Mermaids are Flammable?

Beans, Bugs, Motherhood, family, girls 2 Responses »
Apr 292011

I didn’t know that one either….Until yesterday.

Yesterday, the Beans and the Bugs and I were snuggling on my bed.  They had had a whiny morning and sometimes, when they get snuggle time it resets their attitudes, so that is what I had decided to do (yes, it worked).  So, we were snuggling and giggling and talking under our big down comforter when the Bugs and Beans all of a sudden decided that we were sailing on a boat in the middle of the ocean.  Which isn’t anything new with them.

So, we were out in the ocean, and a storm was coming up.  So they had to go and rescue the baby mermaids. Bugs would dive off the side of the ship, and come up with a baby mermaid, pass it off to Beans and then go back down for another.  After rescuing about five mermaids, she was done and the storm hit.

Apparently that storm was fairly bad….there was lightening and thunder.  We had to dive for shelter numerous times.  And then it happened.

The Mermaids caught on fire.  No idea why, it was rather spontaneous.  Then, horror of horrors, we had no firemen on the ship to put them out.  So, Captain Mom dropped some hoses into the sea and taught her little sailors how to spray water out of them to put out the flaming mermaids.

After the threat of our ship burning, the Bugs jumps up and yells that she needs her gun.  I ask her why in the world she would need a gun on a ship in the middle of the ocean.  I was half expecting her to exclaim about some pirates boarding the ship when she informs me in her most no-nonsense voice that the bear was coming towards us and we needed the meat. No one had any idea how in the world a bear was able to get to our ship, out in the middle of the ocean and land no where in sight.

I must say, the girls do have very vivid imaginations.  I love watching them (and participating) at their play.  They stories they come up with and act out with such passion gives me hope.  It gives me hope that not all imagination is dead in our society. I pray they keep their sense of wonder, fun and imagination with them for a very long time, even well into adulthood.  I wish I had been able to keep mine.

Posted by Crissyanna at 11:33 AM

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow…

Beans, Motherhood, family 6 Responses »
Apr 042011

Bugs on the left, Beans to the right. On Bean's 3rd birthday, isn't her hair gorgeous?

Today has been one of those days…..

Bugs has had a rather obstinate day. This morning she decided she couldn’t do school. It was quite the battle (we’ve been dealing with issues of jealousy with her friends at church who are truly school aged and attend public school. She wants to go like her friends do.). So, she got into a huge amount of trouble and wasn’t permitted to watch any movies, play on the computer or her Leapster Explorer.  She also wouldn’t clean up the 64 count box of crayons she dumped out on the kitchen floor in front of my stove and sink.  So I refused to cook lunch until she had cleaned it up so I could get to the stove.

Lunch was very late today….

Then, as I was taking a breather and going through the junk that was delivered courtesy of the United States Postal Service, Bugs came and told me that her bed was broken.  I told her I would go look in a second.  She told me I needed to come now.  There was something in her voice that said I needed to go check.

So, I walk into their room and find the Beans, sitting on Bug’s bed with a pair of scissors in her hand, and small wisps of hair surrounding her. I calmly state no, SCREAM in utter shock, horror and disbelief.

And of course, I break into tears.

I go over to the bed, and the Beans is now crying hysterically.

Upon closer look, I discover that more hair is missing from her head than what I saw on the bed.

You can see how short the side became after the self-barbering attempt...

I ask the Beans if she cut her hair.  Her answer was that the Bugs had helped.  The Bugs denied any involvement.  After more questioning Beans admitted to cutting her hair herself. She hid the extra three handfuls between her sister’s mattress and the wall.

Front view of the bangs. Yes, there is a patch that is less than an inch long.

So, after I got myself calmed down, and I called my mother to see what she would have done in a similar situation (apparently neither my sister or myself ever tried to cut our own locks.  However, my sister was fond of scalping Barbies and My Little Ponies. She became a licensed cosmetologist…and now a funeral director). My mom really didn’t say much other than to send her pictures.

So, I decided to plop her into the shower, wash her hair and attempt to fix the damage.  Yes, by myself.  A trip to the salon is not an option for us financially at this point.

It turned out pretty well. I think.

Her right side. It took awhile to get the sides even.

The back of her new 'do.

I trimmed the rest of her bangs and if you sweep them to the side, and perhaps with a large bow, that patch of super short won't be too noticeable...

We did figure out how the scissors came to be in the room.  It was the Bugs.  She is the one who can reach the drawer they are in if she’s standing on a chair. She got them down to practice in her cutting workbook the other day. And I was a negligent mommy who didn’t double check after she was told to put them away.

Thankfully Hubbs was very understanding of the whole thing and got a chuckle out of it.  He even cooked supper for me tonight since I was a bit busy fixing issues in one form or another all day today. Hopefully tomorrow is much smoother.  And the hair will grow back. I have to keep reminding myself of that one.  Her hair will grow back.

Oh, and the side rail of the bed did fall down.  It is an older bed, and we aren’t sure how it was originally made, but we had to screw a metal plate back in the side to reattach the rail to the headboard. It’s fixed now.

Posted by Crissyanna at 9:30 PM Tagged with:

Blue (wo)Man Group Wannabe…

Beans, Bugs, family, girls 2 Responses »
Apr 022011

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So, while I was given the afternoon to promote the blog with the Ultimate Blog Party (see button on right hand widget column, I’m on the phone at the moment and can’t hyper link) my husband took the girls outside to play. He ran in to the garage to look for the pruning shears and when he came back out, the Bugs had gotten the blue glitter paint (it was outside from painting paper mache) and had decided that her sister needed painted….all over her face. She did a great job at least at keeping it out of the Beans’ eyes as she applied it like eye shadow (where she figured out how to do that is beyond me, I haven’t worn any in ages…). There was also a few lines all up her right arm.

