Day 5 was Sound

Hello Friends!!
Look at that you got a capital letter.
Come on, let's face it...you deserve it for stopping by to read for a bit.

I can honestly say that I did not have time available to write on Friday.
I did find sound to be a tough sense to bring in the thanks with.
It seems that most sounds that get my attention are annoying or distracting. So, turning those feelings into thankfulness made this quite a challenge.

I found in the "senses thankfulness challenge" that my sense of sight is the one I depend on.
It is the one that comes most naturally to me, and I am betting for most of you as well.
I do find myself being constantly thankful for things that I see, especially because of all the amazingly wonderful, creative things God puts before us each day.
Well, anyway, I hope that got you out of your box a bit to be thankful and near to God.

Hey, while you are here let me change the subject and tell you about a few things!

First and foremost...something happened and my camera is back to being friends with my computer! I am not sure what the problem was, but I am sure glad they got it worked out.

Secondly...

Yummy! Chocolate covered pretzels! This is insanely easy to do and they turn out so pretty and leave people begging for more!
Simply melt the chocolate, (slowly in the microwave, stirring often)
coat the pretzels, (you may need to use a spoon to get it on there good)
let them dry on wax paper (this takes quite a bit longer than you might imagine as you stand there waiting to devour the first one, to make sure the taste is just right because you wouldn't want to send something crazy weird tasting with your kid to school, especially since it is a new school and you want people to like her snack, especially since it is not some of those cupcakes with all of the insane icing that stains everything)
and eat. (No explanation needed)
I added sprinkles to this bunch because it was the treat going with my daughter to school, and you know how kids love sprinkles!!


Mmmmm chocolate and sprinkles!

Thirdly. Wow, thirdly is a very strange word.

I decided to do an oriental themed birthday party for my little shnookums! I readily admit it was because I was at Target and the dollar spot had all this uber cute oriental stuff covered with the pretty shiny fabric and it got my juices flowing on an idea. Not to mention it was all on sale! Half off of a dollar is too good to pass up!


So, this was the party favor! A cute little "to go" box, a bracelet, a notebook and fun dragon pen for writing, and the pretty headband which was a total hit with my girl!!

I think she is planning her outfit for the day around this headband!
She's only 7, should this be happening already??


I knew I wanted to play some sort of games with rice, so while I was at Sam's the other day, shopping with my 13 year old who was liberally giving advice, I chose the 25 lb bag of rice.
You know, so that I would have plenty of rice for whatever we might want to do, and enough to feed the entire neighborhood for 3 solid weeks should a disaster strike.
Yes, it was way way way too much rice.
Did I ever tell you that my oldest child has a strong penchance for rice??
He was thinking with his stomach on this purchase, and I was not thinking at all.
At least it was cheap!!

We played a few games with rice, but this was my favorite! It is the fourthly thing that I want to tell you about.
As a birthday present to my little darling, I cleaned her room.
It was "the mommy" kind of clean up!
The "dump everything in the middle of the room and start over" kind of clean up.
The "why in the world is she keeping this" clean up.
The "fill a sack with what looks like trash to me and take it out before she gets home" kind of clean up.
I had a secondary mission as well. I was on the look out for small objects to make a game with.
Check out what I found.

I split these things up and put them into 2 jars filled with rice, then printed off this search and find paper. The goal is to shake around the jar looking for items and cross them off as they are found.
I gotta say, this was so much fun!!
It is frustrating, but in a way that propels you on to search for yet another item!

And now fifthly!
I took huge liberties with this next thing, but loved how it turned out.
I found each party attendees name in Chinese.
I then sketched it out on a piece of paper for each child to paint at the party.
I think they all really enjoyed having this little "craft" time, while seeing their name in a different way.
I wanted these to have a traditional (as far as I could remember) feel, and did the characters running down the page. I have no idea if it is right or not, but liked the look of it.
I also found a neat dragon stamp, which brought in that little touch of red to work with the red string.
One of the moms hung one on a tree to dry, and it was such a neat look that we kept going and then ended up with this shot of it.



Sixthly, I just can't imagine that seventhly is actually a word, but I just had to type it out anyway!! Say that 4 times in a row!!!
seventhly seventhly seventhly seventhly
Ahhh Ha Ha ha! It is the little things that just thrill me!!
You know what??? Have a great day, I am gonna!