Day Zero Project

In light of turning 25 I've decided to make a bucket/goal list for things I want to accomplish in the near future and before I die. I found this really neat website Day Zero Project where you can add things to a goal list and check them off as you do them. I like having all my goals online in one place, it keeps me organized. There are 3 lists: the 101 goals in 1001 days project, a list for things you want to accomplish with no deadline to them and a list of goals you have completed.

Here is the link to my goals in case you are interested or need some inspiration. My Goal Lists

How to reuse kid's workbooks

If you are like me and always looking for ways to save money, you will appreciate this tip. I am homeschooling my preschooler this year, and school supplies and curriculum are not cheap at all! I got a really great workbook for my preschooler but it was $6 and she goes through the activities so fast. Her little sister always wants to participate as well, but being two she isn't quite at the preschool comprehension level. I figured out a way to use the worksheets over and over. Now the girls can color until thier heart is content, take turns doing the same activities, and I only had to purchase one workbook.

You will need page protecters, a three ring binder and a workbook you want to reuse.

If the book is stapled, go to the middle and undo the staples. I was lucky with this one, it easily came apart. If it's not stapled you can tear or cut the pages out.

Insert the pages into page protecters.

Organize into a three ring binder and wa-la!

You can use dry erase markers or crayons to write with, just remember to wipe off when you are done.

Mess Free Painting Project

My girls love to paint. They also love to make huge messes I spend way too much time cleaning up. So naturally my usual responses to thier pleadings to paint is usually "Not right now", "Maybe later" or "Isn't there ANYthing else you want to do?" If you are like me and dread the mess that comes with painting try this activity. Did I mention its a somewhat quiet activity too?

All you need to do is take a ziplock bag, put 1-3 blobs of paint inside. Use a few different colors, and make sure they don't mix yet. Seal the bag, tape it to the table at the top and bottom using painters tape. I didn't have painters tape so I taped it to a paper bag instead, which is also a good option.

 

Kids love to squish the paint around. We also drove some toy cars over the paint to make different patterns.

Grape Tomatoes

Serenity got a gardening kit from her Grandma Bede for her birthday last year. We planted the seeds on her birthday this year. We are now getting at least one grape tomato a day. There is usually some arguing amongst the girls as to who gets the tomato that day. Haley will eat hers right away, while Serenity prefers to name her tomato and talk to it for a while. Of course Haley usually manages to gobble it down when Serenity is not looking lol!

The day we first planted the seeds.

After sitting in tiny pots on our window sill we transferred them to larger pots on our porch. We put two seedlings in each pot.

Our first tomato!