I forgot...

Holy Grail = Paul Mitchell Fast Form

Love this stuff.

Story of my life...

Here's a story with a moral: Never ever bring my kids to a college bookstore. Ever. Actually, this applies to nearly any store, but today's story involves a bookstore.

I went and turned in some papers, and got my school ID card on Monday, and I decided to get my books too, since I was there. Insanity ensued.

First of all, who in their right mind buys stuffed animals with their community college logo on it? Why do they have toys in the bookstore? I do not know, but I do not agree. Bad idea. The girls ran up and down isles, grabbed toys, pulled down books, screamed, and cried. I was so embarrassed. Aimee has started throwing herself on the floor, face down when she is upset. While at home, I find this funny. In public, I find it mortifying. To top it off, as I dragged them to the check out to buy the books, Katie stopped whining long enough to ask me for a treat. Um, no.

What saved them was a tv screen on the floor. They stopped and stared, and they were quiet. I used to think screens on floors were silly. Now I know- they are magic.

Now that I have my school books, it marks the end of my summer reading. I have been reading like a crazy person, knowing that after reading textbooks, reading isn't going to be fun for a while. I read three books last week, and I still have four more I wanted to get to. But I started reading a textbook instead.

Last night I had a sudden craving for home made noodles. I have made them before and I am totally in love. They aren't very hard, and they're only a bit time consuming, but they taste so good. Instead of using white flour, I tried semolina flour, and it was just so good.

I made them into bowties just for Jon :) Huge bowties.

Katie had her first ballet class last week, and it did not go well. She sat on a stool and refused to do anything most of the time. So we have been practicing all week, and I have hopes that she will do better this time. My idea of her loving it and staying by herself was crushed, but I think we can as least work on liking it. Tomorrow is her next class, so we'll see.

Sept so far

Some exciting things happened/are about to happen. They are:

I got my hair cut last week, and I LOVE it! I didn't think I would ever love my curly hair, but I do. It is the best haircut of my life. I wash it (still with baking soda and honey, which I also love) and add some curly hair stuff that was referred to at the salon as "the holy grail", then I let it air dry. It is amazing. And so shiny! I love my hair! That sounds so very vain, but I have hated my hair for most of my life. These pictures are for my mom, and only for her would I put a picture of me with no makeup on the internets. The second one Katie took this morning, before I had gotten ready, but I wanted to show a picture of it less curly too, Anyway, there you go mom!

Katie starts ballet tomorrow. We are all excited for her. I am a little nervous that she won't want me to leave, and by extension hate the class. But it will be good for her. And she can't wait to start.
I start school in two weeks. I am finishing up my AA for now, since I have no idea what I want to do. I am thinking about maybe teaching, but it's a long way off still. It would be so fun to be a chemistry teacher, but we'll see. I am taking a swimming/aquatic exercise class, and I am super excited about it.
I guess that is it for now. I leave you with a picture of my cute little trouble maker.

Coast Trip

Here I am, finally blogging about our trip to the coast (#10 on the list). I finally stole Jon's computer long enough to upload and crop the pictures. My poor computer decided it's USB ports don't want to work anymore, hence not many pictures on the blog of late. Anyway, here we go!

The beach we went to, from up high.
This is Aimee about 5 seconds before she got soaked by that wave. She was not happy.
Playing in the mote someone else built.
Why I love Oregon:
Aimee chased birds most of the time.
Katie, me, and Aimee not wearing pants.It was really fun, and the weather was nice! We were worried it would rain, but it didn't. The girls played for a long time in the sand, and Aimee walked around with a cup full of wet sand that was too heavy for her to hold, but got so upset if I tried to take it. She needed a nap.
Thanks to Heather for going with us, and driving us! It was a fun trip.


And one more picture:
This is how Katie falls asleep most nights.