July 29th-August 3rd

Corn-on-the-Cobcakes,

anyone?

What a SWEET week this turned out to be...

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Saturday:

Went to the church to set up for

Family Sunday.

Another mother and I decorated the Sanctuary

in shades of orange and red,

which all related to the teaching for the day.

After a visit to my parents',

I went home and got everyone and everything ready

for church the next day...

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Sunday:

Family Sunday!

Whenever we have five Sundays in a month,

the 5th Sunday becomes 

Family Sunday.

The main church service is 

"taken over" 

by either our children's ministry

or by the youth ministry.

Since it was the Children's Ministry's turn,

we used our

252 Basics curriculum

and discussed what July's theme had been about:

EPIC LOVE.

We focused on how God wants us to love others,

even when they are different than us.

We put a modern "twist" on the story of

Peter ministering to Cornelius

by making Peter's "Jewish team"

the University of Tennessee's Volunteers

and Cornelius' "Gentile team"

the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Most of the people at our church are HUGE

UT fans since we live in Knoxville, TN,

but our minister 

(and a couple other active members)

are HUGE Ohio State fans.

It was a fun way to discuss

loving others that are different than us...

(Little did I know that I would get a chance

to put this lesson into practice later this week!)

After church,

the girls went to spend TWO nights

at my parent's house,

so Little Wild Man spent the evening alone with us.

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Monday:

Being that is was only Little Wild Man and I

together this morning,

we slacked off when it came to school.

We watched some of the Olympics together

and then went to pick up Mimi.

Mimi was a flower girl in my wedding-

she was a year and a half old at the time.

She is now 16,

and I like to think of her as my 

teenage niece,

even though we are not "technically" related.

She spent the night with us,

because she was bored,

(and because she was avoiding her Summer Reading)

which was fine by me.

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Tuesday:

After doing some school with Little Wild Man,

and making Mimi do some of her reading (hee! hee!),

we went over to my parents' to pick up the girls.

They had a fabulous time while they were there,

of course,

and didn't want to leave,

but I made 'em,

being the mean Mommy that I am... ;0)

We then grabbed some lunch at Burger King,

where Mimi about had a heart attack

because she saw they now offer a

Bacon Sundae.

That's right, folks,

BK has gone the "foodie" route.

Mimi begged for a Bacon Sundae,

and said that would be the ONLY thing 

she would ask for for lunch,

so I got it for her.

After the fist bite she exclaimed,

"This is the BEST LUNCH EVER!!!"

Teenagers... ;0)

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Wednesday:

After school,

the kiddos played until our dear friend

Marie came over for

supper and more crochet lessons.

Oh how we love Marie!

Jungle Girl didn't get as much crocheting in

this evening because we had to take a break

to bake some cupcakes.

She wanted to enter our local Farmer's Market's

"Cupcakes in the Park" Contest 

for kiddos.

She decided to enter in the

"Market Inspired" category.

We decided together to have her bake up some

"Corn on the Cobcakes",

and with my supervision,

she made a batch from scratch.

(We usually use THIS Plain Yellow Cake recipe

and THIS Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe

when we make cakes.)

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Thursday:

After we did a bit of school,

Jungle Girl finished up her cupcakes 

for the contest.

After lunch,

we headed out to the park

to submit her cupcakes

and then headed to Sam's Club

to do a bit of shopping

When we returned to the park,

we discovered that Jungle Girl had won

1ST PLACE

for her cupcakes!

Woo-hoo!

I was so proud of her,

and I think she felt pretty good

about her accomplishment too...

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Friday:

After I caught us up on our read aloud,

The Hobbit,

we went to my parents' house for a bit.

 Then we headed back home, grabbed some supper

and Super Dad,

and headed out for an evening of fun with friends at

Dollywood Nights.

We even brought home three extra kiddos

from Dollywood with us

for a two night sleepover,

 so I am certain this will be a busy weekend

of fun too... :0)

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