Avarice Update

Well as of last wk I had all this done even with DH here. I guess I do get more stitching done with him around then without. I took the pic with my Iphone so it isn't actually the best pic lol but wow! A few more stitches to the right side of her face and then she will have most of the face done. The rest of it isn't until um page9 haha so it will be awhile as I'm working all the way acrossed first. Putting her away for awhile. All the brown is killing me doing a pg a month. At that rate it'll be yrs b4 she's done so I need to speed it up if possible. Going to the local LNS tomorrow for some silk thread for my Greek Mandala and will look to see if they have fabric suitable for my Tarot Town. It will be so nice if I can just go between the 3 pieces. The Tarot Town one is so colorful and so different from all the brown and yellow of Avarice. Funny thing is that when I went and put her away and got out my Greek Mandala for the "class" I wanted to just work on Avarice! Oh well. Only plan on taking a break from her for maybe a few days to a wk as I do want to get this pg done this month.

Lunch- ya i'm a huge chicken when trying something new

Well I tried something new and believe me while making it my face was making one of those eww expressions with the partial lip raise and like you smell something smelly. I told DH well its healthy and if the Egyptians ate chickpeas then I can at least try them. I found it @ http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Vegetarian-Chickpea-Sandwich-Filling/Detail.aspx
I'll admit I've wanted to try out chickpeas b4 but never would. DH wants the recipe to take back to Korea to make in his dorm because putting it in a food processor or in my case one thats a blender attachment is crazy fast and easy. And he likes it, I will add he's a total meat eater so to get him to try something Vegan shocked me. Normally, if I try something new he'll try it b4 me so I'll be brave and try a bite or two at least. But if he don't like it he'll eat what I gave him and say it was good or okay and not ask for more. But he wanted seconds then thirds.

First I made it like the recipe says but I added 2 baby dill pickles and left out the celery dropping everything in the processor attachment. Oh added a little Tabasco to. Served it in a tomato basil wrap with some lettuce and sliced cucumber slices. Cut it in half and gave DH half and me half.

1. too much onion for my taste so nxt time and there will be a nxt time I make it I'll use maybe a lil over a 1/4 of an onion vs a half.
   
2. I'll add at least 4 pickles to the mix or I'll cut some to add on top in the wrap like i did with the cucumber.
   
3. I'll get a can of the seasoned diced tomatoes to go in the wrap to.
   

I toasted a slice of wheat bread and folded it in half and added cucumber slices, shredded lettuce, sliced a whole baby dill in half, and the filling and its alot better to me in the toasted bread with the pickle slice. DH still likes the tomato basil wrap better with more pickle as well so I think nxt time I'll blend it altogether and chop up some pickles and mix them in with a spoon.

Off to stitch for awhile b4 the kids get out of school. We are going out to dinner with my Mom tonight so I know I wont get to stitch any tonight. I'll try to post an updated pic of Avarice tomorrow morning. I think once I get the face finished I'll work on one of the others for a little while. I need a break from all the brown!

Who's rdy for 2011? Stitching update

Not me!

Well I decided for 2011 I'll be working mostly on just my WIP's/UFO's and my Haed's.
I have the floss and fab for my Vanity. But I really need to get a piece no smaller then 31x41" 25ct for my Tarot Town and after I do I will work on getting the floss put together for that. I also have everything for my Not Forgotten but I can't seem to find where I put it all! -,- I'm sure I will as I get everything together. Cleaning out and sorting through my stitching stuff today so if I don't find it today I'll find it this wk at least.

I'll try as I pull them out over the nxt yr to take pics of my WIP's and UFO's. But I will only be doing that as I work on them.

I think it will help get things done at least the big things if I put them in their own folders as I do it. I hope at least haha! Well break time over time to get back to work.

Book List

Putting the book list here which is huge ok and these are only the MUST read soon list as they said to me. So friends and family that wish to help buy the books can. Because it is HUGE and they are welcome to read them as well so they have a better understanding of the kids.

Book list for both First 4 are the ones I am going to try to buy this month if we can afford to but they were instant that ALL are very important.... makes me look at the money coming in n the money going out and I'll never get my first and only real vacation/honeymoon since C and I never had the money to take one since we were married my 3rd semester of college n his what 4th I think. The more help we can get with the books the more likely we'll have a chance to take the trip b4 my back kills me. N thats the other thing because if the doc's r right and my back kills me in the nxt few yrs my kids will be among the ones at higher risk of the gifted kids to kill themselves b4 they get out of high school especially if it happens b4 or soon after Cecil finishes the year long tour in Korea. If I was granted one wish it would so be to have my kids BE NORMAL KIDS! Higher intelligence really doesn't seem like much of a blessing!

