Thornton Mom

I asked Maddie to break up her pancake.  It took about 5 min. to do one.  She how meticulous she is.  Our 2" of snow turned into 4 days of missed school.  The kids were supposed to do a make up day Saturday but that was cancelled as well.  It is amazing to me that they justified missing that much school because of the snow.  Our friends. Friday we invited friends over and spent most of the day doing melting beads.  It was a huge hit.  They turned them into necklaces and went around being super heroes and their powers were determined by what melty bead creation they had made.  I spent the day ironing melting beads.  It was nice for all of us to enjoy friends and have a fun activity to do together. John Derek was mad about something so he laid on the floor.  He picked the perfect spot right on top of the vent. Yesterday our Church put on a Woman's Day for our Stake.  It was wonderful.  I am sur...

I was looking in a catalog yesterday and saw a game that I really wanted to play.  It was the game of pool played with golf balls and golf clubs.  I was so excited that I decided to make my own version with things I had around the house.  My son John Derek helped me.  We gathered as many small balls that were of simmilar size as we could find.  We were able to get 11.  We then put tape around half of them for the striped balls. Then we went and got yogurt containers that I had keep for just such a need and cut a U shape in them for the golf holes.  We made six of them. We then went in my sons room and set up the game. Away we played.  I hate to admit it but he did win.  We did have fun and it was good to spend some time together on a cold winter day. Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 5:2 "2 For she had supposed that we had perished in the...