This winter has bee unusual for Long Island, we have had one snow day all winter. Lately we have had mid 40 degree weather, which is not bad. So we have been taking the kids to the park lately.
Even though it’s chilly the kids still enjoy themselves!
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I recently bought a dry erase activity book to help my 4-year-old learn to write his letters and numbers. We can’t afford preschool so we will be teaching him at home.
I just love this activity book, you can write over and over again since it is dry erase, and there are east traceable lines.
I think he did pretty good for his first time. He ha declared to me that he loves learning though and I am so proud of him.
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It’s been really weird this winter, we have not had any snow at all. It has actually been really warm in Long Island. Well we finally had our first snowfall on Saturday , we got about 4 inches of snow.
The kids still got to have a lot of fun.
A couple days later now all the snow is gone and it is in the 50′s again.
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Living in NY the New York Giants making it to the semi-finals is a big deal and of course everyone will be celebrating.
It’s time to start thinking about what chips and dips you will be serving at your Superbowl Sunday party
Frito Lay Corn Bites:
2 cups frozen sweet corn, thawed
1/2 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1/2 avocado, sliced
Juice of half a lime
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
1 cup Tostitos Restaurant Style Mild Salsa
1 bag Fritos Scoops! Corn Chips
Combine all ingredients except for the chips and toss well in glass bowl. Let sit in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to 1 hour before spooning mixture into Fritos Scoops! Corn Chips and place on serving dish and serve immediately.
Are you as excited about Superbowl Sunday?
I have a Frito Lay prize pack to giveaway to one lucky US reader.
this pack consists of 3 Touchdown Serving bowls and a bag of Fritos Scoops corn chips
I am giving away an additional 3 gift packs, but the 3 additional packs will be for Football plates instead of bowls.
To enter: Tell me which team you are rooting for? and please be nice everyone has their own team.
Extra entries:
Like No Time Mommy on Facebook-10 entries
Giveaway ends 2/3 at 12 pm
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Am I going to call them New Year Resolutions? No! Mainly because they always get broken. Instead, I’m going to just put myself to the challenge of new things, for this new year. Last year I tried a lot of these and failed.
New year though and I am determined.
1. Quitting soda, I am a sucker for soda and it’s been very hard to break. I am determined to break this habit.
2 Weight loss- This is something I have struggled with for a couple years now. This year I want to reach my goal and keep it off.
my goal of 35 lbs. Hopefully by Blogher 2012
3. Expand my Blog and biz, while I don’t think I’ll be one of these bloggers getting 50,000 visitors a month, having at least maybe 20 K would be nice.
I would love to be able to go to more events this year and make a lot of money on my blog. I don’t see it happening, my husband is still in college, working on his PHD and that is my #1 priority. Making sure he succeeds, and I have to stay with the kids all the time. Which is okay by me, because it seems like whenever I am away, I miss a shining moment in their life.
So here is to 2012, I don’t want to change my life. Just make it better for my kids.
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My house was a total disaster after Christmas, toys, clothes, paper etc. everywhere.
This was only a little part of the house.
My house stayed like this all Christmas and most of the 26th. There was just to much stuff and not enough organization. So I braved the crowds for after Christmas shopping and bought a Closetmaid bin organizer, on sale at Target for $39.99.
We have had one for a long time, but needed to as another, yes we just have that many toys. Plus I wanted to be able to put some books in the living room, as well as some other toys.
So today , I put the kids to work with me. Hubby is at work. We took down the tree today and got to cleaning.
The end result I am very satisfied with.
Now if I can just keep it like this until New Years. After all my mother always said, a dirty house on New years is a dirty house all year. LOL
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Well “Santa” came, even though my kids are still confused on if he is real. I told them the truth, but the movies and their friends say otherwise.
Santa came and he was way to good to the kids.
and the back of the tree
The kids apparently got everything that they wanted! they each had about 27 presents each, between santa, family and friends. That is about 80 presents, that is crazy. I told them, next year we will go on vacation and do 1-2 presents.
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An award just before Christmas break!
She got to be Star sudent for the month of December. She was so thrilled. She said she earned it by being respectful!
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We attended my Husbands work party yesterday. It was mainly for the kids and was really fun. The kids each got to take a picture with Santa
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4 years ago today, I was in the hospital ready to be induced and finally hold my baby boy. It was a very rough time as my husband had finals in two days and was worried bout my 2 daughters at home. Baby finally decided to come out in the afternoon!
I was more worried about him after he was born, because he didn’t cry and I heard a snap as his shoulders past. Luckily he was perfectly fine and it was me that snaped, my body couldn’t handle a 10lb baby.
Yes I said 10 lbs.
William at 3 months
He has grown up so fast, I can’t believe it. My baby is 4!
Happy Birthday William, I love you!
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