Monday, March 14, 2016

The Silver Linings Playbook

After I finished reading The Lunatic Cafe, I took a small break from the series and read a book, that I have been wanting to read for a while. I decided that I wasn't going to watch the movie without reading the book first and I got tired of waiting.

I already had a idea of who the actors played, so it was easy to picture them in the story, along with Pat's dad. To be honest, this book was totally different from what I was expecting. It's about a guy named Pat and he is in this mental health rehabilitation center.. for what, well you have to read the whole book to find out. He gets released into his mother's care and he is only focused on one thing, getting back to his wife Nikki. He calls their separation apart time and is trying to do everything that she wanted him to do in their marriage. He talks about his friend Danny who was also in the "bad place". He gets back into the spirit of the football season and his therapist ends up being a die hard Eagles fan.

His best friend from before reconnects with Pat and introduces him to Tiffany, who is played by Jennifer Lawrence... love her!! Tiffany has problems of her own and she tricks Pat into her dancing routine. When all is said and done, he finally remembers why he got sent to the bad place in the first place, and why apart time began. I won't spoil it. In the end, Pat and Tiffany!


Sunday, March 13, 2016

Library Haul #29

There is a lot of books in this haul, and some of the books will carry over into next week for Easter.

1. The Easter Egg Adventure

2. A Catered St. Patrick's Day
 I didn't pay attention when I was picking books to see that this was a novel. I have made a decision that I will read this book this week and put the review up on St. Patrick's day instead of my normal Happy.... post.

3. Alvin and the Chipmunks Easter Collection

4. St. Patrick's Day

5. Easter Surprise
 I got this one for Addy to look at

6. What your second grader needs to know
 Already getting ready for next year.

7. Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day

8. Easter Mice

9. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover

10. Easter

11. St. Patrick's Day

Sorry that there wasn't much talking in this post. These are getting very boring, but it is exciting to look back and see what books we have read so far this year.

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Freebie Haul 3/7- 3/12

This week was an amazing week for freebies. I am getting back into my missions for the review sites I participate with. I am going to be doing a magazine purge SOON!! They are piling up.

Monday: One freebie today. It made my magazine pile grow by one.
April 2016 issue of Martha Stewart Living

Tuesday: Goodies Galore!!!
Salonpas

Goldfish Whole Grain Pretzel crowdkit

Premier Protein dark chocolate mint

Wednesday: I got one freebie today and Addy got the other one.
Redplum coupon inserts. I look forward to these every Wednesday now!!

Dolly Parton Imagination Library book: The First Strawberries

Thursday: More and more magazines!
April 2016 issue of Seventeen magazine

April 2016 issue of Women's Health magazine

April 2016 issue of Men's Health magazine

April 2016 issue of Cosmopolitan

Friday: I got one magazine.
April 2016 issue of Wine Spectator

Saturday: I got two amazing goodies today. *squeal*
Vanilla Premier Protein shake

all Powercore laundry pods from Smiley360

Friday, March 11, 2016

School Week 30 Recap

This week felt like the longest week ever. It seemed like everyday, we would do everything that we would normally do and I would have two more hours left of the day with nothing to do it seems. Ariana started her spelling unit that will continue until the end of the year. Sammy is still working with a calculator and will be working more on money and time the rest of the month.

Monday: We started the morning very late. It blew my entire day out of wack and I blame this for throwing my entire week into chaos. Morning work and quiet time was the usual and then the rest of the day was computer work. We also started using the Little House workbooks again, unfortunately the Little House website hasn't been updated and is incomplete.
they both watched this video again. 

Sammy playing an addition game


Ariana made a spring rabbit for the letter R.

Tuesday: We had a normal start time for the day. Morning work was followed my dominoes. I am also going to start Ariana on her domino math on Friday because she is doing so good with adding with pictures. Then we read library books.

After reading, they had their own little quiet time. I didn't read with them today because I was out of my zone. I wasn't focusing on much. I was stressing because today was the day that our legal battle was finally over and that we would be getting our settlement finally. No more doctor visits, no more lawyer meetings or phone calls. To end the stressful day, we watched Tinkerbell and they discussed it with me at the end and drew pictures.
Sammy doing her chore of watering the mint and basil plants.


Wednesday: With having a stressful day yesterday, today it took a toll on my health and got me really sick. I pushed on through though and we got the day done. The girls did their Dr. Seuss coloring pages that they were supposed to do last week.
doing their morning work and Addy was coloring in her Minions coloring book.


They had separate quiet times today. It helped a lot. Ariana went first while Samantha did copywork and workbooks. When they switched, Samantha read out loud during her quiet time while Ariana did more computer work. To end the day, we watched the second Tinkerbell movie.

Thursday: 40 more days left of school!! Morning work and quiet time was the start of our day. I didn't take many pictures today. Sammy spelled her sight words with her long forgotten caps and she did some St. Patrick's day word searches. Cayce ended up buying her a word search book while he was out today, so she is going to be working in that for the rest of the year.

Ariana worked on her handwriting and she started her spelling word unit today and that will continue until the end of the year. She is doing the same words that Samantha is working on. Samantha also did some review pages out of her Little House workbook and I made some addition and subtraction problems for her to complete.

Friday: Today was full of workbook and computer work. Samantha also started in her new word search book that Cayce bought her yesterday and she loved it. Ariana did a ton of workbook pages and her quiet time while Samantha was doing her word search.
Ariana cutting out her itsy bitsy book

samantha doing her quiet time right after her word search


Samantha doing workbook pages and Ariana was doing computer work and more workbook pages. Today was a productive day, but it was stressful. I know we will have a lot of work to do next week because of St. Patrick's Day.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

#Extraordinary Hair by L'Oreal!

I am so excited to talk about my 3rd Influenster voxbox. It is the L'Oreal Advanced Haircare Extraordinary Oil shampoo and conditioner.

First off, so totally surprised that I got full size bottles. The spray bottle is Lustrous Oil Serum. I haven't tried the serum yet, but I have tried the shampoo and conditioner. The shampoo made my hair feel volumized and the conditioner made it feel smooth.

The scent was great and it made it seem like I had just stepped out of a salon. My hair looks healthier and it's not dry or frizzy.

Thanks to Influenster for letting me try this voxbox.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Polyvore Outfit #6

This set is called Oscars Night. I came up with this while I was watching the 2015 Oscars. I love this look. This is what I would wear if I ever got invited to the ceremony.

1. Sunvary Ball Gown
2. Giuseppe Zanotti Pump Women
3. Miadora 14k White Gold 1/4ct TDW Round Diamond Wedding Ring Set
4. Black 16g tribal fake stretcher spiral horn swan wing
5. The Conch Shell Braid!—

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Home Depot Workshop

Today was a makeup day for the girls. They got to build little wagons for their workshop today and this is their new favorite place for workshops because they get to paint. We haven't been to the last few Lowe's workshops because of Cayce's work schedule, but we are going to be going to another one of those soon.



focused



happy kid

After the workshop, they also went by the library and picked up this week's books. When they got back home, they did quiet time and chores for the rest of their school day.

The next workshop that they will be going to will be another home depot workshop next month. They will be building a butterfly box and that will definitely fit into the unit that I have in mind before Samantha's birthday next month.

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