Simple white blinds

White faux blinds. Just seeing them on my windows makes me happy! Why? Well, when we bought our house, all the windows had the cheap, white, plastic blinds on them. Well, most of them are semi white. Half of them are very yellowed from the sun. But they work. They cover the windows. They do the job. But they just don't look very attractive.

Gradually, over time, we are replacing those old blinds with 2 1/2" white faux wood blinds. Right after we moved in, I started researching and pricing the faux wood blinds. And soon discovered, that replacing them was going to happen gradually, not at all once. Partly because we have A LOT of windows and several of them are rather large. Like 93" wide large.

The first one we replaced was in our family room...one of the large 93" windows. I ordered them from Blindsaver and we loved them! Totally changed the look of the room! Next, our bedroom blinds. Again, the window is 93" and had two sets of smaller blinds covering the window. We replaced it with one set of blinds and we totally loved it!

And now....we replaced the guest room (I broke the ones in there while cleaning the window), sewing room, my office and front living room downstairs. Ahhhh.....soooo much nicer! Especially my office. When we moved in, that set of blinds was broken, so I've never had blinds in here. The afternoon sun hits my computer in such a way that makes it non-usable for a couple of hours each day. So to have blinds that I can shut out the sun during that time is fabulous!

Every time I see those white blinds....in my office or bedroom or anywhere else, I smile. 'Cause I just like them that much!

Really? More snow?

Yes, more snow. It's April 23rd and this is the view out my office window.  It looks like it's the middle of winter. This is the fourth week of snow every single Tuesday/Wednesday. Really! It's quilt comical. Over the weekend, the weather warms up to around 50 and then snow blows in on Tuesday and the temps drop below freezing. Four weeks in a row this has happened!

The forecast for this weekend is sun and 60 degrees! I'm soooo excited!! Let's just hope it stays that way into next week and we don't have a fifth week of Tuesday snow! After all, it's April! ;)

The "ahhh" look!

I love the "ahhh" look on kid's faces. It's that look of pure joy that comes the instant they realize and fully grasp what you are saying or teaching. It's that "it clicked" moment. I love, love, love it! Over the years, I've seen many of those "ahhh" moments, but I never get tired of seeing them!

And many times, that "ahhh" look appears with the most simple of things. Such as yesterday in children's choir.

At the beginning of children's choir, we have pictures that we color. The newest trend with my preschoolers and kinder kids are pencils. You see, pencils are different than crayons. They are more grown up. They are the next step up in writing instruments for this age of kids. In addition to that, they can be sharpened, whereas crayons can't.

Yep, sharpened. Once they discovered the sharpening feature that pencils are capable of, it has become a weekly tradition to sharpen pencils during choir. Whether they need it or not. ;) The sharpening of pencils was an "ahhh" moment a few weeks ago, but yesterday was another one with the other end of the pencil: the eraser.

Crayons are the primary writing tools with these kids, so the new thing with pencils is not only the sharpening feature, but also the eraser. This was our conversation:

Sam "What's this?" Pointing to the eraser end of the pencil.
Me "It's an eraser."
Sam "Why?' It's his favorite word that follows just about everything you say! ;)
Me "The eraser lets you erase something that you drew with your pencil."
Sam "Can you erase my nose?" He had pencil marks that created a nose of the guy playing a flute on our coloring sheet.
Me "Yes, now watch. When you use the erase on his nose, it's goes away!"

At the moment that the nose disappeared, his very intent and interested face lit up. Wow!!! What a concept! Erasing anything on the page that was drawn in pencil! You do know what happened next, don't you? Uhh, huh....every single pencil mark on his coloring page was now being visited by the eraser.

Lol! Who would have ever thought that a pencil could bring such pure joy?!