The Ultimate Lotion

The husband has dry, dry skin, all year long. The type of skin that just hours after he applies the heavy duty Lubriderm and Curel lotions it looks like he had never applied lotion in his life. The Prince and I only had minimally dry skin in the Winter only until we moves to NM, now we are a dry mess too!

I went on a Pinterest hunt and found various combinations of the lotion below and decided to settle on my own combo. Guess what?! It works wonderfully, hands, feet, whole body, small patches.. It works.


Here it is:
27 ounce bottle of Baby Lotion
7.3 container of Vaseline
2 - 4 ounce containers of Vitamin E

Through it all in a bowl, whip out your hand mixer, mix it up and put it back into the empty containers the supplies came in. To fill the bottle, put your lotion concoction into ziplock Baggie and snip off a bottom corner. Squeeze into bottle slowly!!

In the picture is a 13 ounce container of Vaseline. I only used about 2/3 of it. The rest I will use for lipgloss and eye makeup removal. It would be easier to just buy the 7.3 ounce size and use the entire thing.

Whatcha' been up to???

Let me know what's been going on in your neck of the woods! I would love to know. Here's a few things going on in ours:


I painted ANOTHER chair..I had a bit of green spray paint left and some of my new favorite blue left, so I painted my mommy/teacher chair. I only had enough green for on section and I'm on the hunt for a new cute cushion...but for now I am happy that it matches and it's much cuter (sorry, again I was to impulsive to remember to take a before picture.)



I saw the cutest idea on the Miss Kindergarten blog and I had the supplies...so VIOLA I made these "silent" dice. They are also very light so that mean less chance of them flying across the room when the Prince takes his turn :/...We used them this morning to play the math game Even Steven/Odd Todd and they worked liked a charm. We will be using them for family board game night too!



Also Miss Kindergarten loves to add ribbon, so she inspired me to "pretty-fy" the trash cans for our classroom and the hubby's office. Not sure how much the hubby appreciated it! HA!




The picture is the Prince frosting his carrot cake with his homemade creamchesse coconut frosting! This week, we made three desserts...YES!! 3...HOLY YUMMINESS...but also HOLY SELF-CONTROL so I don't gain 20lbs in one week! Good thing I had a couple of helpers in eating them. Here is the link to the  FRESH STRAWBERRY PIE I made!! First, let me give you permission for making this and eating it by telling you that it is only sweetened with honey and the crust is made with almond flour which is SUPER low in carbs...now run off and bake..and invite me over. **I used apgar powder instead of gelatin**

We love "craftivities" that are lesson related.  Yesterday, for our writing block the Prince made these gorgeous "I'm special because.." sunflower. His pedals read:
I have a turtle.
I have 2 dogs.
I am fast.
I am tan.
I am 4ft. 1 in.
This FREE cratifivity was provided by Mrs. Lemons!




Today, for our math block we had a game scheduled (mentioned above) but I saw this OH.SO.CUTE mathematician on Step into Second Grade and thought it was too cute to pass up and what a great reminder to our Prince that he is already a mathematician!! What kid doesn't like to use a big word when referring to himself?! Since we already had something planned that the Prince was looking forward to I just added this too our math block and for the sake of time I wrote all the answers that he brainstormed and then he created his lil' mathematician...HOW CUTE IS HE??!! Step Into Second Grade has an entire packet that you can purchase, it is adorable and looks like so much fun, go check it out.



Happy Friday Everyone!! Oh..this weekend I'm making vegan chocolate chip cookies and a pumpkin crumb cake...this sweet tooth needs to leave or I'll have start doing double daily workouts.

I love to eat.

Do you?

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Who Knew a Little Paint Would Lead to a Classroom Overhaul?

Last night, I was pooped. I have been using a couple of old shoe holders for shelving/storage in our classroom for a couple of years. Well, since I recently painted the table for our classroom, yesterday, I thought I would also spruce up the shoe racks as well; but, then something happened. I don't know how. Seriously, the next thing I know I'm cleaning, rearranging and reorganizing our ENTIRE classroom. This happened so very fast that I didn't snap any before photos of the classroom, but I did snap one picture of the shoe rack as I was taping it up.

Plain old shoe rack.

Spruced up shoe rack.

I have two :).

Their new home.

I know you can't tell, but each section or two contains materials readily available to the Prince,such as, manipulatives or other subject related materials.

Here are some pictures of our newly organized classroom. First, our main table and newly painted material shelves.

This desk used to be where the newly painted shelving/shoe racks are now. I moved it the the other side of the room and it is now the Prince's spelling center. He will visit this station almost daily and pick his spelling activity for the day. I am printing THESE FREE spelling activities, from Mrs. Lemons, and placing them into his "activity bucket." It is the bucket to the right of the crayons. Each day he will pick and complete one spelling activity. After snapping the photo I saw the abacus in the spelling center. It was relocated.

Here is my big ole' desk. I think it is to big and might get rid of it. Ignore the pile of dog on the floor, she follows her momma everywhere. Also, ignore the weights on the desk, this is also my Jillian Michaels' workout room and I snapped these pictures right before getting my butt kicked.

My white board where daily notes to the Prince are written or daily lesson plans. Various lesson charts are on the wall. The bulletin board is separated. The section on the left displays are biology chapter notes and the section on the right was cleaned of all old displayed work, so we can fill it up with more fantastic assignments completed by my Peanut.

The Prince ran in and wanted to be included :)! There you have it folks, the room that is used a lot in our house :)

Yay! My DYI Classroom Table and Chairs

For the last couple of years we have had a couch in our classroom. It has been wonderful, we read, we snuggled...we were comfy. However, I started realizing that a flat top table would be great to hold my coffee for the Prince and I to work side by side, with a large work surface.

So... on Friday morning about two minutes after the hubby left for work he called and said our neighbor had a table and four chairs in her driveway with a FREE sign on it... I quickly dressed and told the Prince to grab his shoes and meet me in the garage. We went and got us a free table and chairs :)!

Friday afternoon I bought fabric for the chairs. Saturday we sanded, painted and reupholstered. Sunday we put the chairs back together and brought it all inside.

The couch was moved to the playroom.

So how about a few pictures ? I so should have used my Cannon and not just the Iphone :/