Thankfully, after another hour outdoors in the mud puddle and sandbox, it started to wear off. Then a nice bath took care of the rest (you should see my bathtub…)

Posted by Crissyanna at 10:48 PM

Weekly Wrap Up 3.11.2011

Beans, Bugs, Homekeeping, Memes, TOS Crew, Weekly Update, curriculum, family, girls, homeschooling 1 Response »
Mar 112011

I decided perhaps it was time to link up my weeks in review with a meme.  So, I know of several people who link up at the Weekly Wrap Up over at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and decided that since we are weird, and rather unsocialized I should link up there….

So, this week tanked pretty much. I had plans, hopes and dreams.  Then Daddy brought home a sinus virus from I’m guessing work.  Thank you Daddy…

It should have been a clue when Hubbs woke up Sunday morning feeling horrid.  He had a headache, his sinuses were pounding, and my extremely hot blooded man was freezing cold and had burritoed himself in the down comforter on the bed (that never happens…) We ended up staying home from church so as to not share.

Well, we ended up with a lesson in sharing within the family. Monday, we were still fine.  Bugs conned me into setting up our folding picnic table in the living room to do school on. So, we set out school.  She worked on her lesson in Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, we sounded out some words together, worked on her Developing the Early Learner Workbooks and then she begged to play GCompris on the computer (we use Ubuntu Linux, GCompris is an educational software suite on it). So I let her and she had a very fun afternoon. Beans worked on her All About Reading that we are getting to review, and had a blast with her workbook pages.

Tuesday, Bugs wakes up way too early and sounds a little stuffy. She is slower than molasses and can not concentrate to sound out rhyming words at all.  These are all words she has read before (ran, can, etc). We trudge through our workbook and she is cranky and obnoxious the rest of the day.  Beans does her work and seems to be fine.

Wednesday, the girls wake up, and Bugs and Beans both have noses that look like leaky faucets.  Beans is using me for a tissue, and both seem to be barely functioning.  We call school off for the day. I figured we hadn’t taken a sick day since last semester and there was no way they could handle cognant thought at all.  They both actually take long naps that afternoon!

Thursday, they wake up feeling fine.  I wake up feeling like I had been hit by a truck.  So, in the name of their safety I hauled the laptop into our bedroom and let them watch movies nearly all day. I was barely conscious for it. So school was canceled due to the lack of a substitute teacher. By the evening I was starting to feel better, so Hubbs and the girls and I went grocery shopping.  While in the pet section of Wally World, they had yellow spotted puffer fish for sale. We had just done a unit study on puffers for the Crew (Curiosity Files, the girls LOVED it) so at least they had a bit of science for the day.  At Wal-Mart of all places….They really liked seeing them.  Hubbs decided he wants a few because of how neat they look. Now to find a place to actually put up my old ten gallon aquarium as the small little puffers won’t get along too well with our tank of rather large fancy goldfish.

This morning, I’m getting ready to start school when Hubbs calls from work.  Someone decided to pay his way to the Church’s men’s retreat for tonight and tomorrow if he could go, could he? Of course I said to take the opportunity.  He said he would come home on his lunch break and pack his overnight stuff.  I decided since what I knew he wanted packed needed washed, I would wash it all up and just pack for him (trust me, it is much better if I pack for him….oh the stories I could tell…) So, since the girls still aren’t quite 100% yet and I had a bunch of extra work all of a sudden, we took today off to. Besides, I didn’t know when Hubbs was going to be getting home so I could take him back to work (his ride was leaving from his work) and I wanted the girls to have time with their daddy. We didn’t discuss the earthquake in Japan or the tsunami, they aren’t quite old enough I think yet (4.5 and 3) and I’m not sure I’m ready to introduce such heartache into their lives.  Let them live oblivious to it a bit longer. I wish I could keep horrid things from them forever, but I can’t, and I know they have had to learn about some things already (like death, that is always hard.).

Needless to say my house is also rather trashed.  Beans only wanted me to hold her since Wednesday basically. Bugs wanted to snuggle. Then I was struck down and then nothing got done today for housework.  Blech.  At least I have all day tomorrow to catch up with Hubbs gone for the retreat. And I even have the car!!!!!!  Maybe we’ll race ourselves in picking up and sterilizing the kitchen so we can go do something fun tomorrow afternoon after lunch. I haven’t had access to the car like this for ages. We normally all go together anywhere on the weekends, and I don’t have it during the day typically through the week because he needs it for work.

So, there is our week in review.  Not a whole lot this week.  Next week, it is supposed to be nicer outside and hopefully our backyard will dry out enough so we can go look for insects.

So, go visit Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and see what everyone else is up to.

Posted by Crissyanna at 10:46 PM

Busy Busy Busy

Beans, TOS Crew, family, homeschooling No Responses »
Feb 242011

Is the understatement.

Beans turned three a week ago today. She is getting so big.  She chose pizza for supper and had a very cute cake. Grandma came the day before and stayed a week with us.  Then, the girls and I drove Grandma home yesterday and are in town with her until Sunday when Hubbs will take us home.  He’ll be here Friday evening.  He’ll get in while I’m at a Homeschooling Retreat with some friends. I am meeting up with some friends from the TOS Crew and having dinner Friday night and going to the first half of the retreat and then all day on Saturday. This is going to be way too much fun….Yes, a write up will be ensuing.

I didn’t bring my winter coat to Kansas.  Silly me.  It is only February….But it was so nice when we left….It has rained off an on all day today. So we declared it movie day for the girls.  Grandma isn’t feeling so great so at least the girls are being quiet.

I’ve got things to get done yet before going over to a friends’ house for supper tonight.  I can’t wait.

Posted by Crissyanna at 3:44 PM
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