Summer Plans

One more week of school for us! Lately, I've been thinking about our plans for summer.

We are starting with VBS during the first week of summer.

We'll be swimming every week, we plan on using our Cypress Gardens passes on Mondays or Thursdays.

Free movies are Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10 am. So, we'll probably see a couple of those.

We like to picnic (for breakfast) at Bok Tower Gardens, so we'll probably go on an adventure there about every other week. Early mornings (they open at 8am) work for us, it's still pretty cool at that time.

We'll head to Savannah at the end of June for Uncle Matt's wedding! THE Princess is the flower girl! We'll be stopping in St. Augustine on the way back.

Other adventures we are planning are to MOSI, Explorations V, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sweetfield Farms, and a trip to DeLand to see my sister graduate from Nursing School. While there, we'll probably visit Blue Springs State Park.

Any exciting plans for summer?

Ketchup Centrifuge

You know that last little bit of ketchup (or BBQ sauce) left in the bottle?

How much money would you save if you could use it up before you pitched it? My husband has come up with his next million dollar idea.....the ketchup centrifuge!

Yes, he left the clean clothes in the washer...this kind of killed me....what if the lid came off??

If you know my hubby, then you know that he also plans on weighing the amount of sauce and figuring the cost value for it. This gives me yet another reason to put off going for groceries!

I love these fun facts! Although, I am not sure I believe them all...

Stewardesses'  is the longest word typed with only the left handand 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand. 
 
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 

 

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.   
 
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 
The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. 
 
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 

 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' 

 

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.   

 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
   
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds . 

 

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

 

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

 

A snail can sleep for three years.   

 

Almonds are a member of the peach family. 

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 

 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.  

 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 

 

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors 

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 

 

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 

 

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 

 

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.  
 
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid . 

 

There are more chickens than people in the world. 

 

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 

Mother's Day Gifts

This year, all the mother's in our life (great grandmothers, grandmothers, etc) will be getting a jewelery charm with my kid's silhouettes in them. I figured out how to make them using my digital camera and photo editing tools.

I also made some for framing in my own home! Fun!

Easter and a 1st Birthday

KOTJ is 1. Officially. My baby is a little boy now. We had a great day. Easter, birthdays (Cousin J is 2!), family, food and fun. It is what it's about. Not work. Not money. Not stuff. Time together.

It was a great day! Thank you, Jesus, for providing for us once again. Our God is an awesome God.

The Birthday Girl!!

Here's a quick picture I snapped this morning of the birthday girl in her birthday outfit (I made the top with 2 bandanas and some ribbon). 4 years old today!

What do you want to teach your children?

I'm blogging over on Motley Moms today about a running list that I have....a list of things I don't want to forget to pass on to my children. See what you thing...and let me know what I should add!