Alphabet Soup

Tomorrow is my son's first day of Kindergarten, so tonight for dinner I made the kids Alphabet soup! 
I told my son that it would help him to have his letters with him at school. :)

As he was eating he would say things like "mom I just ate the letter P"! 

When he was all done he said "Mom, now I can sing the whole A B C's!"  Then he sang them, it didn't matter that he already knew them.  He thinks the soup made him do it, and it was very cute!

I think I just might do this every year on the night before the first day of school! :)

Some Great Ideas For Teaching Your Little Ones At Home

My son gets to start Kindergarten this year, and he is super excited about that His younger sister however is a little sad that she can't go to school too. I would love to put her in preschool, but I'm just not able to do that so I told her that we would have mommy school at home.

Since I am not a teacher, I immediately started researching to get some fun ideas for our little school, and I came across some mommy packets on one of my very favorite blogs, Oopsey Daisy.

Each packet focuses on a letter of the week, a number of the week, a shape of the week, a song of the week, and a theme of the week, and they are jam packed full of games, crafts, snack ideas, songs, book ideas, and so much more!

Alison at Oopsey Daisy put a lot of time in to these, and she was nice enough to share them with her readers!

Today I would like to share where to find these packets because I think that they are just so much fun! Below you will find links where you can learn more abour each packet, and download them for yourself if you want to!

U is for US.A

M is for Monsters


E is for Easter


Z is for Zoo


G is for Green


T is for Thanksgiving


H is for Halloween




L is for Leaves


Those are all of her mommy school packets that I know of, but she also shares some great ideas for O is for Owls, D is for Dogs, A is for Apples, and C is for Cars & Trucks

Well I guess thats just about it for today. Don't forget to head on over to Oopsey Daisy! Even if mommy school isn't your thing, she really has a little bit of everything on her blog! There's sure to be something for just about everybody!


The photos in this post were used with permission. 

Family Night Lesson- Lets Try To Be Like Jesus

This lesson started out with my son giving the opening prayer.  Then for our opening song we sang Im Trying To Be Like Jesus. It can be found in The Childrens Song Book on page #78.


Next we had our lesson.  Our lessons are always pretty short because if I make them too long, my kids just won't pay attention.  :) 

Our lesson was out of a book called "First Talks"  (sorry I tried to provide a link but I just can't find it online.

It is a book full of ready made Primary talks, but I use them for Family night.  The talk that I chose was called "Jesus' Example" 
 After our little lesson we spent a few minutes talking about what kinds of things we could do to be more like Jesus. 

After that we sang "I'm Trying To  Be Like Jesus" one more time before my daughter said the closing prayer. 

Fianally it was the time that the kids had been waiting for....REFRESHMENTS, and this week we had brownies!  They were delicious!!!

Cookie Pops!

I am constantly looking for new and exciting activities to do with my kids because like most mom I want my kids to do more than just sit in front of the TV all day.

My sweet little sister knows this, and yesterday she showed up at our house with this!
Today we decided to make them, and it was oh so much fun!  The kit came with everything that we needed!  All we had to suply was one stick of butter, and an egg. 

Since my kids like to pretend that they are chefs this was the perfect activity for them!

My daughter got to pour the cookie mix into the bowl, and then my son got to pour in the butter.  I added the egg myself because my kids are still just a little young to crack an egg without getting the shell everywhere. 

Then we each got a turn to stir.  I wish that I would have taken a picture because it was so fun to see their faces light up when it started turning into dough!

Next it was time to roll the dough into little balls.  The kids thought that this was a blast, and they were so excited to show me how well they had done with each cookie!

We then inserted a popsicle stick into each cookie, and kind of flattened the dough around them a little bit before it was off to the oven with them. 

Once the cookies had compleetly cooled, I frosted them, and placed them on a platter where the kids got to decorate them with sprinkles! 
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The kids were very proud of their work, and they were very excited to share their cookies with the rest of the family! The cookies really were delicious too!

My kids and I will most definately be making these cookies again soon!
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