Everyday Things - Coffee

I love coffee. I did not grow up in a coffee drinking family. It was something happened when I became an adult. My husband loves coffee with me. Around our house one word can be a question, "coffee". To which the other person replies, "I will fix it."

In 1998 I remember when Starbucks arrived in Taiwan. I also remember taking my husband there for coffee. It was soon after we met and near where I lived. He had lived in Seattle so it was a treat to go to Starbucks. I remember visiting Hong Kong when there were just a few Starbucks. A friend and I searched to find one. Now they are on almost every street corner or so it seems. Just before we moved there was one at the other end of the area where we lived.

I like Starbucks but I love Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf which I found in Singapore. We had a few in Taiwan for a short time. Honestly, I like Seattle's Best better than Starbucks.

Normally, I just make it at home. Right now I am waiting for a replacement coffee maker. Hopefully, it will come in the mail soon. This one just shuts off.

I have children that love coffee. J will drink coffee milk which means decaf coffee with lots of milk. Miss K has a coffee habit that got started when Starbucks would give her a babycinno for free. Now when she see Starbucks, she says, "coffee". I am teaching my children to love what I love and enjoy the finer things in life.

That is an old picture of Miss K enjoying coffee in Beijing.

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess

Dr. Suess was born today in 1904. We decided to have some fun and celebrate his birthday. Of course, we had green eggs and ham for breakfast.

Three drops of green food coloring make the eggs green. There was some spinach in there. They tasted fine as long as you did not look at the color.

Miss K is pondering this new breakfast. Yes, she has football pj's on. She got them a cousin or a friend (D, did these come from you?) I thought, "hey, who cares she wears them at home, who is going to see her in them?" No, one until she wears them in a picture that is posted on the blog so everyone can see that she wears football pj's. Back to breakfast. You know, she ate them and I didn't have to feed them to her. There was also a bit extra green in there as I added spinach.

Master J read Green Eggs and Ham.

We have cake for tonight's dinner. Daddy cut the hat and mama decorated. That was as red and I could make it. I ran out of red food coloring.

Math Fun

Some of these math posts are for my memory. As I mentioned before J and I seem to have our struggles when it is time to do math. I am on the lookout for math games or ways to make it more fun and trick him in that we are doing math but he didn't know it. Today we were supposed to make a graph using dominoes. It became a game and he didn't want to stop. We did it three times. Adding the totals and recording it on our graph. We took turns and each had different color crayons.

The Water Cycle

We read The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks the other day for science. Today, I decided that we would review what we learned. I am a visual learner and so that tends to be how I teach. J does like crafts and things like that so it helps. He did a good job showing the various things in the water cycle going from evaporation to taking a bath.

We then made a top for it so we can see one section at a time.

One of the things that I enjoy about homechooling is I know what he is studying so as we walked back from the bus stop (taking Miss K to her bus) we saw the water inlet and I asked him what it was and what he thought it did.

National Pig Day

Today is National Pig Day and so in honor of that I wore pigtails. I think I was probably about 8 the last time I wore pigtails. I even went out in public today. I took Miss K to preschool and then Jack to his monthly medical appointment for his meds. He told the nurse that "my mom is wearing pigtails because it is National Pig Day". We cleaned up the pigpen aka the family room. We didn't bother to try to clean the room known as my craft room or as J said to the babysitters dad when he gave him a tour "that is where my mom does her crafty things".

We played Pass the Pigs.

and pigged out on some pretzels.

My kids love to wear there pj's usually it is after dinner but today it was a bit earlier.

We decided not to eat pig as that would not be celebrating for the pig.

Root Beer Floats

Miss K has only had soda a few times in her five years. The other evening we had a special treat -- Root beer floats. It was a treat because we had room in the freezer for some ice cream and had root beer in the house. I think this was the first float she had and she ate every bit of it and then drank it with a straw.

Breakfast with Grandpa and Grandma

Miss K got the camera. She loves to look at pictures on the camera and has learned how to take pictures. She needs to work a bit more on her photography before she wins an award. Here is a sample of her photography at work.



Grandma was there. She likes to take pictures of herself.