Chutes and Ladders or Jeu de l’Oie in French
This is a French version of Chutes and Ladders, but I have also included a blank template for any language or class.
The French game contains infinitive cards that the students will conjugate on each turn.
New Freebie: Customizable Free dice {to use with the jeu de l’oie game}
I’m back after a nice long break. I’ve been devoting all of my free time to teaching these days. BUT, school is out for the summer and I’m slowly finding my way back to the computer and to my old friends, Photoshop and Lightroom.
Anyway, I saw that the people at Rock the Shot are running a Father’s Day Photo Contest. So, I picked this one of my husband and our younger son. I love the “action” in this photo. Even though they’re still, the lines of their bodies and the patterns in that awful couch at my grandparents’ beach cottage create wonderful movement and interest.
To see the other entries, visit the Rock the Shot site by clicking on the button or link below.
Well, it’s raining today because, if you haven’t heard, we have this hurricane thing coming. {Even the astronauts are afraid.} We still have power here in Norfolk and I’m going a little crazy in my house. Maybe I should clean something…. nah.
So, here are some photos I took the other day when we were playing with sparklers and long exposure.
Enjoy.
Who let that baby play with fire?
My husband and I have decided that two boys are all the kids we need. We love them mightily and are desperately trying to cherish as many moments as we can with them until they start to like girls, grow facial hair and only need us for the car. We get glimpses of these older-kid moments now when they whine and roll their eyes. However, I can still put my eight-year-old in time out. {I haven’t figured out what I’ll do with a 14-year-old.} Alas, I have a few more years to cross that bridge.
This digression is leading somewhere… it’s to other people’s babies. I love babies, but I don’t want to house, diaper, feed, discipline and send to college any more than the two I have. So, I love taking the opportunity to snap some photos of other people’s kids; I can appreciate the darling, super squishy drooliness and then return them and the tuition payments to their parents.
Here is a particularly squishy, university-bound boy that I had the opportunity to love and then return.
Enjoy my tuition-free snaps.
SPL
Are you packing your bags to go somewhere this summer? Is your luggage the same black rolling bag that everyone has?
Yes or no, make your stuff stand out with these new printable luggage tags. This printable is FREE.
They fit nicely in the standard luggage tag laminating pouch. I have created six colorful and whimsical designs for you.
Click on either image to go to the download.
Enjoy.
SPL
At animoto today, I created almost effortlessly this cute video of our recent vacation.
These 30-second shorts are free, but if you want to create longer features, you’ll have to shell out a few dollars. It’s all quite reasonable. Check out the photos; it’ll only take you 30-seconds.
Enjoy.
SPL
Hats off to single parents!
I don’t know how they do it. I live in a military town where spouses can be gone for six months to a year at a time and I am whining when my husband comes home late from work. But, it just proves how much I need and depend on my babydaddy.
I really do have the best guy out there {at least the best one for me.} We celebrated ten years of marriage this year. And I couldn’t imagine having spent that many years with any other person. If you’re married, think back to that guy or gal you dated just before your spouse; it probably wouldn’t have worked out, right? Well, I don’t know your situation, but I definitely wouldn’t have lasted with the penultimate guy. Last I heard, he’s on his second wife anyway. Whew, I dodged a bullet there.
So, even though Hallmark invented all of these ridiculous holidays to make us spend money on cards, Father’s Day is worth celebrating. I am bucking the system here and giving you a freebie to honor your favorite daddy-o. Download the newest ghd printable here.
And while you’re at it, book a photo session before June 19th
and get 20% off the session and prints.
Enjoy. SPL
Fun inspiration for messy artists. My boys loved this.
So, I’d prefer to be more humble, but sometimes I am just so excited about what I did that I have to share.
I hope that you appreciate the fact that I am not a cake decorator and that I am not meticulous when I cook or bake. So this large confectionery/baking endeavor was a labor of true love from me to my 5 year old son. {And I employed the much over-exploited loyalty of my best cheese-arranging* friend, Stephanie, to keep me on task and finish the d@$^able thing before dinnertime.}
*Cheese-arranging, you ask. (adj.) Yes. It’s an adjective of endearment that I have used to describe the wonderfully OCD quality that would make someone artfully arrange the cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich so as to have no cheese overlap nor overflow. It’s opposite would describe me. I have no desire nor skill to prevent the cheese from either overlapping nor overflowing. Dare I say that I prefer overlap AND overflow. But, I love everything about Stephanie. So, I will raise a glass now (even though it may be 10am) to her “disorder” (yes, pun is intended)!
Enjoy, Hedwig!
{to also be noted, the Harry Potter craze has taken over my children since our trip to Universal in March.)
Here is a detail of the finished work. Mon chef d’oeuvre!
Assembly of the pieces. I made a chocolate cake and a butter pecan one. Both moist and yummy combined with the homemade butter cream frosting.
Crumb coating.
Doodles from iheartfaces.com
Almost done.
They can’t wait.
Ahhh. The candles. Happy Birthday, C-note!
