I am on a ‘make trees out of stuff that’s around’ kick at school. This was an early morning build with the kids tht come very early. More trees to come!
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I felt a little like Ralph.
I had a meeting tonight, and during the whole thing I felt like my eyelashes were catching on each other. I was rubbing my eye fairly often and they all probably thought I was getting weepy.
At home, I looked in the mirror and one of my top eyelashes was pointed completely down! What the what! No amount of coaxing would make it stay up, and hairspray was out of the question.
I cut it off. *Jibblie* …scissors near my eyeball…. just like Ralph….
God must have had fun making hermit crabs.
Just go to this page and watch the video. Totally worth it..
Magnificent!
A while back, a former coworker sent a text asking if we wanted some pieces of tree trunk from her yard. The answer was yes! of course! but I forgot all about it.
Today, while on the playground, a huge truck pulled up in the alley. On the trailer were two enormous pieces of tree trunk! We had a blast watching them unload them.
First the children got the area ready. We moved all the logs and tires. We like the ‘junkyard’ look on our playground. Just kidding, but we do have lots of neat things that you can move around to build stuff.
Here is the space prepped and ready to go.
The kids were so excited to see a skid loader in action. It took about 10 minutes to get the stumps in place.
All ready for climbing and jumping! Woo-hoo!
Remind me to eat this tomorrow.
I had to go to WalMart to pick up 4 things: Litter, tv, taco shells, tomatoes. Litter, tv (for the toddler room – theirs died), taco shells, tomatoes. Litter, tv, taco shells, tomatoes. Litter, tv, taco shells, tomatoes. Ooo! Get a Heath bar, too, to put in ice cream like a Blizzard!
I came home with litter, a tv, taco shells, and tomatoes.
Dang it. So I figured ‘how hard could it be to make toffee’? A quick google search said you just boil sugar and butter together with a pinch of salt! Well, it’s harder than you’d think. This was my first attempt:
This pan is too shallow. I didn’t stir it as it melted so they never incorporated and I burned it. Nice.
The second attempt was better, but I was impatient. I didn’t get it hot enough so it’s more hard caramel than toffee, and it doesn’t have enough chocolate on it. In my opinion, the toffee should be thinner than the chocolate.
I spread the chocolate after it melted a bit,
then put it in the fridge to harden. By this time I was mad because it was well after 7, so I wasn’t going to get to eat this.
Chop, chop, chop. Stir, stir, stir. (See banner photo.) I put too much ‘toffee’ in for the little bit of ice cream I had in the pint, so I put in some of the ice cream we were supposed to take to Sam and Rachel’s on Thanksgiving. Sorry, guys.
So, I guess I’ll have ice cream for breakfast to test it. If only Little Lauren could see me now -I’m living the dream!