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The Alphabet Revisited Part 1

We are celebrating the alphabet again this month. I decided that I would post all our modifications to Abbi's original idea for doing this.  Abbi posted most of this list about 5 years ago.

A.a.
Dress in; apricot, azure, amber, aqua or almond or anything.
How to act; Adorable, with Agape, and like Angels
Things to do; Admire and Appreciate things and people, Aerobics, Adventure Around, or/and Act like Animals.
Breakfast; Applesauce or apple doughnuts
Supper; Au gratin potatoes with ham, Aylmer bread, Apple juice, Alfalfa sprouts on salad and angel food cake.

B.b.
Dress in; black, blue, brown, beige, beads, or bags. Wear braids, and be beautiful.
How to act; Be bright and brave.
Things to do; Blow up balloons and bubbles, ballet.
Breakfast; banana bread, or blueberry buckle, or blueberry muffins or bagels or blinis.
Supper; Burgers on Buns or Burrito bake, Beans, Beverage and Blackberry pie.

C. c.
Dress in; Cream, cobalt blue, cotton, crowns, costumes,capris, clean colorful clothing and wear curls.
How to act; Carefully and compassionately.
Things to do; Clean, climb and celebrate.
Breakfast; Crapes, cantaloupe, cold cereal, cheesy eggs, coffee cake, or corned beef hash.
Supper; crab casserole, carrot and/or cabbage salad, cottage cheese, candy. Or, Curry chicken and cake or cookies.

D. d.
Dress in; dark colors, dots, denim, dungarees, or a dress.don't forget deodorant!
How to act; Daring and delightful.
things to do; dance, dig dirt, dominoes, dress up, decorate, Do dishes.
breakfast; doughnuts or danish puff
supper; doggies in a blanket, dill pickles and dairy drink.

E. e.
Dress in; earth tones, eggplant, everything.
How to act; Entertainingly.
Things to do; Enjoy...eating, Encourage everyone.
Breakfast; Eggs.
Supper; Enchiladas, or Egg rolls.

F. f.
Dress in; fuchsia, floral, flags, flip flops, flannel or furs. Wear a french braid.
How to act; Forgiving, fun.
Things to do; Frisbee
Breakfast; fresh fruit, french toast, or flap jacks.
Supper; fish fillets, fruit salad, french fries.

G. g.
Dress in; Green, gray or gold.
How to act; good.
Things to do; Play Games, give gifts, gymnastics.
Breakfast; Grapefruit and granola, grits, gravy with biscuits.
Supper; Goulash, garlic bread and green salad. or gumbo, gingersnaps.

H. h.
Dress in; hunter green, hats.
How to act; helpful.
Things to do; give hugs.
Breakfast; hash brown quiche.
Supper; ham, herd roasted potatoes, hush puppies, hungarian green beans.

I. i.
Dress in; Indigo.
How to act; be Inspiring.
Things to do; make an ice sculpture.
Breakfast; Individually wrapped pop tarts, incredible edible egg.
Supper; Indian tacos, individual pizzas, ice tea, ice cream.

J. j.
Dress in; Jewel tones, jeans, jewelry, or a jumper.
How to act; joyful.
Things to do;Tell jokes, jump rope, jujitsu.
Breakfast; jam on bread, juice.
Supper; Jambalaya, jello

K. k.
Dress in;khaki,
How to act; kindly
Things to do; give kisses, karate.
Breakfast; kalaches, kiwi
Supper; kabobs, Kentucky fried chicken, kohlrabi.

L. l.
Dress in; lavender, lilac, lemon, linen,leather, lipstick, loose clothing.
How to act; Loving.
Things to do; Learn to Love, leap frog, lemonade.
Breakfast; lefse.
Supper; lemonade, lasagna, lettuce salad, lemon bars.

For you

Bakers Man

Pat a cake,
Pat a cake,
Bakers man,
Bake me a cake,As fast as you can,Roll it and pat it,And mark it with a K, and put it in the oven for the kids and me!

H day

day 39
Tonight for dinner we will be having Ham, Hungarian green beans, Herb roasted potatoes and Holiday bread from Morocco. I am excited about our menu. It is all smelling yummy.
For our other meals today we did not remember to be H-ish. :)
We did some yard work today and some school work.
Some of us seemed to be having a hard time with it being Monday. At least he was very grumpy and fussy until naps. Oops, I said he. :)
We are listening to music again tonight.
I need to rake my yard because it is looking more orange then green.
The weather is still rather chilly.

C day

Day 34Molly wore Clean Colorful Clothing for C day.
I wore Cream Colored Clothes for C day. Lars wore Colors.
Heidi wore a very Colorful Costume.
We did some Cleaning,
we ate Corned beef hash for breakfast.
We are about ready to go to ChurCh.

B day

Day 33

Today has Been Basically Beautiful!

• The kids tried to Blow Bubbles with their gum. Molly almost got it.
  
• We wore Black, Brown, and Blue clothes.
• We had BlueBerry Buckle for Breakfast.
• I Baked Bread today.
• We just had Burgers on Buns, Baked potatoes and Beans (green) for supper.
• The kids also watched some Birds in the front yard.

Day 16

Aw. A nice day.

• We are dog sitting for the weekend.
  
