Lots of movies at my house, and I saw Star Wars 7 (whatever it's called XD) at his!
5. Dance together! - CHECK! We've attempted this XD It sorta worked
6. Dance together under the moon! - CHECK! We actually managed to do this too! Again....it sorta worked but not really XD
7. Picnic at John's camp! - CHECK! I went to his camp on July 2nd to celebrate the 4th of July!
8. Picnic at Beaver Lake! - CHECK! Did this on the first and only date to Beaver Lake!
9. Picnic at a park! - This gets 0.5 check mark because we did if you count either Beaver Lake or going to a park with a picnic with my family!
10. Chimney Bluffs! - Nope! Maybe next year! 
11. Spending a day at John's camp! - 0.5 if you count half a day for the 4th of July celebration!
12. Read a book together! - Nope! Maybe next year!
13. A Sunday drive! - CHECK! Just to the store probably, but we've gone for a ride on Sundays!!
14. Teach John how to crochet! - Nope! XD Maybe next year ;)
15. Get ice cream together! - CHECK! Did this a couple times!
16. Get together with Heidi! - Nope! Maybe next year! <3 
17. Hike the Canal trail! - Nope! Maybe next year!
18. Share tea! - I'm gonna say 0.5 because we probably did XD
19. Pick wildflowers! - Nope! Maybe next year!
20. Dinner date on July 1st! - CHECK! XD we were both cranky, but we did it anyways! We dressed up and he gave me my first bouquet of flowers which I've hung to dry <3
21. Fireworks! - CHECK! I love watching him enjoy fireworks! <3
22. Sunrise/Sunset picnic - 0.5 because it sorta counts when we went to his camp!
23. Lights on the Lake - well.........this is winter XD soooooo it's not included in this
24. Date at Red Lobster - Nope! Maybe some other time!
25. Date at Panera - CHECK! We went to Panera twice! Once to meet a friend, and then on the 1st for dinner because we changed our minds last minute.
26. Date at Barnes and Noble to browse (and a place of John's choice afterwards!) - Nope! But we better do this next summer XD I love Barnes and Noble ;)

Soooooooooooooooo to tally it all up!

14 out of the 26 we accomplished! 

1 was impossible since it's not Christmas time XD

And that leaves 11!!!

Our most popular date that we had was going to Walmart! XD Don't question why, but we always had fun just window shopping or finding presents for people! Another one we did was to Wegmans (the picture below) which is the same genre. 

And lastly, the second most popular date we had this summer was play games and watching Star Trek together! <3

Beautiful Blessings - 8/10/16

~ taking the kids to the Zoo to You program and having different animals at it than the one they went to a few weeks ago 

~ having John and Alexa over to help with the blog-iversary project

~ going out for ice cream with my family and them

~ a kitty proudly wearing a bow made by his girlie

~ teasing John just because

~ ending the night with A Ticket to Ride and losing horribly but having fun nonetheless

Beautiful Blessings - 8/2/16

~ watching Sarah, Plain and Tall

~ watching Finding Nemo for the first time in 7 years

~ a day to recouperate

~ teaching myself Clock Solitaire

~ good progress made on my knitting project...like GOOD progress XD

Beautiful Blessings - 7/27/16

~ a much needed iced coffee fetched by John

~ working on a surprise for the upcoming blog-iversary

~ many guest posts coming up! (I asked among my friends and acquaintances if they were interested in doing a blog post to celebrate! I have many ones in queue that will be posted in the next week or so, and some other exciting posts coming up as well!)

~ learning a new card game together with him this evening

~ counting down the days for something exciting I am heading up at work!

Beautiful Blessings - 9/26/15

~ Going to Pennsylvania for the day!

~ Teaching and watching my sisters play different games!

(dont ever play carpet ball against Lil' G and L-Jo!)

(trying to play air hockey with ping-pong paddles)

(foosball!)

(XD my favorite method when playing ping-pong)

(waiting a turn at billiards)

(ballerinas thought alike when we saw one of the weight rooms)

~ Visiting with John for a couple hours and seeing the beautiful college!

~ Seeing the railroad bridge!!

