100 days of school

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We completed 100 days of school yesterday. We've never really kept track before, but Claire's Spelling and Math curriculum are 1 lesson each day curriculums so it was easy to see when we got to the 100th day. Poor Claire was sick so we just put together a 100 piece puzzle.




Later, she counted out 100 pennies and we are going to exchange them for a dollar today at the bank. This was a good lesson in multiplication too. She had just been learning about multiplying by 10 so we counted out 10 sets of 10.

Nathan made a list of 100 cars. I told him to make a list of 100 things: 100 kinds of food,
100 countries, etc. He chose cars. :)



Here are some sites with even more ideas for the 100th day of school:

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/proj/100th/act.htm

http://www.vickiblackwell.com/100th.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/hundred.shtml

Silicone bowls and a toy mixer...just what I'd been looking for!

A while back I posted about CSN stores. The nice people there at CSN gave me a gift certificate to use in their stores. They have everything you could imagine from home office desks to kitchen gadgets. It was hard to choose!

I've been wanting some small silicone bowls. As you may know I'm now an independent consultant for Homemade Gourmet. Each month I have a meal assembly party at my house where we get together and assembe meals for the freezer. These little bowls are just perfect for that. I ordered 3 sets! (And they arrived just in time for the party!) I used them this weekend at the meal assembly for honey, chopped onions and brown sugar. They worked perfectly! I have a feeling I will be using these a lot. :)



My daughter had a toy stand mixer that I got for her several years ago. It was one of her favorite toys. Unfortunatly, I broke the bowl to it when I was moving her kitchen set one day. She was very sad and I told her I'd get her a new one. Well, that happened on New Years so the toy aisles were very picked over and I hadn't been able to find one...ANYWHERE! But I found one in the CSN stores! I didn't tell her I ordered it. I just gave it to her when it came in. She was so excited!!

The shipping on it was very quick and its a great quality toy. She is really enjoying it.

Thanks, CSN!!

Disclaimer: I was compensated for this review by CSN with an online gift certificate.

Wordful Wednesday

Claire had her first gymnastic meet of the year this weekend. She did great! Here she is doing her floor routine. I think she was doing a back bend kick over.


I can never get good pictures during the meet so I had her post on the beam afterward. (And she landed her cartwheel on the beam again too!)


Here she is with her ribbons and medal. She LOVES getting a medal!

Wordful Wednesday is hosted by seven clown circus and Parenting by Dummies.

L.E.N.S. Photo challenge: February

The L.E.N.S. photo challenge is hosted by Home is Where you start from. This week's theme is February. My photo is from our February snow. We usually have spring-like weather in December, but when February rolls around here comes the snow!

Postcard Friendship Friday #68

This is one of my favorite postcards! (And, I thought, a good choice with Valentine's Day coming up.) I would just love to know the story behind it!

The postmark date didn't show up, but the gentleman dated it 10-3-11. Which is really funny being that this is 2011. It looks like there was once a stamp on it, but it is no longer there. The card is not in the best condition, but I just couldn't resist it when I found it. I loved the mystery of it. The correspondence is written in pencil so its hard to read. The picture on the front is raised so some of those lines came through on the scan which also makes it hard to read. It's addressed to Miss Iva Rogers in Temple Texas.

This is my best translation:

Hello there girl

Are you very mad at me. Don't you think I could get you in a good humor. I couldn't tell for my life why you quit writing to me. I guess you don't like my style tho. I am going to S.D. and will write you again. Be good Iva D.

He also wrote on the front of the card. On the left side it says "A dangerous place to be"
On the right side it says "So I see Dont you remember me my name's Ernest." He also wrote "By By" above the boat.

I would love to know what they fell into with a splash and why Miss Iva stopped writing to poor Ernest. He doesn't sound like he gave up though!

Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted by Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

Round Robin: Valentines Boxes

My bloggy friend Amy is hosting her monthly Round Robin today. Hop on over to see other festive February posts.

I'm sharing a craft idea using emtpy tissue boxes...

Our homeschool group has a Valentine party and exchange every year. This year we have our boxes ready. We used empty tissue boxes. I spray painted Claire's and she put foamy shapes, paper hearts and stickers on it. Nathan, who is 13 and only participates in the hope of getting candy, just covered his with the funny papers. It turned out real cute though and took very little effort from him!


When I was a kid I remember making Valentine boxes out of shoe boxes. We never seem to have shoe boxes laying around though so last year I came up with the idea of using the tissue boxes. With our allergies we ALWAYS have plenty of them!

CSN stores

I love CSN stores! They have so much great stuff! They've got everything you need from
home office desks to lamps to towels and cookware. All on one convenient site.

The nice folks at CSN are giving me a chance to review one of their products. Hmmmm....which one should I choose??? What would you choose from CSN?

I'll be sharing what I chose soon so stay tuned! :)