Random questions................

Random Questions to my daugher Fiona today who is six and in the first grade.

What is your favorite thing to do at school? Playing with Angel at recess.
What is your favorite color? Pink
Favorite food? mashed potatoes and croissants
What do you want to do today? Go ride my bike and go to the Beach
What do you like best about Grandma's Judy house? Seeing Grandma Judy and Grandpa Jim and going to the beach.
What do you like to do at the Beach? Playing in the sand and collecting stuff
What is your favorite Sport? Bad mitten and Soccer
Where do you want to live? North Bend
What is your favorite thing to wear? My coat
What is your favorite stuffed Animal? Ariel my Teddy Bear
What is your favorite thing about Ms. Shannon's Class? That our name is Rockin Polar Bear
What is your favorite Penguin? Emperor
What is your favorite Movie? March of the Penguins
What is favorite art project? Making a bug
Where is your Favorite place to go? Mexico

And my Daughter Aida who is four had this to say:

What is your favorite color? Orange
What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy? Clean up
What is your favorite thing to eat at lunch? Spagettio's
What is your favorite stuffed animal? Pooh
Where is you favorite place to go? Mexico
What is your favorite cartoon? Mia and Miguel and Dragon Tails
What is your favorite thing to do at Grandma Judy's house? Play with her


Fiona is studying Penguins at school and is really getting into it. We had her parent teacher conferences and she doing very well. Her Teacher said that she is very kind and will partner with anyone she asks her too. She is also is doing awesome with her reading. She has caught the bug! She is a very strong First grader in her reading and Math.
I have to add that Peek-a-choo is alive and well at our house.....(Very popular with the first graders) Sometimes it is enough to drive her mother nuts!

Snow Day a while back.....

Angela is my bestest friend. (Fiona's exact words) Aida, Angel, Fiona on the snow day we had a while back. They had so much fun! Mommy was happy too.

Making Snow Angels

Flower Snow Art

Life is fun when there is snow and no schoool!

Winnie the Pooh

Aida loves her Pooh. In fact, that is one of the reasons I call her Aida Pooh. Pooh is like another member of the family. Quite often Pooh is buckled into seat belt, has to have hand held at the grocery store, he talks, he has to have his own dinner plate, and he is Aida faithful sleeping companion. It is actually very sweet to watch. The other day Aida was very insistent that we do pictures of her and Pooh and of course she was hamming it up.

Valentine's Day projects

Some projects we did for Fiona's classmates. Play-doh for the boys and hair ribbons for the girls all wrapped up in cellophane bag with a sucker.

Paying it forward.......

I'm Paying it forward thanks to Heather. So here's how it works. Sometime in the next 365 days, she will be sending me something handmade. So to hold up my end of the bargain, I must do the same, for the first three people who comment on this post, who want to participate. The rules? You will get something handmade from me, maybe not anytime soon, but sometime with in the next 365 days. If you decide to participate, you must do the same on your blog, and make something for the first three people who comment to your Pay It Forward post. So cool, right? Can't wait to get started!

New Fabric line....

Check out the new fabric line at Grand Revival Designs.(See blog links) It is called French Hatbox and is coming out in August. I love the Barefoot Roses collection that Tanya from Grand revival designed, I have some fat quarters, but want more! She also has a new line coming this May.

If you can't tell, I really like fabric......I get a lot of pleasure out of it!

Today

Today would have been my sister's 37th birthday. I miss her a lot. Lately Aida has been talking about her and wanting to visit her, so I think it is only fitting that I tell her a little bit about her aunt.

Purple was her favorite color.
She loved bunnies. She collected them and she also had two pet bunnies that I can remember. One was flop eared bunny. She loved those bunnies. She had collar and used to take them for walks.
She liked popcorn with Taco seasoning.(Thanks Gidgett for reminding me of that.)
She was a good listener, and good friend.
She was fun and had a great laugh.
She was the good sister and always stood up for me, especially in high School.
She was creative. She was good at writing stories and poetry. In fact, I memorised one her poems for an assignment in my 8th grade English class.
She was crafty, she could always make the craft projects and they always turned out the way the pictures looked.
She was a scrapbooker and quilter.
She loved flowers. She did my wedding flowers.
She loved history, vintage and old things. She was keeper of all things.
She loved to read. She loved Disney movies.
She loved kids and had a special way with them. She taught swimming lessons for lot of years and always took the criers and they always loved her by the end of the two week lessons.(She would dunk them, too!)
She was a great Aunt. She played dolls with you, taught you and your sister how to spell your names by singing it.
She loved the beach and collecting shells and wood from her walks on the beach.
She loved music and making up songs.
She loved to cuddly.
She especially loved her giggy.(blanket) She always had piece of her special blanket with her even until the end.
She was the peacemaker