Asia Review

Let's see here . . China, South Korea, Japan, India, Israel, and Thailand! That wraps up the Asian countries we studied. It's so fun to have real, live friends to go through this Expedition Earth curriculum with. Here is a get together we planned to review Asia. My friend planned a great facts review with Jeopordy. I planned the craft and some Russian foods since we happened to be wrapping up Russia that week. We decorated with all our Asian crafts and they brought theirs so it was a kind of show-and-tell.

I'll give more detail on the craft when I blog our week on Russia.

My happy birthday

I love the gifts EH gave me for my birthday this year. Okay yet again I had them listed on my Kaboodle but I'm tell'n ya' you can't go wrong that way. :)

My apron! I felt a little funny in it at first because I don't think I actually know anyone who wears these anymore. The General brings it to me whenever I'm in the kitchen and that has helped me get used to it (he likes to put things in the pocket and to point to the bow in back). Honestly now I could spend all day in it. I feel so industrious in it. It's well made and I love the fabric. I found it on Etsy at Terrace Hill. (Right so that's not me in the picture just a very cute shop model)

New potholders. Lovely even if they don't actually protect me from the heat of hot pans. I found them on Etsy at Tootsytwo.

And as for my birthday . . . well I'm now officially closer to 40 than 30. Babies must make you feel young because I sure don't feel THAT old.

Ornaments to stitch

Aren't these ornaments simply sweet? Ooh my fingers are itching to stitch. Now if only I could get my cracked, bleeding fingers to heal up so I could stitch. (I do have a new cream I'm going to start using on them, fingers crossed!)

I added this pattern (and her book!) to my Kaboodle list. EH's birthday is coming up next month so I'm going see if there is any camera gear under a few grand listed on his wish list. Okay so I'm kidding, that is so not in our Dave Ramsey budget but it will be fun to check out what he's been adding lately.

Kaboodle

This year EH and I were racking our brains to come up with things we wanted to get each other for Christmas. EH sent me a nice E-mail list and I started one. However, those lists always seem to get lost. So our solution: Kaboodle, an online wish list registry accessible to anyone. Rather than just creating lists for EH and I it kind of exploded and now each member of the family has a wish list. Even our homeschool. The neat part about this is that you can pick things from anywhere on the web and link it up with Kaboodle. Let me know if you make one!