Beads and bracelets

The neighbor across the street is so nice.  She doesn't have any grand kids so she ends up spoiling mine.....The younger ones anyway.  A few days after New Years she brought over gifts for Rachel, Ethan and Mayah.  She gave Rachel a bracelet making kit and Mayah got a bead/bracelet kit and Ethan got a really cool remote control car.....BUT...poor guy...it didn't work.  It was in the box and all but for some reason didn't work.  He was sad.  And when the kids were writing out their thank you's he said he didn't know what to write in it.  So we worked on it a bit and finally came up with something very nice to say.  He said thank you for the remote control car.  It looks really cool. 

The girls and I spent last night doing a mother/daughter TIME.  We did bracelets and had lots of fun.  It wasn't easy tying them off though and Mayah dropped her beads about three times.  Then she had me try and tie it and guess what?  I dropped them.  That string sure is slippery.  They did more bracelets and necklaces today too.  And they thought they would have Don try to tie this time. Well he dropped the beads too.  LOL.  Notice Mayah's tongue sticking out as she is putting her necklace together.  This is such a Puhlman thing.  Don has pictures of him with the same look when he played guitar....and any other time when he is in full concentration. 

Church was SO great today.  All the talks pretty much tied in to Faith.  What a wonderful day it was. I love going to church. I love the spirit I feel and the hope it gives me in a world filled with evil.  There are so many things I learned today. They are things I already knew but it is so refreshing to hear them again and again.  Repetition is important.  That is how we learn....hearing things over and over.  And then doing things that show that we have actually learned these things.  I like to compare it to my online degree.  I can go over and over things and think that I have learned them but until I can apply them to my life or even teach someone else these things that is when I have truly learned.

My online class is going pretty good so far.  I am plugging along.  Still a bit nervous about math.  I took a post test yesterday and almost passed it to move on to the next chapter.  I got a 75% but need an 80%.  SO CLOSE.  When I was going over it with Don I noticed that I made stupid errors. UGH.  So frustrating.  If I would just slow it down and pay closer attention.  I missed a negative sign.  Then I multiplied wrong.   BUT I won't give up and I will succeed and I will move on to my next class.  I am really really enjoying this online degree.  I love doing one class at a time. It works so well for me.  SO excited to keep going and one day be able to have my own classroom full of kids.

Caleb has an assignment in science to make a car.  He got some wood and glued it together with some clamps.  Then used some wheels from a toy car we had and had it all set and ready.  They had to either take their car in to class on Friday or have a picture of it for a prototype.  He printed off a picture of it and took it with him then I find out that he didn't use that picture. He drew one up of a different idea.  WHY?  When everyone got to class that day...and before anyone got up in front of the class to show their prototype the teacher mentioned how no one could use real tires.  OH.....Caleb said the class was so mad.  Everyone was asking the teacher why she didn't tell them before.  When he came home and told us about we were thinking maybe he just forgot or maybe didn't hear the instructions clearly.  SO Don and I both checked the paper that came home about it and it didn't mention it anywhere.  SOOOOOO he completely started over and used 5 cd's for each wheel.  We shall see how it moves down the track.  The teacher wouldn't reveal how long the track was.  And extra credit goes to the person that gets closest to the bottom of the track.  They can have a stopping device on their car if they want. The teacher wanted the students to work pretty much alone on their car and only get very very minimal help on their cars.  Hoping his car atleast goes straight down and end up somewhere at the bottom.  :)  When we pushed it across the floor it kind of veered to the left.  But, he did it by himself.  And that is what is important.