{"id":2456,"date":"2010-12-23T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T22:27:16","slug":"ami-mental-baking-ouchies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Ami Mental, Baking & Ouchies…"},"content":{"rendered":"

AmiMental<\/a> is a blogger that I read.\u2020 She is funny, smart, caring and she blogs EVERY SINGLE DAY!\u2020 I bow to her greatness.\u2020 She is also the sweetest person.\u2020 She is the one who sent Kei the yarn and yarn book.<\/a> She read on my blog that Kei was making some clay fairies and asked if I thought Kei would like a book about making fairies.\u2020 Well duh!! Of course she would. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward to a few days ago.\u2020 A package comes in the mail, a BIG, HUGE package.\u2020 Kei opens it and can not believe her eyes, I can not believe my eyes.\u2020 It is full of Klutz books, Sculpey Clay, charms, glow in the dark stars.\u2020 It was amazing. If I had gone out and picked Kei’s favorite things I couldn’t have done better.\u2020 Kei was so excited. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Wow and Wow!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She has been making clay bears, animals, food for hours and hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Honey the Bear..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sushi, Rice w\/ chopsticks, salads, bread, candy, cakes, ice cream and more!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cake and Candy Cane...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I emailed Ami to tell her how much she loved it and she told me she just kept finding things that Kei would like.\u2020 She also told me her son bought the clay for Kei and wouldn’t even let her reimburse him.\u2020 This is what I love about my blog, it brings together people that I would never know.\u2020 A Mom and a son in Oregon send Kei a great package full of things she loves,\u2020 a Mom in Australia<\/a> posts about cute little owls<\/a> that she and her girl make which inspire Kei to make felt animals.\u2020 The mom in Australia sees the pictures and calls her kids to look at Kei’s owls.\u2020 2 Moms with girls Kei’s age; one in Connecticut<\/a> and one in New Jersey<\/a>;\u2020 read my blog and we comment regularly back and forth.\u2020 We share ideas, ask questions, share links.\u2020 Kei reads their daughters blogs.\u2020 Their daughters read Kei’s blog. \u2020 I consider them friends.\u2020 The world is so much smaller with the internet.\u2020 People can get close no matter how far.\u2020 I love my new friends.\u2020 I love reading about their world, their lives.\u2020 They encourage me and inspire me to be better.\u2020 I am a better Mom, a better friend, a better HS Mom because of people like them.
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And thank you again Ami. You just ROCK!! <\/span><\/p>\n

Kei and I also baked a lot this week.\u2020 We made Oreo Truffles<\/a>, Mystery Bars<\/a>, Banana bread and more goodies.\u2020 Kei loves to bake but I never have.\u2020\u2020 I love to cook, but never have liked baking.\u2020 Since Kei loves it so much I have actually began to enjoy it.\u2020 The main thing I don’t like about it is you have to be so precise.\u2020 I am more of a throwitinabowlandstirit kinda girl.\u2020 This 1\/2 T, 1\/4 Cup stuff just doesn’t appeal to me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Let the Baking Begin...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oreo Truffles...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kei Jumping for Joy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mystery Bars...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now for the ouchie portion of this story.\u2020 Aforementioned Mystery Bars are made with sticky goodness.\u2020 Kei ran some goodies to the lovely ladies next door while I finished getting the bars out of the pan.\u2020 Some of them were stuck, there was a knife laying on the counter.\u2020 I picked up the knife to slide it under the stuck on portion.\u2020 The knife met resistance, the knife flew into my palm.\u2020 I felt 2 stabs.\u2020 This is a hand that has had severe nerve damage about 10 years ago, which is another story for another day.\u2020 I closed my eyes, said “No God please” and looked down.\u2020 I saw a cut on my palm, turned my hand over and saw a cut on the front of my hand.\u2020 I walked outside and yelled for Kei who came running.\u2020 I almost passed out, but I don’t really know why.\u2020 It wasn’t a lot of blood, it didn’t hurt that much and I am not a passing out kinda person.\u2020 Fast forward to the rest of the story…I stabbed a knife completely through my hand.\u2020 I have butterfly stitches, got a tetanus shot, doc put me on antibiotics and stressed over and over that I must keep it clean.\u2020 He said time and time again, “I can not believe you didn’t damage anything, not a nerve, an artery, a tendon, a bone, it is a miracle”.\u2020 I think God heard my prayer and said, “While I can’t do anything about your stupidity in picking up a knife to use as a spatula, I will make sure it does as little damage as possible”.<\/p>\n

So here I sit, with my hand bandaged up, my arm sore from a shot, not able to do much of anything.\u2020 But I do have some amazing Mystery Bars and how many people can say they stabbed their hand completely through with a knife???<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas Eve Eve,
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\nYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
\nNot believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
\nFrancis P. Church<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AmiMental is a blogger that I read.\u2020 She is funny, smart, caring and she blogs EVERY SINGLE DAY!\u2020 I bow to her greatness.\u2020 She is also the sweetest person.\u2020 She is the one who sent Kei the yarn and yarn book. She read on my blog that Kei was making some clay fairies and asked … Continue reading Ami Mental, Baking & Ouchies…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,10,44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-homeschool","category-learning-all-the-time","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ico2-DC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}