haiku Wednesday

Okay. Haiku based on a current event in my neighborhood. A big water pipe broke in our elementary and school was canceled for today. Tomorrow they are sending 1 and 2nd graders on a field trip, and sending the kindergarteners to have class in the community center.
The grades that have their classes upstairs will be unaffected. Even though my son's classroom is upstairs they already had a field trip planned for tomorrow.
(I hope my daughter is okay in a new environment... crossing fingers....)


Water floods the school
Classes resume tomorrow
Today we are bored.

or

Water floods the school
Classes canceled for today
Splishy Splashy Sploosh!

or

Water floods the school
An unexpected day off
Watch movies, play Wow!

or

Water floods the school
No tears from students falling
A day off to play!

or

Water floods the school
Classes resume tomorrow
Soggy day at school...

Maybe I'll start writing on Tuesdays and Thursdays?

I've been thinking about making this into an lolcat pic. But, I need a good caption.
I've thought of: I luv mah teddy bear! or Hug teh feet! Hug teh feet!
or maybe, Stop right there foot! or The foot stops here.

I went Visiting Teaching the other day and I used the conference talk by Elder Ballard about mothers. I LOVE that one of his points was to find one or two interests or hobbies that ENRICH you and give yourself time to pursue them. (of course, he also said to not waste time looking at the internet :)
Of course, being a Jack of All Trades and Master of None makes me have TONS OF INTERESTS! It would be hard to only pick two interests.
I guess then I should say, Thank goodness for being chronically ill... if it weren't for that holding me back all the time I would have SO MANY pursuits! And perhaps my family would be left behind in my dust!

I would love to learn woodworking and build furniture. On big garbage days I look at all the
wood/old furniture people are throwing out that I could reshape and refurnish and make beautiful again!

Oh yeah, I wanted to learn how to shape stone too. And maybe weirdly, would like to make my own headstone. I want it to look like a stack of books, or an open book?

I REALLY need to learn how to can fruits and veggies. People say, "Oh, I just made freezer jam... yawn." like it's easy. I need to learn how.

I wish I could be an animal researcher and know more about cats than anyone else in the world.
I always thought it would be really awesome to volunteer at the zoo and work with the big cats and maybe the sloth!
AND THEN I could write a definitive book on cats and sloths and be rich and famous! :)

I would like to try my hand at being a psychologist and delve (with permission) into the psyches of people and help them FIX problems. (however, I've often thought I would worry too much about people and it wouldn't be a good job for me)

I would like to be the person who types in the INFO for the cable t.v. company. Whoever does it now doesn't know WHAT they're typing about! I'm such a t.v. person that I know a little bit about everything and I know a LOT about some things.

I WISH I could read every single book we own. (I'm going to need to count them to make that sound more impressive... I mean, I just counted the books I can see from here and there's at least 176 so far.... and there's WAY more downstairs and a book shelf or two in each bedroom too!) ALSO, at Barnes & Noble I made a list of at least 10-15 books I WANT to read.
Too many books, not enough time.

I've always wanted to rebuild a 50s car... and make it nice!

I've also loved to teach people. If I had enough energy, it would be cool to be a teacher.... but, in the younger grades when hopefully you have some influence on teaching them manners and kindness for each other.

I've ALWAYS loved languages. I'm sad my Japanese is going away, leaking out of my head drip, drip, drip! I wish I could learn: Spanish (would be the most helpful to me!), Chinese, Korean (so I can understand what Jin and Sun are saying on Lost :), Hebrew, German, French, Swahili (since we have a bunch of refugees in our ward who speak that), and the Burmese language too (since we have a bunch of refugees in our ward who speak that too).
Hawaiian would be fun to learn (popoki means cat in hawaiian), Russian would be interesting too.
I find myself gathering words here and there in all the different languages I come across.

I hate the down and dirty of politics so, maybe I could be the first Dictator of America and fix all the dishonest and crazy things that happen in D.C. and divert bribe money to teachers and poor people? In case that Dictator of America doesn't work out, perhaps it would be cool to be really involved in my community and perhaps run for City Councilwoman?

I wish I had enough energy to work on my house and get rid of my kitchen's stupid Dairy Cows border and hearts and sheaves of wheat wall paper! I can see how nice my house looks in my head. My kitchen in crisp Royal Blues and white and silver. SoccerGirl's room with Jungle murals like she wants. My shoe hall looking like a small forest. My room either Japanese or Medieval. Livingroom like a library. Downstairs livingroom with thick green carpet and the ceiling painted like it's tree tops and blue sky! (you know, to match the knotty pine on the walls)
Finishing the faux painting on my Dungeon room downstairs.
I have dreams! but, no energy (or money!) to fulfill them.

