Adventures in La La Land

1. She can sing her alphabet, but only identifies three letters: L, M (for mommy!), and O. 2. She counts perfectly to 12, then mumbles some random teen numbers until she hits 20 and then she can do 21, 22, 23, etc. 3. She knows triangle, square, rectangle, moon (crescent), oval, circle, star, and heart. 4. The reason she knows her shapes is because of the book Pa Grape's Shapes . She insists that I read it to her at naptime and bedtime, and has it completely memorized. It is amazing  to hear her quote it. I wish she'd let me videotape her . . . 5. She knows her colors, although she still struggles with red and green - especially green. She's getting better at red. 6. She's still completely obsessed with her Binky and Ellies. 7. She generally sleeps from 8:30pm to anywhere between 6 and 7 am. And she takes one, two hour nap every day. 8. She loves Lucy and calls her "my sister." The girls usually play really well together, although they definitely...

Something very sad and strange is happening . . . blogging is losing its allure. Hopefully I'm just going through a phase, but lately I feel like I just don't have anything to say. 1. This week was VBS at our church. I taught the preschool class because Lena cannot be away from me. The first day I only had 4 kids! It was a breeze! We eventually doubled our class size, but the kids were good and I had great helpers. I was given a curriculum this year instead of making my own. But it was still a lot of work to choose which crafts/activities to do and then collect/organize all the supplies, and make sure everything was prepped and ready. Lucy actually went to her class without me 4 out of the 5 days. There's hope for kindergarten after all!! 2. I made a new meal last week that was pretty good. I'm obsessed with bacon in pasta lately. Chicken Carbonara is my new fave at Olive Garden (even though it's like $18!). Anyway, this recipe is from the Plain Chicken blog: Ch...

You'd think I'd have a lot to share since I haven't done one of these in ages, but I've been fighting through a lot of depression and don't have anything real enlightening to say. 1. I've been watching Friends on Netflix. It's so weird to see shots of the World Trade center in their "skyline fly-overs." And it's weird to think these people are in their 20s. In the episode I just watched, Monica said she's 27. Were they really that age when they filmed the show? They seem older to me, but probably just because I know them as older now. 2. Books I read the past two weeks:   Love Finds You in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (Melanie Dobson), Tidewater Inn (Colleen Coble),  The Bride Backfire (Kelly Eileen Hake), Rosemary Cottage  (Colleen Coble), and The Wonder of You (Susan May Warren). The Pennsylvania one had some interesting history. It was about a sect of Christians in the 1700s called Moravians. They were incredibly mission oriented. They...