• I was so, proud of Molly. She went outside with the dog and pet her and did not panic at all. The dog was pushing against her and just loving it that someone came out to see her too.
• We made cinnamon caramel sticking buns for breakfast this morning. Everyone helped. Lars also got the job of licking the butter and cinnamon and sugar bowl. He said, "this is so tasty."
• The weather cooled off this evening.
• The kids are playing their version of hid and seek now.
• We finished reading Charlotte's Web tonight.
• I did not mow the grass again today. I was planing to do it in the afternoon when we were done with school but, it started raining right after lunch.
  

Day 10

Today was kind of an odd day. I thought about northern MN a lot.

• We turned an old little girls bike into a boys bike today. It still has white tires but some things can't be helped. The other thing that is a problem is that I am really bad at spray painting. :) It was fun to do.
• Worked on the rag rug again today. Oh, and no I don't have a pattern I just started crocheting around in circles. I should have used a pattern and I should have redone some of it because it has some really bad looking spots. But I am too lazy.
• I tried to sleep in because three kids kept taking turns coming into my room with complaints all night long. But they were up and raring to go bright and early. oh well, I really haven't been tired today.
• The kids went outside right after breakfast this morning and did not come back in until I called them in at 3 pm. They went back out right after naps too.
• I had the kids pose for some pictures this afternoon. I had been looking at some other peoples posed pictures and thought I should get some of my kids because it has been a long time since we did any kind of portraits.
• I've been pre-reading some of our school books for this year. they are some really good books. They are Sonlights Core 1 books.
  

Day 9

• I mowed the grass again today. only in the front yard this time. I really don't like my grass because it is not thick and it sends up really tall seed things really fast but the rest of the grass doesn't grow very fast at all. Feels like a waste of time to be running back in forth to cut every 10th grass blade.
  
• I think I'm a little bit grumpy tonight. sorry about that little rant.
• Started working on a rag rug again. I am making it out of old t-shirts. I am using whatever color happens to come next so it is getting a farm house look to it. kind of fun.
  
• We used our new school room table today for school. It was very nice. We ate in the dinning room and did school work in the school room amazing really.

Day 6

• My children are at this moment playing in the garage with their bikes. Their bikes are upside down and the are using them to, "make candy." You will have to ask them how this is done as I am not sure quite how to do it.
• Another day of school went well.
  
• We ran to Wal-mart to get some ink for the printer.
• Had some nice phone calls tonight.
  
• We had one of the kids' and my favorites for dinner; Split pea soup, with ham, and corn bread.
  

School really takes up a lot of our time now. It is time well spent and we all enjoy it so it's good.

Avocado

Well I am trying to grow and avocado. And it is growing!

We did go on a vacation!

Here is a small sampling of the pictures we took while on vacation!(I have posted many more on facebook!) The top picture is of us at my favorite place to visit. We hiked through the woods to a really cool mountain of fallen GIANT rocks.
At the WWII memorial in Washington DC.
Riding on our cousins pony. Lars and Heidi really loved to get to ride it.
We got to see family. What can be better than being with family in the great outdoors?
Some of us got to meet new friends. (One of us got to see old friends!)

Serving Tea

A Little about Molly

Molly has mastered the art of Bow knot tying. Last night she was wanting me to help her tie her apron string for her but then we decided I could coach and she could tie. She was getting it really good last night but then this morning she practiced some more and mastered it!

The other thing you might notice about these pictures, she is holding her purse. She takes her purse with her everywhere. Last night she even took it to bed. And then first thing this morning she shows up with her blanket and her purse. When we went to the grocery store this week she had it along and was able to buy herself some gum.

Creative kids

My children are so good at finding entertainment for them selves. this top picture is of them cutting old paper bags. Heidi would cut out a piece than show it to me and if I didn't ask right away she would tell me to ask her what it was. so then Lars started doing that too.
Here is some art by Lars. he was having lots of fun putting stickers on my back.
Scissors are awesome fun things. the only trouble is if he runs out of paper to cut he starts cutting his clothes or whatever is handy.

alphbet update

Well I wanted to share some pictures of things we had and did lately.
The Pizza is our P- day pizza, it was very yummy.
The picture of my babies is our Q-day Queens. We made the crowns and Heidi's scepter.
And for today, T-day, Molly and I drank tea with our breakfast of (french) toast.
That's all for tonight. Tata. :)

Thoughts

Today we are wearing pink and purple and Periwinkle and eating things like pears and peanut butter sandwiches. so can you guess what day it is? Good job. you are right! it's P day! And for supper we are having my all time favorite, Pizza!
We will be making it from scratch here is my recipe (this is what I made for Bob Blanshan Sr. and he loved it.) ; Pizza crust

1 cup warm water 1 Tablespoon Yeast

1 teaspoon salt 1 Tablespoon sugar

3 Tablespoons oil 2 cups flour(more or less)

dissolve yeast in warm water then add everything else and knead until smooth. Spread out on a pizza stone or greased pan. Bake in Hot oven for a few minuets. Then spread whatever your favorite spaghetti sauce on however thick you like top with lots of good toppings and cheese and bake another few minuets until the cheese is as golden as you like it.

That is how I make Pizza.

Another thought I had was that I must confess the only reason I have this is because all the cool people are doing it so I want to be cool too. ;D No, actually I really enjoy reading all of yours so I thought I should share too. :)

A blogging thing

This month has been alphabet month. we are spending each day thinking about one letter. We have been using the menu that Abbi posted. we have been having lots of fun with this and it has helped the girls understand letter sounds and with recognizing them.