Kute Kittens

I've had Tosha since she was at least 6 weeks old, picked her up from the side of the road, where someone put her out, back in 2009. She used to be my baby, until she had babies of her own at 6 or 7 months. Once pregnant, she became distant, but still likes to be babied some, especially after she's had a litter. She just had her 4th litter almost 5 weeks ago.

 Meet Trixie, Roly-Poly and the Un-named. Trixi is my baby, I'm giving Roly-Poly to my younger brother, because the one I gave him last year was killed. Roly-Poly was named by my kids, because he loves to roll, alot! My brother was visiting us last week, and said the kitten could keep that name :). Un-named is literally unnamed, because I'm giving him to my mother for her birthday. I also gave her a kitten last year, and a snake killed him last week. She's never loved a cat like she has that one, and she's so upset about losing him. Anyhoo, on with the pics :)

 Tosha's been keeping the kittens in our shed, feeding them several times a day. We've been going in their, petting them and getting them used to human contact, since early last week. We even tried to have them stay inside, but hubby and 10 year old have asthma. The kittens started getting to both of them, so I moved them back to the shed the day before yesterday.

Today, we took them to the back yard, and let them run around, and play. Roly-Poly and Un-Named are both a little jumpy, but Trixi isn't afraid of anything.

 We're gonna try and move Trixi back inside once she's 6 weeks old, because we think the other two may be what's bothering hubby and 10 year old. Since the kittens  are so differently colored, we're thinking Tosha may have concived back to back, from two different males. This is her first litter with a tabby, all the other litters were from a black and white stray, that stirs up the entire family's allergies. The male tabby is the neighbor's cat and has never bothered our allergies and asthma.

Anyhoo, just thought I'd share what we were up to today, besides the norm (schooling and such).

~Until next time, God Bless!

Today's Homeschool Craft Project: Recycled Crayons

Today, we decided to have a craft class session. We recycled crayons for this session, using these  instructions from My Magic Mom.

We've always thrown away the broken crayons, then I found this blog on Pinterest this morning, and we decided to give a whirl. We really enjoyed it, and now we know what to do with broken crayons :).

This Week's Homeschool Home Economics Project - Homemade Play Doh

Ingredients include: 1 cup flour, 2 tsp. cream of tartar, 1 tbsp. cooking oil, 1/2 cup salt, 1 cup water, and food coloring (optional). 

Directions: Mix the flour, salt, ad cream of tartar together. Mix the cooking oil and food coloring in the water, and add to dry ingredients. Stir and pour mixture in an electric skillet or non-stick pan on medium heat ( I don't have either, so I sprayed my stainless steel pan with cooking spray). Stir constantly until dough pulls away from sides of skillet or pan. (This process usually takes 3 minutes - according to recipe, it didn't for us, probably 1 minute and a half). Empty dough onto wax paper (again, I don't have any, so I used aluminum foil). Knead until smooth and cool. Store in zip-lock bag (or a bowl, like I did).

Kids and I just made this, it was a ton of fun!!

P.S. We used red and blue food coloring, to make a lavender color :)

Practically Guilt Free - No Bake Pizza

Kids and I just made this for our supper, twas delicious!!!

Ingredients include 8oz. low fat or fat free flavored cream cheese, 1 cup low fat or fat free sour cream, 1 whole wheat Italian pizza shell, 1 (12 to 12.5 oz) can drained grilled chicken, chopped yellow, green, red, and orange bell pepper, chopped baby carrots (optional), chopped red onion (optional), and quartered cherry tomatoes. (I didn't measure the veggies, just filled the pizza up to our liking), and 1 cup bacon toppings.

Directions: Mix cream cheese and sour cream together, well. Spread mixture evenly over pizza shell. Top pizza with chicken and veggies, then sprinkle the bacon over the pizza.