Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Ninja

There are some folks who can hang fresh herbs in their kitchens to dry… then there are folks with cats…

Sharing my Toys

I have a crafty daughter! We always have fun crafting together, but it’s getting to be even more fun now that’s she’s big enough to be more independent with some of the tools.

Here she is, helping me put together blocks for a ‘throw together’ patchwork duvet cover. This is a true recycling project, using old flannel sheets and fabric scraps!

We’ll have more photos later of this project.

Honor also found a kids’ sewing project for a sock doll and is working on that too.

Important lesson #1 – thread the needle!

Working hard on her doll

So far…

We’ll have photos of this too, as she goes along :)

Tom Puts Jerry Balgarorp and Viewed With Cynicism

Ok, so it’s not like many kids’ coloring books are shining examples of good grammar and proper spelling, and following a story line or otherwise making any sense page to page is also a rare occurrence(!), but some books are truly humorous in their collection of errors. Throw in a foreign language and things get even more fun. Honor filled up a sticker chart in class and won a prize from the prize bin. She chose a cute little Tom & Jerry coloring book… and we found that the English translations of the Arabic text were hilarious! It was as if this book was made in China by a printer who knew neither language!

and

and my favorite:

Again, I don’t expect big things from coloring books, and I think it incredibly nice that the teacher provides these little incentives/gifts, probably little things she has to pay for out of pocket, so I wouldn’t want her to take a lot from her salary to do this. I’m not complaining about the gift at all!  Honor picked it for the coloring, not the reading… But these are funny!

A few more (no photos)

“Tom plays tennis with Jerry reel.”  (almost right! Almost matching the Arabic. Why the random ‘reel’??)

“Tom Jerry slap blow” (Arabic – Jerry hits Tom hard)

“Tom Jerry knows to be quiet” (Tom tells Jerry that we will be quiet)

“Tom and Jerry in violent battle” (They got this one right – the only one!)

“Tom and Jerry ithian for battle (Tom and Jerry prepare for battle)