1. A Parents Guide to Gifted Children
2. Raising a Gifted Child: A Parenting Handbook
3. Living with Intensity:Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults
4. Parents of Gifted Kids: How to Understand, Live with, and Stick up for Your Gifted Child
5. Gifted Children and Gifted Education: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents
6. Helping Gifted Children Soar

B's list which they can be kept for K when she gets older

1. Math for the Gifted Student Grade 2
2. Math for the Gifted Student Grade 3
3. Gifted and Talented:Grade 2 Reading, Writing, and Math
4. Reading for the Gifted Student Grade 2 (they have a grade 3 as well)
5. Literature Links:Activities for the Gifted Readers
6. Challenging the Gifted Child:An Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers
7. Life in the Fast brain: Keeping Up with Gifted Minds

And K's

1. The Drama of the Gifted Child
2. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers (k-2): 50 dynamic Activities to Stimulate Creativity
3. The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What do we know

Gifted Children

Last year our son was in the 1st grade. I had a hard time to just accept that he was Gifted. The boy is so smart he don't make anything other then 100's every teacher raved about him. So they tested him. Ok ya since pre-school we've had a heads up that it WAS coming. But I just hoped he'd just be a normal kid. Proud he's smart sure. But I wanted him to be normal is that so much to ask really? I get I should be the proud mom and I am but being a military brat that he is from a family of military brats and knowing how cruel kids can be and can be to the new kid on top of the exceptionally smart kids I DONT want that for my kid. I Said absolutely no skipping not gonna happen unless it is absolutely necessary. I get delt with ppl telling me thats harsh. But I know how kids treat kids that are different and it don't matter if they are good different or bad different.

Tonight was a "Gifted Child" meeting and it was made clear that even though I want them to be normal and I say them as my daughter is in kindergarten and hasn't been tested yet as their school dont test til the end of 1st grade. Some of the other schools in the district do however but not hers. The Gifted Teacher in charge of the kids said she is exceptionally gifted and thinks possibly more then her older brother. And warned that WILL cause more problems when she is tested and as they get older. She intentionally answers a question wrong and pretends she don't know when it is 100% clear that she does know she tells me. Well Duh I knew that, she does it when she gets nervous and then starts to act silly. So she tells me she is going to fall into the category of kids that don't want to be different and know they are. Our son has always known he was SMARTER then the other kids in his class all his teachers since preschool have told him such and he's okay with it. She on the other hand the Gifted Teacher who's had 16yrs of experience with gifted kids goes on to tell me that K is the opposite and her personality tells her its going to be trouble and feels obligated to give me a heads up that its going to be one hell of an emotional roller coaster for our daughter. I was like hello her dad's in Korea and well we are already on one and its been beyond hell to the point I got her a new bed and bed sheets and curtains and even a DS and her Nana gave me the money to get her a reader rabbit for kindergarden which is still on its way to me in the mail. The game that is. So She wrote down a lists of books that she says I must read to help all of us deal and learn how to cope and relate and help. And She gave me a booklist to read for our son as well to help him. Of course they did this with other kids who were 1st time welcome to the gifted children group. And we got to meet with other 1st time and existing parents and children.

If your a parent of a normal kid be thankful! Be very very thankful!! These kids after talking to them and to parents of multiple age groups and the gifted teachers go through a childhood that is beyond complicated and hard and we were told tonight to look around and then when the kids were off on their own in another room that ALOT of them will commit or attempt to commit suicide in highschool!

Went to HL for some threads and ended up getting extra

Well I went to HL for some floss but I found the bib kit and thought it was too cute for V's baby and then I saw the bib book and bought 2 bibs. The first one I'm stitching is the close up of the lil mouse.

Stitchy Update

Well I haven't stitched much since Hubby got home april 9th since I threw out my back 2 days later and dont get to see the doc until June 1st!! But b4 then I did have a bit to show and a finish.


The first is the Naptime Dragon by KK for the SAL.

Then 2nd is Avarice pg 2.

And the last is the Military Wife's Prayer. I'm still not too keen on the design but I do like the prayer for the most part. So with DH about to leave for a yr I bought and stitched it anyway. I do have a magnet for Sharlene for a magnet exchange about finished so I cant show a pic of it yet.

Mom in time out finish and pic of my sick cat

This one my boy picked out for me. I want to turn it into a door hanger but not sure how I want to do it yet. Its done on the PTP fabric and Thread Worx's Threads.

well this is my sick kitty Fred =( he was laying on the pillow next to me on the couch while I was stitching. A little over 3yrs old and fighting for his life the poor thing.

Wife's Prayer

Avarice