Best friends

Have you ever been truly jealous of your child?

I have.

And it all revolves around her having a best friend.

At 2.

He's also 2.

And they seriously love each other in a way I hope to have a friend love me one day.

I have friends, I even have best friends.  People I would die for.

But there is something about this relationship of theirs that just sparks such a twinge of jealousy in me.

Want to know another thing?  I'm pretty sure my kiddo has more than one bestie.  Honestly, she makes friends so easily, but she seems to just connect with kids in ways that just... astonishes me!  Every time!

And everyone, it's really hard to be jealous of your kid.

really

fucking

hard.

But here we are.  She sees her bestie a couple times a week, though I think she could see him every day and still want more time with him.

I just hold hope that as they age and grow, their friendship will continue.

Because when you can you've been best friends since you were 2?

That's something special in life.

A little vacation

Well we just got back from a little vacation!  We enjoyed a little time away and it was wonderful.

Needless to say there will be no other blog posts this week.

I just wanted to let everyone know!  I will have new ones up next week!

But this week we are in recovery mode and getting the house cleaned up mode!

So have a great week!

Here is a pretty sunset picture going over the mountains.  Ignore the dirty window, it was snowy and salty out there!  

It's mounted!!

The husband's parents gave us the awesome housewarming gift of a new TV.  Our old TV was losing pixels and honestly we haven't found the remote since we moved... but hey it still works!






Anyway, they got us a pretty new TV.

And the first request I made to him was to please mount it on the wall.

I am terrified the kid will break it.  And if not her then one of the many children we have through here at any given time.  And I don't want anyone feeling bad because their kid broke our TV.

So it took 4ish months, but dammit, it's mounted!













And everyone is pretty happy with it, except baby girl.  She's not a fan that she can't stand at the gate and the TV be right in front of her.

That gift

 When you get that gift.  The one you are ashamed to admit you love so much because it's associated with less than scientific information...

Well I got that gift.  My friend gave me a salt lamp.

And let me just say

I LOVE IT!

It's so pretty.  Look at it's glow.

No I don't think it'll cure my of any ailments... that's not how the real world works.

But it sure does make me feel better because it's pretty to look at.

And the kiddo loves it too!

So yay!

The holidays are upon us!

We aren't big holiday celebrators.  Honestly, we forget most of the time until someone reminds us!

This year however, we started off the Christmas season with a bang!  We went to a local-ish tiger sanctuary!  They had a really cool drive thru holiday décor thing, plus you could see the animals, ride a carousel, and my personal favorite: MAKE SMORES!

Yes, you read that right.  I went for the smores.

The rest stresses me out.

Anyway, it was cold, kiddo loved the carousel, and the smores were delicious.

But you aren't here for me to ramble.. you want pictures.  So, here are our adventures!

Look up top!  That is a tiger in there!!

I think tractor Santa and fishing Santa were my two favorites. By far!

We also got to see a lot of animals.  The white tiger could possibly be a liger, we were unsure.  And the orange tiger was intensely stalking the kids.  It was very creepy how intense he was.  Needless to say, I felt like I should move on and give him the respect he deserves.  So we did.

We did ride the carousel twice, but those pictures didn't turn out.

A beautiful accident, however, was some of my light pictures turned out like art pieces.  I am so amused by them!

And of course, all the stuff to do, and baby girl found the lightbulbs the most interesting.

All in all, a decent experience!  

Book Review: How Children Learn by John Holt

So I've finally finished How Children Learn by John Holt.  

I really wanted to love this book.  So many homeschoolers sing the praises of John Holt, like a homeschooling guru.  I had so much hope for this book.  

And I hated it.

Not the content so much.  It was kinda interesting to read his perspective on things.

But the format was so fucking annoying to me.  

And maybe it's my dyslexia rearing it's ugly head.  Maybe I found it difficult to read because of how he formats things like a diary.  Maybe I just don't care to read other people's journals...

Any of those things are an option.

But Honestly I found it so hard to get through the entire book that I was focused on the difficultness and really can't speak much to the actual book.  

I don't remember what I've read.  And to me that is a sign of a badly written book.  

I take that back.  I do remember that he stresses that children are natural learners who don't need abstract concepts to learn.  They need concrete reality.  And I agree with that.  

But that's what I took away from the book.  And while that is an awesome take away, I already knew that.  That was already something I believed. So really it was no help to me.

And I'm so sad about this.  I wanted to read this book and give it to my husband as a book to help him understand why I think homeschooling is the best option for us.  

But this was not the book for me.  

I encourage you to still check it out!  I mean, perhaps you can read these diary style entries and find them easier to follow.  

Lazy Sunday

One of the best parts of the weekend is the lazy Sunday, right after baby girl wakes from nap.

This particular Sunday she decided grapes and YouTube videos were in order.  She watched her favorite YouTube family and ate some yummy snacks.

She was so enthralled by the new video posted.

And of course, Bea was by her side!  Grapes, good videos, and Bea... life is complete for this one!