Necklac-Lee

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Love is ...

When the mailman knocks on your door and delivers THIS ...

A HUGE package full of love!

Chocolate, German Kleenex (don't laugh, they are THE BEST!!! for tears and sniffy noses)

and treats for the Ls.

My baby sister is SIMPLY THE BEST!!!

She sent LOVE covered in chocolate ...
she knows me oh-so-well!

My wonderful sissie had rescheduled her entire 2011 vacation time to come in September, right after baby was supposed to be born.
Well, now the poor thing is stuck with 3 weeks of us with no baby :(

And what does she do?
She offers to watch the Ls so we can go out and play.

She sends us a Gift Certificate for a weekend-get-away without the Ls.

I LOVE MY SISSIE!!!

Du bist echt die Allerbeste!!!

... thank God she sent the Kleenex since I sure needed them after reading this!

Oh and this ...

YUM!!!

for the tears :)

Happy Lulu with her new blow-pens

(it only took me one hour to figure out how they are supposed to work. )

Testing the heavenly stuff right then and there.
... of course!

More YUM!!!
BIG YUM!!!

and YUM

and YUM-YUM

I know all my German friends will totally understand the excitement in my house right now.
For my American friends; just imagine living in a place with no Mac and Cheese, no PB&J, no Big Mac or no dim-sum and sushi ... get it? Yes?
... and then you get it all in a box, delivered and sealed with a big kiss and hug from your baby sister FAR-FAR-AWAY.
Life doesn't get much better!!! Does it?

I love you Jule!!!!

DANKE!!!!

A Rainbow of Crayons

Two days ago L came home from school with a broken crayon.
I was not happy and told her she could not bring the crayons from school home, they belong to class.
But then she explained that:
"Mama, Mrs. O said it's OK because we throw the broken ones away anyways."
My comment was:
"OH NO!!! Don't throw them away! Tell Mrs. O to collect them and we'll make something out of them for class."

Well ... 24 hours later L came home from school with a "few" more broken crayons ...

Her school bag was so heavy I could hardly lift it.

My comment: "WOW!!! OK. ... I guess we better get to work then. "

First we tried shaving the crayons, placing them between two sheets of wax paper and melting the crayons onto the paper with an iron.

I am starting to really like my new camera!

Thanks Love!

I think parchment paper would have been a better choice of martial, the wax paper did not hold as well as I thought, BUT we still managed to make some pretty hearts for display.

Then we decided to make "something new out of something old" and went to work ...

CZ Crayon Factory now open !!!

After A LOT of peeling and breaking and mixing

and melting

we ended up with this

L called them the Jay Crayons :)

I LOVE the fishes!

I tried to mix various shapes of the same color and they turned out quite nice.

The top corner right fish is for Mrs. O, red and blue for correcting homework :)

L LOVED the flowers!

So colorful and pretty!

L brought the new creations back to school today to hand out to her class mates.

I wish we could have done this with the whole class ... what a fun science project that would be!

And we still have a "few" crayons left

Oh what, oh what will we do with them???

I am sure we'll come up with something ...

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Love is ...

When your 3 year old decides that "I HAVE to make a cake for Lillie before she comes home from school Mama, P-L-E-A-S-E!!!!"

Well of course we had to and thanks to my "pantry-hording-issue" I had just the RIGHT STUFF!

How to make a "LOVE Cake"

Oil the pan

Pour mix in a bowl or pot ... whatever the little baker desires)

add one TBS of oil

and one egg white

Stir vigorously until your arm gets tired (after 5 seconds)

stir some more with the other arm

TASTE the STUFF ... "not bad!"

pour in HEART SHAPED pans and taste some more

and taste more ...

FGM, please note the outfit :)

Pose for some pictures because "Mama, will you put this on the blog so everybody can see what a good little sister I am and they all are going to say "awww ... she is so cute" to me?"

... seriously, I'm not making this up ... she DID say that!!!

The Ls are VERY aware of the blog and it's promotional powers :)

Hydrate

Pose some more and make a really silly face

lick the pot until there is ABSOLUTELY nothing left

see your two master pieces after they come out of the oven

Race to school to pick up L and tell her ALL ABOUT your big surprise even though Mama said it's a secret and we won't tell her ...

Come home and start icing and decorating

(we were getting ready for some acrylic painting and the Ls were properly "dressed" for the occasion. Acrylics DON'T come out of clothes so we (well they) paint in the nude ...)