HAPPPPPY New Year Faithful Readers, Friends and Family.
Im So excited for this year to start. So much can happen in one year and I want this one to be the Best year so far for our Little Family. AS we embark on this new year, and yet another year older, maybe a tad more wiser, with a brighter tint of joy. Lets think positive, lets be smart, lets get up and move. Lets not be held by fear. Now that all my babies are no longer babies :( It will be interesting to see where our family is directed.
So Welcome 2012. Let us begin.
2012 To-Do list.
A list Of items I myself would like to see done. As well as a few Family to-do's. If we can accomplish them all this year then We are SUper;)
~ Start and finish my CNA course.
~ Finish my nutrition class
~ Finish decorating the house, including curtains and area rugs.
~ Find awesome bunk beds for girls
~ Get a new Car
~ Pay off some debt
~ Start and finish successfully at losing weight. Goal 5pds a month.
~ Drive up to Forks for the day
~ Go to The Local Fairs
~ Enroll kids in Gymnastics, swimming lessons and maybe riding lessons.
~ Schedule Sophies Surgery
~ Teach Emily how to write out the entire Alphabet and have her learn letter sounds
~ Learn 200 more signs.
~ Find a good night Job
~ Register kids with CYS
~ Register Girls For School
~ Master a few good recipes
~ Write 10 chapters of a hit novel
~ Have more date nights
~ Family fun night out once a month
~ figure out pizza dough lol
~ grow my hair
~ take up jogging
~ Do a few home crafts, like make my own wreaths
~ Drink less beer
~ Take up yoga and do it 3 times a week
~ Burns more candles and incense
~ Print out our photos and make photo albums
~ Speak to my brothers more often
~ Show more appreciation toward matt
~ Control my temper better
~ Instead of working on getting new friendships, work on the ones I have
~ Donate time and support to Charty,give back what we can
~ Get our family portraits done.
~ Find a good Church
~ Find a good childrens Bible Story Book
~ Try new food
~ Start signing Sentences as a family
~ Visit the local water parks
~ Fence in the back yard
~ Get Matts Tamaskan asap
~ Fix the cats
~ Get our passports and visit Canada
~ Go camping at least once
~ Maybe get on a cruise to Alaska
~ Get matt his gaming system finally
~ Rent a boat and Go fishing
~ Visit Leavenworth WA for the Christmas Light Show
Lots to do, lots we would like to get done in the next year and a half we have in Washington state. Im sure Im missing some things But I can always add more to this later down the line.
I pray for an amazing year, for this family who has been through enough for right now. I pray for health and safety, for our family and All of our friends and family out there. May this year find everyone well.
Happy New years...
LETS get this Party started
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Monday, December 5, 2011
We can say it with Sign, CAN YOU?
Today is all about Signing.
After spending the day trying to form together a few signed English Sentences I've decided to share them with our Readers. Now, mind you, as A mom to 3 kids under 4, some of these sentences are going to be geared more toward, social behavior. Some helping Verbs. And Action words.
So, when it comes down to Sharing. We are learning to say it with sign. More then just share. We have to tell our kids that its not ok, to "take away" right.
So we sign
" do not take that away. Give the Toy to them please!"
" Lets get a game we all can play together"
" Share the toys with your sister (brother)"
Or in the mean spirit of sibling tension
"do not tease your brother"
"we do not hit in this family"
"leave them alone"
"that is not nice"
"done, now you may sit in time out"
"stop it, NOW!"
"its brothers (sisters) turn now"
Or how about its a huge mess in the livingroom
"time to clean up. Clean up, go go go"
"lets clean up together"
"Can you put this toy away for me"
"go clean your room"
"make your bed"
asking of questions
"do you want this one?"
"can you tell me in sign?"
"how do you say...in sign language?"
"which one?"
"where does this go?"
"who is in that Picture?"
"do you like...?"
Or useful phrases when I can not always get my husbands attention
"I have to speak with you, it is important"
Then singles
"never"
"with"
"awake"
"the"
"wash"
"maybe"
"again"
"find"
"would"
"did"
"kids"
"open"
"close"
"forget"
"stand up"
"sit down"
"in"
"out"
"great"
"job"
"good"
"try"
"clothes"
"change diaper"
"almost"
"enough"
"as"
"big"
"little"
"some"
"ask"
"for"
"on"
"off"
"but"
"decided"
"our"
"we"
I do not expect Sophie to use these signs. But with in the next several months my hope is that she will start to understand them, as we use them more often.
Its a good jumping point from here, and Now this is a place I can refer back to each day.
Words, like
the, this, that, were, was, do not, can, can not. It, is, in, all parts of spoken english. And if we want Sophie to hear, speak and sign. it has been brought to our attention that Signed English, uses those helping words. In the Form in which we speak them. Where as, ASL, would leave out those "cluttering" words and switch around the word order. Example. ASL users would say "shopping me go" instead Of "Im going to go Shopping"
Now granted I do not have all these signs memorized. But now having them written out I can run through them daily. Learning as we go of course. THe best way to do it.
After spending the day trying to form together a few signed English Sentences I've decided to share them with our Readers. Now, mind you, as A mom to 3 kids under 4, some of these sentences are going to be geared more toward, social behavior. Some helping Verbs. And Action words.
So, when it comes down to Sharing. We are learning to say it with sign. More then just share. We have to tell our kids that its not ok, to "take away" right.
So we sign
" do not take that away. Give the Toy to them please!"
" Lets get a game we all can play together"
" Share the toys with your sister (brother)"
Or in the mean spirit of sibling tension
"do not tease your brother"
"we do not hit in this family"
"leave them alone"
"that is not nice"
"done, now you may sit in time out"
"stop it, NOW!"
"its brothers (sisters) turn now"
Or how about its a huge mess in the livingroom
"time to clean up. Clean up, go go go"
"lets clean up together"
"Can you put this toy away for me"
"go clean your room"
"make your bed"
asking of questions
"do you want this one?"
"can you tell me in sign?"
"how do you say...in sign language?"
"which one?"
"where does this go?"
"who is in that Picture?"
"do you like...?"
Or useful phrases when I can not always get my husbands attention
"I have to speak with you, it is important"
Then singles
"never"
"with"
"awake"
"the"
"wash"
"maybe"
"again"
"find"
"would"
"did"
"kids"
"open"
"close"
"forget"
"stand up"
"sit down"
"in"
"out"
"great"
"job"
"good"
"try"
"clothes"
"change diaper"
"almost"
"enough"
"as"
"big"
"little"
"some"
"ask"
"for"
"on"
"off"
"but"
"decided"
"our"
"we"
I do not expect Sophie to use these signs. But with in the next several months my hope is that she will start to understand them, as we use them more often.
Its a good jumping point from here, and Now this is a place I can refer back to each day.
Words, like
the, this, that, were, was, do not, can, can not. It, is, in, all parts of spoken english. And if we want Sophie to hear, speak and sign. it has been brought to our attention that Signed English, uses those helping words. In the Form in which we speak them. Where as, ASL, would leave out those "cluttering" words and switch around the word order. Example. ASL users would say "shopping me go" instead Of "Im going to go Shopping"
Now granted I do not have all these signs memorized. But now having them written out I can run through them daily. Learning as we go of course. THe best way to do it.
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