Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

We have only read the first chapter of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, but I can already tell this book is going to be a favorite with my girls.  How much fun is a little lady who was married to a pirate, lives in an upside down house and bakes sugar cookies for all the children in town?

We haven't started the second chapter titled "The Won't Pick-Up Toys Cure," but I thought we might give Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's tactics, uh, cures, a try.  We read that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle pretends that she's a beautiful princess and if she doesn't get the dishes washed and put away, the cruel queen will come and throw her into a dungeon!  Hmmm....my girl's room still needed to be picked up before bed.  I wonder....Yes! 

I promptly told my girls that I thought I heard a cruel queen coming and they should go quickly and pick-up there room!  I also reminded them that the cruel queen would inspect their room thoroughly!  She will look in drawers, she will check beds and she will look at the doll house.  The cruel queen wants everything to be put in the correct place and not just thrown under a bed or on a shelf!

It was working!!!!  They ran to their room and I could hear them feverishly picking up everything and telling each other where things belong.  With some continued prompting from me, such as "I think I hear the queen on the roof" and "I hear her footsteps!  She's almost HERE!" they had it cleaned up in no time!

Now, I have to think of how I could quickly dress up like a cruel queen so I could go inspect there room.  What does a cruel queen wear?  Well, last night she wore a black pea coat with the collar pulled up and a pink pashmina scarf!

The cruel queen stomped into their room and checked their beds, opened drawers, made sure only doll furniture was in the doll house, and made sure their blanket were on their beds while the girls huddled together and pretended to be scared of the cruel queen. The queen told them that they narrowly escaped the dark dungeon, but she would be back and they may not be so fortunate next time! 

They loved it!  The cruel queen had to come back to check teeth after they had been brushed, too!

I can't wait to see what other great things we learn from Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle!

Fall Craft Time!

What is it about fall and spring that gets me in a crafty mood?  Fall (when the weather is actually cool here in Florida) is one of my favorite times of year!  I love getting out the fall decorations adding the warm colors to my home decor.

Fall is not complete with out a pumpkin or two sitting around!  These burlap door hangers seem to be really popular this fall (according to the pins on Pinterest).  It was super easy to make...so easy, that I made quite a few!  As you can tell, this one is not hanging on my door at the moment because we have to also show our team spirit this fall, too!

On our door for the moment is our Red and Black wreath to show our allegiance to the GA Bulldogs, which is a must when you are in Florida and surrounded by much less fashionable colors as orange and blue!

Other projects, which weren't necessarily fallish, but recently completed so they can be included in this post, are our dinner table subway art and our new bulletin board collage wall.  Pardon the bland walls in these pictures.  We are temporarily in a rental home, so we are pretty much stuck with the wall color.

I pinned several different pictures of subway art project similar to this and then used the different sayings from different ones that I liked to make ours.  It's a topic of regular discussion at our dinner table and I love that I can point out a specific written rule in our home instead of coming up with rules on the fly. 

This picture just doesn't do justice for our new bulletin board collage wall, not to mention the lack in photography skills of mine!  I took three old framed prints that we were NEVER going to hang in our home, cut the backs out and then spray painted the frames black.  I then took the old backings and cut a sheet of cork to fit.  From there I wrapped the cork and backing in burlap and slid it into the backs of the frames.

I would be completely embarrassed if anyone ever saw the backs of each board and the not so pretty duck tape holding the backs in the frames!  There is also a blank piece of wood on the wall collage as well.  Since it doesn't really stand out against our bland walls, I plan to paint it black and then add some vinyl lettering to it.  I'm still trying to decide what I want to put on the board, too.  This is where I'm severely lacking in creativity.  I hope I'm not staring at a blank piece of wood for months and months while waiting on the perfect something to come to my brain!


The girls have already picked which boards they each want to display their school work and their masterpieces!  I'll post more pics when this project is completed!

Bible Study Fellowship 2012

Since we were running out the door this morning, I forgot to take a picture of the girls,
so technically this was taken after BSF, but still on the first day!

We started our second year of Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) today!  Not only do I love the biblical knowledge and growth I receive from BSF, but my girls love it, too!  This year we will be going through the book of Genesis. Yes, a whole year (well, school year) dedicated to one book of the bible.  I'm quite certain that I will learn more than I ever could have imagined about the first book of God's word.

A few thought provoking statements and questions from the lecture today:

• Do you expect God to speak to you? 
• What the bible says, God says.  Are you listening?  Are you responding?
• What is the ultimate priority of your life?  What do you spend your physical, financial and emotional resources to build up?  
• What habits to I need to develop or discontinue in order to meet God in His word. 
• Human beings are moral and spiritual failures.  What hope do we have?  

I pray that it will be another great year of study in God's word, that I will experience greater spiritual maturity, that God will reveal Himself to me, that my girl's will grow in their knowledge of God's Word and His promises, and that through the Holy Spirit, I will become a better disciple for my children.

Sweet Sisters

No photo shoot is complete without silly faces!