(T-Tot and T-bug looking at a flower they found!)

~ Visiting Salt Springs Park in Montrose P.A.!

(a chipmunk T-bug and I spotted!)

(throwing rocks and making big splashes never grows old)

(L-Jo joined T-bug with this)

 

(the ham)

Twas a fun day in P.A.!

Beautiful Blessings - 7/20/15

~ Going to the library in hopes of finding a good book or three!

~ Playing Wig Out, Go Fish, Bug Bingo, and Memory games this morning.

~ Having the last half of Dad's famous delicious pancakes! (I got up too late to have a full pancake lol!!!)

~ Getting a needed nap!

~ Looking forward to having a campfire when we get home from the library!

Beautiful Blessings - 7/19/15

~ Watching the girls do "chores" in their Sunday best.

~ Finding new uses for game chips. ;~)

~ Spending a quiet evening by the river.

~ Finding psychedelic patterns in the water.

~ Being caught having fun! I was able to read two books I've been dying to read! "As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust" by Alan Bradley & "The Princess Spy" by Melanie Dickerson.

Beautiful Blessings - 7/13/15

~ A quiet evening with some games of Solitaire....and actually winning a game without cheating! (I havent done that in a lonnnnnnnnnng time lol)

~ Compliments from Daddy <3 

~ Matthew 11:28

~ Enjoying iced coffee from yesterday....and realizing it was Mom's I was drinking today and I have some still for tomorrow ;~)

~ Mosquitoes -- even though they are a pain!

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Shoot!

So on our way home from Church, T-Tot, and Lil' G decided to play Rock, Paper, Scissors: Shoot!

As I was listening to them, I thought of the possibilities the game would have should it be played with the process of elimination.

Say if one person chooses rock, and another, scissors. The scissors would be broken, and out of the game. Then the paper and rock would be left, and paper would win because the rock would be covered. Now if the scissors go against paper first, then the paper would be cut up and the rock would win as it would be able to smash the scissors. But, if rock and paper went first, then the rock would be removed, allowing the scissors to chop the paper back up, and win!

Now if you actually read that nonsensical rambling, I'll be very surprised! ;~D

Saturday

• Laying under the pine tree
• Listening to children's laughter
• Learning about nature
• Loving children's inquisitive thoughts
• Listening to calls as the kids play
• Loving the expressions on their faces as we read books together
• Looking at them as they learn new games
• Learning how they grow
• Loving their grins as we hide in tents
• Looking out for each other
• Leading each other in silly games
• Living so Christ's love shines through
• Lingering watching them interact
• Laughing with and at each others shenanigans 
• Loving the time spent with one another
•  Living with each other in community
• Loving how we learn
• Learning how to love

What are we up to?

(Lil' G, T-Tot and L-Jo)

They got out the big board-book atlas yesterday, so they've been having fun looking for their favorite countries. They've also taken turns playing I Spy with it. 

Me? I'm working on my *fabulous* fashion skills. I mean, how many other people wear sneakers with sparkly shoelaces, a floral skirt, a red jacket, a scarf with foxes, and sunglasses?

T-Bug is the most ambitious one of us all. She is getting 12 teeth right now! I tried to get her to smile for the camera, but all she was doing was making goofy faces. ;~)

Happy Birthday in Heaven!

Happy Birthday to my Great Grandpa! He would have been 97. :~)

I remember having lots of fun with him. We explored his house, read books together, played games, and more! I remember right before he died he read The Three Little Pigs to me. He was such a sweet and loving Grandpa. I love you Grandpa!

What I have acomplished

Start school, organize books, look over Math book, and finish my week to week planning. 

Clean the quilt that has sat in the laundry room for forever and a day.

Memorize Ephesians 3:14-21 I memorized 99%.

Well its better than nothing...I still haven't looked at Math..........

 Schedule for the week:

Monday: Laundry
Tuesday: Baking and mending......
Wednesday: Socks and entries..... 
Thursday: House clutter control
Friday: Laundry
Saturday: Special chores
Sunday: Family time and game night

Hmmm, hope this works.... off to do Earth science......