PINKALICIOUS

Pink is Mary Claire's favorite color (how cliche). We bought the Pinkalicious book today about a little girl who eats so many pink cupcakes that she turns pink. We just had to make some pink strawberry cupcakes in honor of it.

Read the book three times while they were baking. Ok, Mary Claire and I read it three times and Ben was playing with legos.

Bookworm

Mary Claire has recently started licking her finger before she turns a page. They pick up on EVERYTHING!

2/3 Yr.-old Bible Class: Sneetches

Katie and I are teaching the 2/3 yr. olds on Sunday mornings this summer (Mary Claire's class). We came up with a neat idea, and I'm so excited about it I am going to share it with you! Each week, we are going to read a Dr. Seuss book and talk about what we can learn from it about being Christians.

I downloaded some "Dr. Suess font" and put the following up on the wall in big letters:

Follow God when you're in a box

Follow God when you're with a fox

He's your master here or there...

God is sovereign everywhere!

He's our God, our precious lamb;

The King of kings, the great I AM!

What we did this Sunday:

Story: We read The Sneetches, which introduces us to Sneetches with stars on their bellies and Sneetches without stars on their bellies. The Sneetches with stars won’t play with the Sneetches without stars until they learn a valuable lesson that they are all the same inside, where it counts.

Lesson: The moral we brought it back to was that no matter how different each of us are, everyone special to God.

Bible Verse: Psalm 139:14 "I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well." We colored a picture of the Sneetches with the verse on it.

Take Home: I made and cut out little circles to help them remember what we learned and pinned them on their shirts (see picture).

"Hope doesn't put food on our table"

The Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill, as passed in the House (currently being considered in Senate) would DEVASTATE my community, AND unnecessarily increase the prices that every single American pays for energy (gasoline, electricity, groceries, and everything else that fluctuates with the price of energy).

We need everybody to let our senators know: Waxman-Markey has it wrong! Reject Waxman-Markey and come up with something that addresses climate change without crippling the economy of the heartland!

http://www.eldoradonews.com/Blog/2009/07/21/lowery-testifies-before-congress-today/

http://www.arkansansagainstcapandtrade.com/

What were you doing on this day in 2006?

I was getting an epidural. :) Mary Claire is 3 years old as of Monday (7/13). Had a little celebration for her this weekend. Nice to pause for a moment and reflect on how much fun we're having.

Here's your Chance...

Representative John Lowery Jr., Chairman of the Citizens Against Cap and Trade, has called a press conference tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8 at 11 am on the east side of the Union County Courthouse.

Lion Oil's Vice President, Steve Cousins, and others will talk about the regional economic impact of the Cap and Trade bill. Please spread the word and take 30 minutes out of your day Wednesday to learn more about what this bill would mean for our community.

Have you completed my poll (see right side of page)?

And become a Facebook fan!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arkansans-Against-Cap-and-Trade/99941029230

I chose not to die on this hill

Among all the many things Mary Claire likes to sleep with, I thought her latest request deserved a photo.

Twins Separated at Birth

I just now realized that Amy Adams, who in my mind starred in all the movies listed below, is not just Amy Adams, but also Isla Fisher. Okay, not really, but you get what I'm saying. I thought this was the same person until today.

• Enchanted
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Definitely, Maybe
• Wedding Crashers
• Night at the Museum II
• Miss Pettigrew

Now that I realize there are two of them, I pick Amy Adams as my favorite, because Enchanted is my favorite of the movies listed above. Isla can be her stunt woman. :) However, they're obviously equally talented, since I was comparing "Amy's" acting in Definitely, Maybe to her role in Enchanted the other night. Don't they look just alike?

Lawn care

Looking for someone to mow/weed eat my yard every other week that won't charge a ridiculous price and will actually show up. Any suggestions?

If you're thinking about suggesting the guy I live with, don't. I already told him I'd pay him $30 to do it and he said no. :)

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Best thing since sliced bread

Now this is American ingenuity at its best - we need to put the guy that invented this on the energy crisis.
I use real butter for cooking, but margarine has been pretty much the only effective choice for buttering bread and things like that.
I happened to come across this in Tuesday Morning (what a pointless name for a store that is obviously open more than just Tues. Morning) and bought it out of curiosity. Guess what... It totally works and does exactly what it says it will do - just put a stick of real butter in it and twist and the butter comes out in a thin ribbon. We are not going to buy any more margarine! Such a cool product - everybody needs one of these!
http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/butter_dispenser.html
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