3-2-1 Cake

I went to weigh in today and I was hoping to maintain my losses so far, but to my surprise, I lost another .8 lbs.  That is a total of 23 pounds!  Woohoo!  I am thrilled. 

Ken remade these shelves.

Getting things on the shelves.

Ken went back to Harrah to work on the job he is doing there.  I did some piddling around the house today.  I worked on the bills, balanced the check book, and worked in the sewing room.  I did some painting, sweeping, moving around furniture, and loading some things back on the new shelves in the sewing room.  The skeins of yarn are all at the top.  I have so much yarn that is rolled up, I hope it will all fit in a basket that I have.  Then the material that Lindsay got on the bolts is on the next shelves down. There will be 2 drawers where the holes are.  Right now the room is so moved around and I can't get to anything, so I can't sew.
I am having a very hot hot flash.  I feel like I am just melting from the top of my head down.  AGH! It is so hot.  But, they come and go like Oklahoma's weather.  It won't be long and I will be chilly.
I talked to my mom this evening.  She is in a care center to recover from her knee surgery.  She is finally off the pain meds and can stay awake now.  She is not getting enough ice on her knee and I don't think she is doing her exercises like she should.  But I can't do anything about that, except take a deep breath and let it go!

Cake mixes in the baggie. 3 Tbs of cake mix &

 2 of water.

After microwaving 1 minute.

It is time to have some 3-2-1 cake.  We have devil's food right now.  It is just enough to hit the spot.  I took a box of devil's food cake mix and a box of angel food cake mix and put them in a zip lock baggie.  When we want cake you take 3 tablespoons of cake mix and mix with 2 tablespoons of water.  Then cook for 1 minute in the microwave.  Hence the name 3-2-1 cake.  Just enough to make you feel like you had a treat.  Today at ww they said it was 3 points.  Pick a flavor that is strong ex devil's food instead of milk chocolate, because the angel food tones down the flavor.  Enjoy!

New Material

Another week has passed.  I learned an interesting lesson today.  My popcorn sack was not in the PTA cabinet.   We didn't get popcorn.  Oopsie!  Sad lesson for my kiddos.  I have forgotten before, but the popcorn ladies have always made sure they had it.  I will have to be more aware.  Bummer!
We studied Kk & Ll this week.  We looked at ladybugs, leaves, and key rubbing.  The kids did a ladybug puzzle and it will go into their memory books.  We have a slow start on their memory books this year.
 I made up a book for my kiddos to practice writing the uc and lc letters.  I stole this from an idea to write the numbers to 100 that we used last year.  They get 2 minutes to write their numbers to 100.  They will get 3 minutes to write the uc and lc letters.  It is usually so quiet during this time maybe I should change that to 5 minutes.  HMM!
I had a little boy with horrible attendance.  I was told that the mother called and said that she was going to take him out and home school him for a year because she thought he was too immature to go to school.  To me that sounds crazy.  Well, Mom and Dad were at school getting him back in since he missed about a week solid.  Since I talked to them I think it was the grandmother who was keeping him and not sending him to school because he would cry.  He will do so much better at school.  I am excited he will be back on Monday.
My material I ordered for curtains for the sewing room arrived.  So cute!  I want to get in their and sew, but it is really torn up.  I have an order to make for a friend and I need to sew for the store.  I will be busy this weekend.
It was just in the high 50's this evening.  I had a fire in the fireplace.  We didn't have much wood in so the fire died out fairly early.  Boo Hoo!  But, I enjoyed it as long as it lasted!

Gross!

Today is a typical day in my life.  I sent a little boy out to put his binder in his backpack.  He was out in the hall a bit longer than was really necessary and I was about to go check on him.  He is easily distracted, entertained by unusual things, and always very loudly verbal.  Before I got out to the hall to check on him my friend across the hall said that she had a complaint from one of her kids that a tongue was going across their door.  My little boy was standing outside her door licking the glass.  Oh my goodness!  Gross!  So I thanked her for the information and called him over to my desk.  I proceeded to explain how many people touch that glass and how many germs there are on the glass and that he got all those germs in his mouth.  Well, he said to me that no he didn't.  I said what do you mean?  His reply was, "I didn't lick the top!"  There was just nothing more to say to that logic.
(He did get to clean the glass.)

September Is Great!

What a great week.  My class is going great!  The kiddos are getting along and I am already seeing some improvement.  Next week is planned, everything is copied, and I am ready!  I love my job.
Luca is getting along well in school and seems to be happy.  He went with Lindsay's youth group to Frontier City for the day yesterday.  he loved the diamond back roller coaster.  He has been very sore this last week from the work outs and swimming.
We got a good rain on Friday.  Saturday was very cool.  It was such a relief from the heat we have had.

The biggest pile.

New paint color-see where he is fixing the cracks.

Red room is FULL

Ken is redoing these shelves.

Update on the sewing room.  We got it painted, well most of it.  There are a few areas where he is still putting mud on the cracks in the ceiling and the walls. We got rid of the big desk, well it is out of the room.  That will give me more room.  Ken is moving the shelves and adding some drawers on the tall white shelves.  That is where I will put the bolts of material.  I found a neat storage for thread that I asked him to make.  I hope I will have enough room for all the containers with the shelves repositioned.  Everything is still not out of the sewing room, I just would paint a bit, move a bit, and paint some more.  The red room is so full, I can't put another thing in it!


 Update on the living room.  We got the new chairs in.  We got the carpet in and Ken installed it Thursday night.  I put the theater seats on Craig's List on Saturday and it sold on Sunday. We picked up the chairs on Wednesday a week ago and on Sunday 2 buttons had popped off.  Today the 3rd button came off my chair.  The buttons on Ken's chair are still on.  I have called the service dept., the fix it guy has called me, and I have returned his call.  Hopefully we will connect this week.