It's obvious I make very little time to blog regularly even though I think daily about all of the cool stuff that I want to share. So here's a small update...
Dancer got her first pair of pointe shoes a few weeks ago. She's an incredible dancer but I made her wait a bit longer than most girls do to go on pointe {she'll be 14 in July}. I wanted to be sure that she had the proper strength to do pointe and because I wanted her feet to be done growing so that I wouldn't be spending $50 on a pair of shoes that she would outgrow in a few months. Actually, she's not as excited about pointe as lots of girls are. I think she's just doing this because it's the next step that her teachers want her to take. We've dodged the pointe questions for a few years now, so now it's time to have her try it and see it it's something she wants to pursue.
Just days ago I finished sewing the ribbons and the elastics on her shoes. I watched a few YouTube videos on the correct placement of the ribbons and different ways of attaching them and then picked the one I felt best about. Her ribbons have elastic sewn into them, so the placement of them was a little bit more work than regular ribbons. The elastic on the ribbons has to hit her Achilles tendon when the ribbons are tied. I've also been working on breaking in her shoes for her, too. There also seems to be a few different ways of tying the ribbons, so she's been practicing and seeing which way works best for her. Her first pointe class starts this Wednesday, wish her luck.
Now on to something a little more fun ('cause trust me, there was nothing fun about sewing on those ribbons and elastics). A few weeks ago a received a package in the mail. I hadn't ordered anything, so of course I wondered what it was before I had a chance to open it. As it turns out, I had won a cookbook sweepstakes from Kashi. I don't think I even remember entering it. The cookbook I won is called, "Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen" by Mollie Katzen (author of Moosewood Cookbook {which at some point in my past, I owned}. Winning stuff is so cool and this cookbook is perfect for me because I am stooooooopid when it comes to using my kitchen.
Most of my time lately has been spent working my volunteer job. I'm on the Board of our area homeschool support group and cooperative. I've been working on getting our new website(s) up and running. We have our main webpage, our BigTent group (which our membership will be moving to shortly as our way of communicating with each other), and because I want our members to be able to make the most out of BigTent and not get lost having to learn a new platform, I've been creating this a website for them, too.
So there's a bit of what I've been up to lately. I'm heading down to Walgreens in a bit to try my hand at this couponing craze that has hit the blog-o-sphere. You've been living under a rock if you aren't aware of it. I have a few coupons saved up from various places, as well as, having printed a few of the internet. Some of them are going to be stacked on top of the store coupons and sales that Walgreens has going. I also think I'm prepared to try out their Register Rewards program, too. With the stacking, sales, and RR's I should be able to get some really great stuff for a fraction of their normal price. I'll post an update on how it all turned out, sometime this week.
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