Team TLC movie night for January 21, 2012 – Walt Disney’s It’s a Small World of Fun, Vol. 1 (amazon affiliate link) was our pre-show movie!
★★★★★ – Thomas and Lillian loved this! Another where our theater (aka my bedroom) was filled with laughter! We watched the first two shorts, “Flying Gauchito” and “In Dutch”.
Lillian having lunch! Little light reading about Albert Einstein (Famous People) (amazon affiliate link) while munching away. Then she read a great little book titled, Smart About Money: A Rich History (Smart About History) (amazon affiliate link). These two crack me up! Yes, I do purposely get them these kinds of books; but I don’t make them read ’em. They choose to read these awesome books! After she finished we headed to the library.
Team TLC is on our way to the library. Watch out, we’ve got THREE bags with us ready to load with books and movies!
One of Lillian’s favorite places. She loves going to the library. Thomas and I do too. Every 3rd Saturday, you’ll find us there!
Thomas found a nice little spot too!
South Valleys Library has a cool little path and garden area behind the library. A local Boy Scouts group built it as one of their projects years ago. I think we are just about the only people who use it. This is where you’ll find us after we’ve loaded up with books and movies!
Indulged tonight in a yummy hot dog with a side of Guinness! This was so very good!
Then it was Team TLC movie time!
January 15, 2012, Sunday, I am grateful for:
A Team TLC stay at home day.
A nice warm house to be inside of while the wind is blowing pretty darn hard outside.
Feeling the force of the wind.
A day spent in “comfy clothes” all day long.
January 16, 2012, Monday, I am grateful for:
The opportunity to make my own schedule.
The walking trail behind our house.
Having a park within walking distance.
Nature and her beauty.
Walks with my kids.
Heat to warm my fingers when they are so cold they hurt!
January 17, 2012, Tuesday, I am grateful for:
Patience.
Listening to my gut.
Electricity.
A heater that decided to work again while we were at Lillian’s therapies! Baby it was cold in this house . . . 54 degrees!
Unexpected money in the mailbox when we had just spent our last $20 on groceries and the gas tank was nearing E!
Kelley McDaniels of Simply Delegate.
Pizza delivery.
Quiet.
January 18, 2012, Wednesday, I am grateful for:
Thomas’s kindergarten teacher . . . Kim O’Connor.
Reno’s amazing cloud formations.
Friends who give selflessly.
Kymberlee Simantel.
The elderly woman in Walmart I was able to help. She couldn’t find her chips on the shelf. Only one bag left laying flat, pushed back and too high for her to see. Made her SO HAPPY! I floated on down the aisle after that!
Thomas hugs.
Sneaking kisses on Lillian’s forehead.
January 19, 2012, Thursday, I am grateful for:
Supportive friends.
Shelter when the wind is gusting to 70 miles an hour!
The firefighters, first responders, volunteers, police and everyone who worked so hard helping and working on the Washoe Valley brush fire today.
Caring friends.
Life.
Love.
January 20, 2012, Friday, I am grateful for:
Thomas’s kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Kim O’Connor.
Friends.
Brian Benson.
Rain.
January 21, 2012, Saturday, I am grateful for:
Slow Saturday mornings.
Smell and sound of coffee brewing.
Smell of bacon cooking.
The library.
How much Thomas and Lillian love going to the library.
Finally finding unsweetened almond milk – every grocery store I’ve been to in the last week has been out!
Dark Chocolate Almond Milk . . . Mmmmmmmmmm!!
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Hot Dogs.
Thomas stopping before he left the room, saying he forgot something, then coming up to me and giving me a big hug and telling me he loves me.
Fridays are Electronics Day in our house. Thomas and Lillian can use all the electronics they want with no time limits; including DVD’s and the computer.
But, we still had to get some work done first! Lillian had a math lesson focused on units. We’re working in the Math U See program. I love the concept of this.
Thomas was assessed today in kindergarten class to prepare his report card. He did fantastic. He is reading and comprehending at an end of second grade level. His behavior has improved a great deal too. Mrs. O’Connor is so proud of him and so am I!!!!
