Warning, get the tissues ready!!!

As I was posting my 3 words last night, I had the T.V. on, was not really watching, and I'm not even sure what channel it was on, but this video clip caught my attention. After blubbering like a baby, I hurried and finished my post so I could go to find out more about this story. I have watched this numerous times, and I still get teary eyed after watching it. I just spent this whole evening watching the whole story in parts. If you are touched as much as I was it's not hard to find out more. There is even a recent interview with the two fellows that was envolved, and just listening to them tell it again after almost 40 years, you can tell they truly had love in their hearts! I'm only posting the short clip, but there are many different one's on You*tube, along with the whole story.
Amazing!

3 words

Yep, it's that time again!

At first I was NOT looking forward to Lily going back to school, and on some levels that feeling is still lingering, but then the screaming and the fighting and the CONSTANT bickering between my two girls just pushes that little feeling into the hidden corners of my mind!!!

We went shopping for her school supplies a couple of weeks ago, and got all that taken care of. It seems like whoever I talk to about school supplies is somewhat shocked at the little amount of stuff we have to buy. I guess we live in a good area, we had heard this was a good school system before we moved here, and this is one of the main reasons we did, but at that time I did not know how good it was until last year. My sister has told me horror stories of all the things they have to buy, and the fees that each class has to pay, that was for her first grader last year. Anyway, here was the list for this year at Lily's school.

12 glue sticks (white or purple)
3 boxes of 24 crayons (regular size)
1 8-pack washable markers (no neon)
4 packs of sharpened #2 pencils (40 total)
1 single subject spiral notebook (wide rule)
1 composition notebook (wide rule, no grid)
2 packs of pencil top erasers
3 plastic folders with prongs and pockets, 2 paper folders without prongs
small plastic supply box (6x9)
First Grade writing supplies (purchase from local school $3.00)
1 pack of 8 dry erase markers (fat)
1 watercolor paint set (8 colors)
1 ½ inch 3 ring binder (white with clear pocket on front)

I'm not quite sure yet what the First Grade writing supplies are, I went up to the school and asked, they just said to ask her teacher. Oh well, it's only 3 bucks.

Well, tomorrow we are off to meet her First Grade teacher, and I'm a little nervous. I have many friends who are teachers, and I don't want to offend anyone. We liked Lily's Kindergarten teacher, on a personal level. But we had several small issues last school year, and even though she was nice, I'm not so sure she was the best teacher for our Lily. Did Lily learn, YES, she is supper smart, and was above the charts in all areas, but we had some issues that we just marked off as adjustment issues, seeings how that was THE FIRST TIME she has ever been in that type of environment, she never was in daycare or even any type of mother's day out, she's always been with us, or at least someone in our family. Not that she is shy, on the contrary, she is a very independent and outgoing child. She just was not used to the whole listening to orders, and following directions thing. As for the teacher, she was young, probably has only been teaching for a couple of years, and goes strictly by the book! I'm sorry, but not all children learn at the same rate and on the same timetable. I don't think she got that. It's funny cause at first I was relieved that she was young, I did not want some old bitty in there being a witch to my precious angel. Now I'm not so conserned if it is an older teacher, and actually hoping that it is someone with many more years of teaching experience. At least someone who understands that each child learns at a different speed than others!

We shall see soon!

Since you asked

Well, to answer a few questions, I figured I'd make an entire post about this. I was going to just make a comment, but then I thought I should post a couple other photos as well. So here goes.
Yes, I did paint the character on our cornhole boards. He is quite cute if I do say so myself.
The picture that I posted before was just of the little fellow, but here's one of the whole board. I got the demensions on line, so it is made according to the standard 24 x 48 inch boards. The hole is suppose to be 6 inches, but when DH was cutting, they ended up being a tad bigger, not enough to make a big difference though.
It took me a week to paint them, and I REALLY (really!) wanted to put "cornhole" on it in funky lettering, but when I drew it out, it didn't fit well, I should have put the square with Mr. Corny (y'all help me think of a name for him, PLEASE!) up a little higher on the board, then it would have worked, but oh well, I like it enough this way.
Now, I'm thinking of how to make a score board. I've got an idea, but we shall see!

Does this help?
























Now, on to my little fellow. I was looking at different things online, we are not huge sports fans, so I did not really want to put a team logo on it. I thought about flags, and found a confederate flag I liked, but then I could not find a union flag, so onto something else.
Well, my girls like the Veggie Tales, and I thought it would be cute to make a kid friendly board, so I made this little guy to look like them. I used Larry the cucumbers eyes.
My DH (upon seeing them for the first time) said "Great, we're gonna get sued by the Veggie Tales"
No, they don't have a corn character I already looked that up!
So anyway that is how I got the idea for our game, and I had fun doing it too.
Of course, painting the kitchen just isn't as much fun, although I'm diggin the color, but you'll have to wait to see it!

See the resemblance?
















On a side note, this is kind of a funny story. We live in a subdivision, and we are in the middle of a culdesac, so our yard is really wide, but the only down side we have is the neighbors in the back. They are on the close side. When we first moved here, I planted some trees along that fence, and eventually they will get tall enough for a privacy thing, but anyway. They are nice enough people I suppose, it is a couple about our age, but they don't act like they want to be friendly other than the occasional wave. They have a pool, and are outside all the time in the summer. Well, I had my boards out under our back porch to paint them, so I'm sure they saw what we were doing, they have a two story house, so our current privacy fence does not do much, hence the reason for my planting the trees.
Last summer they had pool parties quite often, and I had just mentioned this morning that they really have not had many people over this year. I spoke too soon!
They had a party this afternoon. And guess what they were playing?
Yep, CORNHOLE!!!
This is the first time I have seen them playing it, so I'm pretty sure it was not their's, probably one of their friends, but I just thought that was too funny that I just made ours, and they are now playing it too!!!
~Be back tomorrow~