Riot and Frolic

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Thanksgiving Week in Review

Thanksgiving is pretty exciting around here because you get a day off your regular job and people insist you cook all day.  

Since I dig my job and I love cooking, I WIN.  But The G is also home, so child-wrangling duties are decreased by at least 50% and I'm good at planning, so there's NAPTIME.  

Here's the week in theme:

Monday

Books:

Thanksgivingbooks

 

Thanksgiving Rules by Laurie Friedman and Teresa Murfin - fun, over-stimulating (in a good way) book about how to handle Thanksgiving (AKA, eat everything).

Thank You, Thanksgiving by David Milgrim - Super cute illustrations, easy to read, showing independence and generosity in a very simple story.

One is a Feast for a Mouse by Judy Cox and Jeffrey Ebbeler - amazing illustrations!

Celebrate Thanksgiving by Deborah Heiligman - somewhat annoying format, but informational, so meh.

Thanksgiving Day Thanks by Laura Malone Elliot and Lynn Munsinger - it was fine.  There are just so many GREAT children's books, and I didn't love this one.

How to Draw Thanksgiving Things by Rob Court - I got this just so I could draw the turkey.  Yes, so I could draw the turkey.  Totally worth it.

 Tuesday

Gratitude Garland: I had prepped the pennant pieces for this WEEKS ago out of REALLY ADORABLE scrapbook paper and I was STOKED to hear what the girls were going to be thankful for.  

Since we had just gone to the Science Museum, it took me a while to coax them away from saying "dinosaurs" and "going to the Science Museum" and "that place that we went today… the Science Museum?… yes! I'm thankful for the Science Museum" and "dinosaurs".  Eventually we got to books, family, our house, and other simpler things.  

Directions and a free template download are here.

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Wednesday

Table decorations:  extra ones!  for guests!  We sort of made these turkey/fan ones from Martha Stewart, but how they got the "tails" to stick on like they did was beyond me.  

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We put a line of glue on the bottom of the fan to hold the creases together and glued it to the turkey butt and called it a day.

Thursday

Cleaning: It's not a craft, but it is an art, amirite?

Friday

Hopping corn: a less dangerous version of the baking soda-vinegar combination and it was REALLY COOL.  The popcorn bounces up and down.  I don't know.  I'm easily amused.  

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How was your week?  Good Thanksgiving?  Do you make turkey… or lasanga?  Just pie?  

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Note: just watched a super violent with this guy in it and couldn't place where I'd seen him before. 

Laughed and laughed at his departure from Olde England.

 

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