Boo Pops

Tonight we made ghost lollipops. Very easy, very fun. Just melt some white chocolate chips or vanilla candy wafers, and, using a spoon, spread into ghost shapes (or whatever you like) then use mini chocolate chips for eyes. Makes a great FHE activity.

Nate made a charlie brown ghost and Toby made "Skeletor".

Here's some of the finished ghosts stuck into my dead rose wreath.

Here's Hazel smiling again. (I'm not fond of this stage.)

Playing Beauty Parlor

Hazel's hair was looking a little scraggley. So I gave her a cute little bob, stacked in the back, with a slight a-line. I was quite excited with the end result. I thought she looked adorable! But I am a little biased. Anyway, shorter is definitely easier with Hazel's hair.

New Vibrations

Yes, there was a similar post a year and a half ago--same band different venue. We caught Collective Soul at Stubbs BBQ last night. They have a new songs out, and with all the hit songs they have, it was a great concert. This year, instead of being up with the chain smokers, we were up with the drunk college students. Yeaaaahhh, Duuuude, Wwwaaaaahooooo! Yeeeeah, dude, more beer!

Smile!!!

This is what Hazel does when you ask her to smile. Not very pretty. But it makes me laugh every time. We tried 5 times to get a picture of her last night. Sometimes you just gotta accept defeat.

WOW

Click on the photo to see the whole story. It is pretty cool.

Good advice

I have had this quote stuck to my fridge for about 2 1/2 years. But only recently rediscovered it's relevance for my life today. (It's been buried beneath the school lunch menu, phone numbers, birthday invitations, various reminders, cards, etc.)

"Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read... Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, ...increases the authority of the body over the mind'".

------------------Ezra Taft Benson "In His Steps", 1979 Devotional Speeches of the Year


Just something to think on.

YUMMMM!

Hazel knows first hand why it's important to help her mom.