Stair Slides

Today I was playing around on Pinterest, when I saw some pictures of slide/stair combinations. It sent me on a search. I love collecting things for my dream home, and I have found that while I want my dream home pretty, it must also be kid-friendly. I have discovered that in our culture we forget about kids, but the truth is that they are everywhere and want to be into everything! I would love to have a home that my children enjoy just as much as I do, and I figure with a bit of planning and creativity, it might be possible.


So, without further ado, I give you the awesome possibility of combining stairs with slides! I will start with my favorite.

Big enough for an adult? I should think so! 

I like that the sides are tall, so the children won't fall off... without some serious effort on their part...

This is my second favorite, for those who want straight stairs.

Well, there are my stair-slide picks for today! You can be sure I will add more as I find them!

The School of Life Mastery

With the craziness of school starting, I decided to take the leap and sign up for a class I have been excited about for 2 years. I signed up on Monday for the School of Life Mastery and I am loving it! These are the online classes for Leslie Householder, the author of the JackRabbit Factor. This book had a profound effect on my life, and I have since read all her other books. I have taken the Orientation class and Lesson One. I am wanting to really absorb the classes, so I am taking it slow (even though I feel like I want to run through them all and gobble them up!)

I am also rereading the JackRabbit Factor, since that is part of the "homework" and I am reminded what a wonderful parable it is!  So, for right now I am signing off to go on to Lesson Two, but I just want to say I think I want to teach this kind of stuff! I love it!!!!

Hurrah for Abundance...

Life and it's craziness

So, yet again it has been a long and crazy time since last updating my blog. Scott and I have moved to a two bedroom duplex that my brother, Nathan, bought. We moved in the weekend before school started, so it has been quite the last few weeks!

Danny is officially school age now, so I have been actively home-schooling him for three weeks. We are working on his reading and writing skills right now, and then I will be adding numbers and math next week. It has been a lot of fun to sit down with Danny (and Tiana joins in most of the time) and I am learning about how to keep it fun for a 5 year old.

We wake up in the morning, and after we clear breakfast down we do a quick clean of the house. Dishes and toys picked up, we have scripture study together before hitting the kitchen table for "school." Danny and Tiana are also doing a performance class called Stages once a week, where they sing and dance. So far, so good. All in all, school is usually finished by 10 or 11am, and the kids play and I unpack our home. I am just starting to put pictures up on the wall! Meanwhile, my camera broke, so pictures will be harder to post... I have to figure out how to do it from my phone.

The Mark of a Pen

The kids had just finished lunch, and I was washing up Loralei, when Tiana came in looking like this!

Danny had drawn on her to make her look like a cat, and he did it fast!

Even after I cleaned her up, the scratches remained.

This made me wonder if J.K. Rowling had a similar incident with a child, and if this was the inspiration for that evil pen in book 5 that left scars!

Whew, sometimes Life comes at you fast!

I finally published the last post. It has been waiting for me to press a button for almost 2 weeks now!

After Loralei was finally feeling better, we had 2 birthday parties in one day, followed by Easter, and FHE with my family. Then Chiya came down to visit, so we have been spending all our spare time with her. She is going to Virginia for the next year, and taking my sweet sister Cheyanne with her!

In the mean time, I am still trying to recover at my house. Flying away, trying to do my routine every morning before I jump in the car for more errands and other plans. The last place in my home to recover is the kitchen. I have a revolving mess of dishes that still hasn't been fully washed. I manage a load or two, but somehow cannot seem to get it all done at once. I am dreaming of the day I can live somewhere with a dishwasher...

I am very grateful for our place, it is cosy and is fast to pick up. The kids play, and there is grass and a little playground for when it is warm outside. I will look back on this time with many fond memories!

Well, that is my 15 minutes of computer time, now to see if I can get those dishes done!

Earaches, not fun.

What a week! Saturday night Loralei started having a fever, and it just kept getting worse and worse. Tylenol and Ibuprofen didn't work to take it down, and she was just miserable. Finally, on Tuesday we took her to Dr. Allen. He checked her over and didn't see anything obvious, but gave us something for her clogged nose and to help the fever. He wanted us to come in on Thursday, and told us that if she got worse to bring her in immediately. We gave her the medicine, and for the first time in three days, she acted normal. She crawled around, getting into everything and laughed! It made our hearts happy. She fell asleep, and slept all night long!

Then, she woke up miserable! I brought her into the doctor, to find her ear drum had burst in the night. Once we knew what it was, a round of anti-biotics solved her sickness. What a relief! I was beginning to worry that something more serious was going on.

Danny's Style.

Yesterday my children were still in pajamas, so I told them to get dressed and we would go check the mail. Excited at the chance to be outdoors, they both ran laughing to their room. This is what Daniel was wearing when we went outside. I laughed so hard!

Notice that his Spiderman Suit is under his clothes...

Tiana, in the background, was also the picture of style!

My Little Photographer!

Daniel had been stealing my camera, and taking some pretty awesome pictures! Here are just a handful, for your enjoyment.

Tiana

Me

This is an awesome balloon. We have had it for a month now, and it is still floating!

Our lamp. I didn't do anything special, this is what it looked like when he took the picture!

These are Danny's super hero guys. He arranged them for the camera.