Playdough

I love homemade play dough. I refuse to buy something that I can make so easily. I have been making it for years. I have learned to make it a bunch of different ways. Sometimes I had unsweetened kool-aid for scent. I have also learned to only make one color at a time. It bugs me when they mix colors so now I just make one color at a time. 4 cups flour 1 cup salt 1 3/4 cup warm water food coloring or paint powder I mix mine in the mixer now. For years I would mix it by hand and one day while making bread that I could use it for making play dough. What other fun things do you do with your kids during the summer to keep them busy? Pamela

Feeling Beachie

WOW Do I feel honored to help this week. I guess I better come up with some amazing answers. First of all I would love if you would link up and answer these fun questions with me. It is a great way to get to know one another. Oh, you do not know me. Well let me introduce myself. I am Pam, Pamela if you ask my mom, Gypsy Dawn if it was up to my dad. I am a stay at home mom although there are few days we end up staying home. I have six amazing children, ages 2-15. Ha, my 1 key is messed up so it just wrote 6 kids ages 2-5. Man I think it is hard now, that would be hard. My husband is a soldier and has been for 19 years. We are in the middle of our eighth deployment. I enjoy blogging but hate editing so you will always find lots of mistakes. I enjoy sewing and scrap booking but those things do not happen often any more. okay, let's get to these amazing questions, you know since I came up with them. The statements are: 1. I learned how to make _sew____ in _my friends kitchen, I wish we lived closer because she has so much more to teach and I have so much more to learn. ___ 2. I have always wanted to _learn to swim under water but am totally scared of drowning. ___ 3. My purse always has a __chapstick________and _my daughters first diaper, she was a preemie and it reminds me of how far we have come______________. 4. One day when I am _a adult___________I am going to _stop stressing about what everyone else things and says about me.______________________. Pamela The code is:

Wordless Wednesday

I love my son. A couple of weeks ago he went to summer camp. Right before he left he tied a rope around my wrist to remind me to pick him up. I told him the counselors would never let me forget him. This child cracks me up. Pamela

They are growing up too fast

Can I ask a question? How long was I asleep last night? Because all the sudden my children are HUGE, when did I give them permission to grow up? Pamela

Miscellany Monday

I am so excited about this week. My girls come home from visiting grandma, my son comes home from his last summer camp. I have missed having everyone home. I am so excited to get back on schedule. This week my husband and I have been married for 17 years. I cannot believe it. We have been together for much longer. For our anniversary I got him a new gun. I only wish he was here to enjoy it. How do you know you have cool friends? When you get a package and get a bag like this in it. I love Becky for sending this to me. Just for the fun of it. And this is me. Hope drew it of me a couple of weeks ago. I love this child. I am also excited because I am having a fun give away right now, one that makes me want to snuggle up in bed and think about my hero. You can check it out here. Pamela