The Bouncy Castle in Space
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If he ever starts getting forgetful, I will ask for the recipe (Secret ingredients from grandmother) and hopefully he will forget he told me!!
I should be ashamed!!
Honey just make sure he gives you the right recipe. My grandparents raised my younger brother and I and my grandmother used to also bake a secret banana bread 
. One time I caught her digging through her piles of recipes and asked her what she was looking for. She said she was looking for a banana bread recipe for the ladies at the church.
I told her, you make it all the time don't you know what you put into it. She said sure I do, but if I give them MY recipe then their banana bread would be as good as MINE.
She sould have been ashamed. (Women)
I have a friend who refuses to give out her recipe for enchilada sauce. She will literally make a batch of sauce for friends or family, allowing them to make their own enchiladas and use her sauce, but NO recipe!
That drives me NUTS! I have a friend who absolutely refuses to give out her recipes. So I google them and find most of them on allrecipes.com, then make them when she comes for dinner
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While this is funny, I know it isn't true. She is hispanic and very traditional when it comes to her cooking. I've seen her make most everything, but she always hides certain ingredients or doesn't tell the amounts. It's okay. I've made my own recipe for enchilada sauce that I like better than hers. No one else does, but I love it! My husband came up with his own too, which is simply awesome!
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Whoa, Stew! You can't just stand there and wave. You'll get trampled by all the crazy bouncing people.
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I'm super awesome! Tomorrow I am off to England for ten days--a wedding and lots of being a tourist. Woo!
Just taught my last adaptive ski lesson for the season. My nine year old student was a super smart little guy. He said he liked math so we were quizzing him on the chair lift--he could do fractions and decimals and even algebra, solving for X, in his head. I would have quizzed him on geometry but we didn't have anything to write on. He didn't know what "squared" meant, like 3[SUP]2[/SUP] and when I told him, I was halfway through my explanation when he interrupted me to gleefully square a bunch a of numbers.
Oh yeah, I got him skiing independently too
It's well worth it to ski backwards all afternoon getting weird looks for shouting "Make a pizza! Bigger pizza!", when a kid realizes they just skied all by themselves. (We teach kids with disabilities, and almost all of them have some physical or cognitive (or both) difficulties with balance or strength or coordination. So unlike other kids, they usually can't ski without help when they start out.)I just have to finish sewing a shirt before I go on this trip. Wish me luck!
Yayy, Kitty! Have fun in England. I haven't been in years, so I'm jealous.
(And don't even try to quiz me on anything math related. *shudders*)
(And don't even try to quiz me on anything math related. *shudders*)
In the midst of winter doldrums, sadly. But happy you stopped in!
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Smish, I love your bouncy posts!
I'm super awesome! Tomorrow I am off to England for ten days--a wedding and lots of being a tourist. Woo!
So unlike other kids, they usually can't ski without help when they start out.
Kitty, I'm so jealous. Have a great trip.
I think there is no high like accomplishment - it must be so great to see these kids learn such a fun skill!
Yes, I love my students! Sometimes if they can't express themselves very much, when they realize they are really doing it by themselves they will throw their hands in the air and squeal with joy. That always makes me happy.
I had a little four year old student (!!) with ataxia (trouble walking) and speech problems. She was wearing a little fluffy pink snowsuit, and I told not to worry about falling, because she was a little pink marshmallow, and if she fell her soft pink marshmallow powers would cushion her fall and it wouldn't hurt. When she inevitably fell over, I picked her up. As I was dusting the snow off her, she looked really impressed and I heard her murmur in a very awed tone, "pink marshmallow power..." It made my day.
Pink marshmallow powers are especially useful if you are like me (or my student) and you fall over a lot
Oh, Kitty, I could sure use some pink marshmallow power when I ski! It's fun, but I'm terrified of anything steeper than a green hill. Even then I panic a little! I'm so jealous you're going to England! I was just looking up spring break options for my family and came across European Cruises. I would so love to go, but simply out of the budget. Have fun!
That's priceless, Kitty. Have fun in England, and may the marshmallow force be with you!
Sheila, so cool about the Janet Reid post. I saw it, but didn't make the connection until I saw your post here. : )