I have books I want to write.

I have cooking techniques I want to master.

Crochet techniques to master and a ton of wonderful things I could sell on my Etsy site.
(CrochetBagLady on Etsy) This is something I could be working on... just got to get going on it!

So, that's enough for today. I'm sure that after I get off the computer I'll think of some more things I want to do.... or could do IF I wasn't chronically ill.

Can you pick only two interests or hobbies to do?

Sick and Tired and Busy! Oh my!

Okay. I've been sick EVERY Weekend for the last 3 weeks! with someone in my little family.
It's nice to take turns, but, this is Ridiculous!
Something has been written on every day of the calendar so far this month.
This Thursday is the first day on the calendar without anything written on it!
That's my excuse. So, now that I find myself recovering from being sick and finding some time, here's a little catch up.

Photo Friday:
This past week or two my little tree out in front of my house bloomed. It's such a precious thing because that's about all I get, a few weeks of beautiful pink blooms.
The other day the kids proudly announced that they had taken sticks and beaten my poor little tree in order to make the petals fall on them. They love it and think it's beautiful. I'm sure it is beautiful but, HEY! my tree! Those blooms don't last for long! Be nice to my tree!


Writing Wednesday:

Breezes blow gently
My kids beat my tree with sticks
Pink Petals float down

If anyone reads this who knows about trees.... what kind of tree is this anyway?

Crochet Friday:

My crochet project of the month so far has been a carrying bag for my son's beloved Oreo.

We lost Oreo for a few days and my son was inconsolable. We finally found him (in the house so he was safe the whole time. whew!) and I made a little spaceship for him to live in and for him to be more findable.

Does it look like it's a spaceship firing up it's boosters and ready for take off?
He loved it by the way... and now my daughter is starting to want bags for her little stuffed animals like my son's. Well, as long as I never have to make a tuxedo for a big-medium sized stuffed animal, I'm happy to make small items and bags for the little stuffed animals. :)

Mmm-Mmm Monday

My dad went to the Franco-Belgian Mission. While in France he learned how to make crepes. SO, he made crepes for us on Mother's Day. I learned how to make crepes, and eventually allowed my husband to learn how to do it. I even have a crepe pan from France.

My kids have discussed finding another holiday to eat crepes on ... perhaps July 14th for Bastille Day? (french independence day and my brother's b-day?)

Here's the recipe:

Crepes

2 cups All Purpose Flour

4 Tab Sugar

1/4 teas. Salt

3 cups Milk

4 Eggs

2 Tab Oil (or melted Butter)

1 teas. Vanilla

In mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Beat with a mixer until smooth.

Lightly grease a 6 inch skillet or bigger (it's good to have two pans going at the same time for maxium output of crepes and fewer grumpy people waiting for crepes. :).

Heat pan till water dropped on surface sizzles. (just under medium is a good temp)

Pour in about 1/4 cup of batter for a smaller pan and twice that for a big skillet.

Lift and tilt skillet in a circular motion to spread the batter evenly.

Return to heat and cook on one side till very lightly browned. Loosen crepe by running a spatula around edges of crepe. Turn it over and cook for a few seconds.

Invert pan over paper toweling to remove crepe.

Repeat with remaining batter, greasing skillet as needed.

With my 1 big pan and 1 small pan I can make 13 crepes. 2 small pans would probably produce closer to 30 crepes.

We like to put the following in our crepes: Strawberries and Whipped Cream, Nutella and Bananas, Chocolate sauce and Bananas, Blueberry jam (or other kinds of jam) with powdered sugar on top.

Good luck or should I say? Bon chance!

Is it Wednesday or Thursday? Let's pretend it's Wednesday...

Here's some extra Haiku to make up for it being Thursday...
(let's hope the spaces stay where I put them!)

Though sick and tired
Life continues moving on
Take a deep breath, breathe.

I'm Zombie Mommy
Through sick and tired I serve
Yawning all day long.

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Spring is here, kind of
Flowers struggle under snow
Yellow under white

Snow falls from blue sky
Sun shines down while the snow falls
Nature is confused!

Spring blooms in glory!
My head and nose exploding
Allergies once more.

(This is what it looked like outside my door this morning.)

I could write Haiku all day... maybe next week I should challenge myself and either try to write a story using Haiku OR actually write a short story (which would challenge me!).