Sitting at my next desk creating tips for my new email newsletter; turned around and Thomas was dictating a blog post to Lillian for his website. He’s at the beginning stages of learning to spell so he still needs help with that part of it. Told him I would install a program for him where he speaks it and the program will type it for him. He LOVED that!
Thomas and I played a game of Parker Brothers – Sorry (amazon affiliate link) after dinner. Board games are so nostalgic for me. I grew up playing them all the time with my cousins. We had a ball and it was my FIRST time winning against him!
After that Thomas went back to watching one of his favorite shows, Popular Mechanics for Kids: Lightning and Other Forces of Nature (amazon affiliate link). He watches this over and over. There are quite a few in the series. I can’t understand why they stopped making these. The website isn’t even around anymore. He devours them, over and over and over!
Finished the final edits of my book, “D iz for Different – One Woman’s Journey to Acceptance” and sent out to some test readers today! Shooting for having it in hand by my birthday on February 26th!
A wildfire in Washoe Valley took up the rest of our afternoon and early evening. It moved quickly up 395 North headed our direction. Seems to have stopped just short of our area. Both Thomas and Lillian were pretty freaked out. They happen to be looking out the sliding glass door right before we were headed out to run an errand. They both kept saying there was a fire and I kept telling them it was just dust from the wind blowing so hard. I finally realized it was a fire when I smelled the smoke.
We left to run our errand and passed police vehicles and buses that were headed to Damonte Ranch High School. The emergency alert announcements were playing on the radio and this heightened Thomas and Lillian’s worries. The upside and downside of having technology savvy kids; they were both on their devices looking up information about it and getting more freaked out! At least I know they’ll know what to do in an emergency.
I had the news on for a while on the one news channel we get as I don’t pay for any cable or satellite services. Had to turn it off as Thomas was glued to it. Little dude had his coat on, his favorite toy and had already looked online and found us a place to stay for $29! And it didn’t help when we could see the flames nearing Mt Rose Hwy!
They had both finally calmed down by bedtime. Thank Goodness! Before bed I read The Twelve Days of Christmas in Florida (Twelve Days of Christmas, State By State) (amazon affilate link) with Thomas. Fun book. Thomas read the book and he actually sang the book to the traditional “12 Days” tune. Then I read Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? (amazon affiliate link) with Lillian. Warm and cozy book. Just right for a bedtime book.
Thomas made a tornado today at Kids Zone! He was so excited. Amazing how such simple things bring such great joy and excitement. One water bottle, some gold glitter and a little dishwashing liquid! Shake and spin!
Had a little Team TLC date at Yogurt Beach tonight! Thomas had vanilla and chocolate custard with chocolate on top and one of every topping! I had the vanilla and chocolate custard with coconut! Delicious!! Lillian doesn’t like ice cream or frozen yogurt so she had a cookie when we got home.
Before bed Thomas and I read a few pages in How Nearly Everything Was Invented (amazon affiliate link). This is an incredible book. We’ve checked it out twice from the library! Hope to get it for him one day soon!
Thomas found some snow in the parking lot! Silly boy!
A Team TLC Stay at Home Day! We had some strong winds . . . thought some wind pictures would be FUN!
Thomas did some origami and made a cup all by himself! This little book is great . . . Paper Magic The Art Of Origami (amazon affiliate link). We’ve also made the pinwheel and Lillian and I made a fortune teller. It’s a great little book PLUS it comes with the paper.
Then it was Family Reading Night!! One of my favorite Team TLC adventures! Movie night is my other favorite.
And before bed Thomas wrote a post titled “Things I Like Best” in which he mentioned his little stuffed animal puppy. Go Thomas Go!
Team TLC movie night for January 14, 2012 – Love the oldies !The Parent Trap Two-Movie Collection (The Parent Trap / The Parent Trap II) (amazon affiliate link)
★★★★★ – Thomas and Lillian liked this one but about half way through got restless. It failed to keep their interest the remainder of the movie. Although they had moments when it captured their interest again and they both said they really liked it! I loved it!
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Team TLC movie night for January 14, 2012 – This was our pre-show, Classic Cartoon Favorites, Vol. 7 – Extreme Adventure Fun (amazon affiliate link)
★★★★★ – Thomas and Lillian loved this! I did too. My bedroom was full of laughter!
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