Craft #1

I'm not committing to anymore posts. I have some great plans for some fun crafts with the boys this week, but I do not know how many I'll done.

But these are the first. They are chocolate covered marshmellows rolled in goodness. I am not a big fan of marshmellows but the ones rolled in nuts are yummy.

The boys got hermit crabs this week. They really freak me out but I will post pictures tomorrow. Cody will be bathing his today.

Merry Christmas

I'm stealing this idea from my cousin. Merry Christmas & this is your Christmas card.

I have no update on the Blue Screen of Death - still getting it at home & not at the computer repair place & still do not know what's causing it.

Blue Screen of Death

This is what my computer has been doing for the last week. The problem had been getting progressively worse, but it would make my computer reboot. Well this problem kept occuring & my computer was set to reboot every time this screen came up.

I have a friend that fixes computers & they refer to this screen as the "blue screen of death". They told me that the name is worse than the real problem but I did not believe them. My computer was doing this just once a day but it go so bad it was doing it every time I turned the dumb thing on. So I took it in yesterday to get fixed. I was there 30 minutes and the screen never came up. So, he fixed it so it would not reboot & then this screen would stay up & I could get the code from it so he could trouble shoot from there. Well, as soon as I got home the blue screen of death came up again. So I called & gave him the code. He told me to bring it back so he could check a couple of things. I took it back today & I was there for over an hour and it did not show up & everything he checked was fine.

Long story short he narrowed down that it was "enviornmental" and asked me what all I had plugged into my computer at home & when I told him, he informed me that it was my wireless mouse. And sure enough it is. BUT I am not sure if the whole mouse is the problem or just the fact that it needed a new battery. Because the light has been on for a week that it needed a new battery. But when I got home & turned on my laptop WITHOUT plugging in the wireless mouse it still gave me the blue screen, I had to actually take out the battery before it fixed the problem. I have not put in a new battery yet because I am afraid. I will try it tonight. Wish me luck, otherwise I will be getting a new mouse.

OOPS never mind all that - I still just got the blue screen of death - NEXT???

Citizen of the Month

Brayden was Citizen of the month for November, for his class. Every class chooses a citizen. Every month they have a “character word.” November’s character word was Citizenship. Which meant being loyal to your country. I asked how Brayden demonstrated being a good citizen and he said that he did not know. At least he is honest. They have the same character words every year & he has never been citizen of the month before so I guess some how he showed good citizenship.

My guess is that in October & November they did a lot of studying of the elections. And Brayden seemed very political, so maybe the teacher saw that & realized that he was loyal to his country by being so active in the political system. Or something like that. But seriously, he was very interested in the elections.

Leftover Night

I have been a bad blogger because I have been sucked into the Facebook world.

But last night was our first of many Left Over Nights. I do not like leftovers therefore I do not keep left overs. I guess I also thought that if we were going to eat leftovers then we needed enough of one meal to re feed all of us again. But the other night I was somewhere where we each picked out which leftover meal that we wanted. What a novel idea. It is weird how we just think in a box sometimes & the simplest ideas are right in front of us.

SO, last night & every Wednesday night will be left over night. It was as to be expected. Mediocre at best. I know lots of people that just eat left overs when they do not feel like cooking. And when I do not feel like cooking I microwave a dinner or some easy thing. If we ate them when I did not feel like cooking, I would not feel like eating left overs that night either. Looking forward to next week!

Do you eat left overs?