Pinewood Derby

Tristen’s pinewood derby was today. His car was awesome—a blue Lego with a Lego driver holding a Cubscout flag. :o} He came in third place as far as racing. Yeah! Go Tris!

Rowan and I worked on organizing the playroom. We built a shelf out of 6 boxes and duct tape. Way to reuse! Go Blue!----I mean Green (in a non-Spartan way)! Rowan loved the shelf and proceeded to take almost everything off it after getting it organized and filled. Yup, she’s 20 months old.

I was thinking about seed milks today, and was wondering why I had never read about a chia milk anywhere, so I decided to try to make one. I ground up about 1/3 cup of chia seeds with the coffee grinder, put them in the blender, and added a couple cups of water and a little honey. Two cups of water was definitely not enough, as it almost immediately gelled upon blending. I added two more cups, blended, and tasted. Hmmrrrmph. Didn’t taste that great and it was still kinda thick. A banana, some carob, and some frozen strawberries later and we had chia milk shakes! The kids scarfed ‘em down. Mommy did too! Try it – and get some extra and more absorbable calcium into your body. **Cheers**

Food for the kids today included:

raw goji-blueberry pancakes
bananas
raw carrot cake (Love the stuff!)
apples
spring mix salad with fresh herbs and garlic
pumpkin seed milk
chia banana strawberry carob “milk” shake

~~Sharilyn

Pretty Powdery White Stuff That Just Keeps Coming and Coming and Coming and . . .

Nice kitty . . . .

Five more inches. Two days ago we had two more. Another couple days prior we got about six. All on top of the eight or so that was already there, albeit packed down a bit. Then the pretty powdery white stuff blows across the shoveled drive and walk, cuz it’s powder. So we (I say we, but it’s usually moi.) shovel it off again. Actually I like to shovel when it’s so light. Muy difacil. Fresh air, sunshine.

Tris completed a bit more on his derby car and it’s coming along nicely. It helped that school was canceled due to the inclement weather. Then we worked on our project a bit more.

Rowan discovered Legos. Seeing that Tris had his bucket-o-Legos down so he could model his car after one, Rowan got involved. She loved the Lego train and would try to ride it. We also practiced colors. “Yellow” comes out “Oh-woah.” Then we sorted and built. Fun!!

Tristen ate:
raw strawberry pancake
pumpkin seed-banana milk
carob-avocado parfait with blueberries and strawberries and mulberries
slice of bread
banana
carrot salad with liquid aminos, onion, garlic, kelp

And Rowan ate:
raw strawberry pancake
pumpkin seed-banana milk
orange flax crackers
carob-avocado parfait with blueberries and strawberries and mulberries and walnuts
more banana milk, lots!
carrot flax crackers

“Mine is the sweet, sweet sound of my children sleeping.”

Luminosity,
Sharilyn

Camera Issues

My digital camera broke! I am seriously disappointed about this. The batteries died right after I clicked a picture, somehow causing a jolt. Now the computer in the camera won’t recognize new batts because it died before recording the pic and some how went bzzzzthp. The project I mentioned a couple days ago requires a digital camera, and now I’m not sure about what we’re going to do.I’ve thought about this so much—are higher powers telling me that I need to focus on something else? Is something else on it’s way? I’m not sure, but am up against a deadline of February 1st to complete this project, and I need a way to take pics. Until then, I guess I’ll just post older photos. I trust you Spirit.

Rowan has been so funny these last two days. Whenever I yell upstairs to Tristen or Rich they respond with a loud, “Yeah?” Rowan has begun imitating this, so runs to the bottom of the stairs and hollers, “Yeah??” whenever I call to either. She has such a pipsqueak voice normally, but can really bellow it out when she wants!! ~~giggling~~ Such a character.

Tris and I are trying to get his pinewood derby car finished for the race this coming weekend. Hopefully I’ll find a way to post a pic of the finished car. Rowan and daddy (well, just daddy) are/is furtively working on a car, too. Men can be so funny when it comes to wood crafts and build-your-own toys.


Today the kids ate:

sesame banana milk
oatmeal with blueberries
lemon-berry tarts—made with pumpkin/date crust, avocado-lemon filling, and berries on top
bananas
raw carrot cake
pumpkin seed milk

Tristen also ate some mixed nuts with gogi berries and a fresh out of the oven slice of bread.

~~~Tris, Ro, & Sharilyn