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11/25/2003 Archived Entry: "cheese taquitos"

Cheese taquitos are not easy to come by around here. They're even harder to find if you limit yourself to stores that aren't on strike. We have a Thanksgiving potluck at Mommy and Me tomorrow and I thought cheese taquitos would be a good idea. I searched 3 stores and called another 2 and had no luck. It's rather appalling some of the stuff in the frozen section that passes itself off as food though. I saw french fries that were covered in a Cocoa Krispies or Cocoa Pebble coating. That is just flat out disgusting. You don't mix potatoes and chocolate! The only thing I buy frozen is Boca Burgers and ice cream so it was real eye opener some of the garbage that's out there. Don't get me wrong, we're certainly not food saints, we can eat sugar cereals and salty snacks with the best of them, but we have a complete lack of knowledge of frozen "meals."

We went out to a nearby event. The morning team we listen to was broadcasting from a Best Buy 10 minutes away and were selling their annual Christmas cd and signing copies. We had originally intended to be there at 5:30am when they started broadcasting, but Chris didn't get home until 2:00am last night so I had no intention of waking him. We got there around 9:30am and there were 2 very long lines. One to buy the cd and one to get it signed. We called my bil on his cell phone and he was there so we were able to find him. He had already bought us a cd so we just watched the end of the show and then left. My bil stayed with his friend and they got the cd signed for us. Good Charlotte played before we got there, but we really don't care about them so have no problem with missing them.

Lessons went well today. I've decided to go ahead and do a lower case letter of the day for writing practice. We did 'a' yesterday and 'b' today. Mainly focusing on facing the letters the correct direction, she doesn't have enough control for me to really look at her formation of the letters. I've only seen her write one thing since we started practicing and she used all caps. I don't know if she's just not into writing right now or the letter practice has her down. I don't want to turn her off of writing at this young age, that's for sure.

We did two more math lessons today for a total of 9 lessons. Tomorrow we'll do a written and oral assessment of the first 5 lessons. Shouldn't be an issue for Tabitha to pass everything. The oral assessment asks 3 questions and the written is about 5 questions. And it's still all the easy stuff of counting and matching written numbers to actual quantities. This is stuff she's known for a couple years. But she's enjoying the lessons, especially when we did the hokey-pokey yesterday to work on Left and Right. She's anxious to get more into the book though so we can start using the clock and the balance.

I've decided to just wait until after Christmas to do the animal unit study and the map unit. I really don't want to give Tabitha the globe early. Once we add those two units we'll probably alternate lessons. One day of math and map skills then the next day will be animal and writing (or grammar).

Speaking of Christmas, we only have to get 2 more items for Tabs and then we're done. For her stocking we need a triangle (as in the percussion instrument) and Pin Art, which is one of those boxes that has rows of pins and you can press your hand into it to make an impression of your hand. She really wants one otherwise I wouldn't have thought of getting it. All she asks Santa for is a yo-yo and we've got that covered. I just hope she doesn't suddenly decide to ask Santa for something at the last minute like she did last year. We still need to get my sister something, though I'm pretty sure I know what, and the kids of friends of the family that we spend Christmas Eve with. We're going with gift certificates for 4 of the 6 kids to make it easier to stay within budget.