Musings of a Mom…

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So, I have a 5 year (and 12 and 14 year olds, too, but this pertains mostly to the 5 year old).  But I have learned that consistency is it.  Whatever you choose to use as a means for disciplining your children, be CONSISTENT!  Parenting is a hard enough job, so don’t make it any harder than it needs to be.  I’ll ost our “time out rules” in a later post!

Here’s a good article!  And some highlights from it…

1. Pick your priorities.
2. Brace yourself for a long haul.
3. Write reminders.
4. Time it right.
5. Expect resistance.
6. Don’t try to go it alone.
7. Make a point with wiggle room.

Yes, these are similar to these…  =)

Apple Pecan Chicken Salad

Ingredients

• Choice of salad greens
• Red & green apples, diced
• Blue cheese crumbles
• Cranberries
• Roasted pecans
• Vinaigrette Salad Dressing (like Newman’s Own Lighten Up Raspberry & Walnut Dressing)

Baja Salad

Ingredients

• Choice of salad greens
• Pico de gallo
• Guacamole
• Chili
• Shredded cheddar and Pepper Jack cheese
• Tortilla Strips (like these)
• Dressing (whatever, but I suggest Ranch, Newman’s Own Lighten Up Light Lime Vinaigrette or Newman’s Own Lighten Up Sun Dried Tomato Dressing)

Spicy Chicken Caesar Salad

Ingredients

• Romaine lettuce
• Grape tomatoes
• Shredded Asiago Cheese
• Breaded spicy chicken chunks or strips
• French bread croutons
• Newman’s Own Lighten Up Caesar Dressing

BLT Cobb Salad

Ingredients

• Choice of greens
• Crumbled Applewood Smoked Bacon
• Blue Cheese Crumbles
• Hard-boiled Egg, Diced
• Tomato, Diced
• Avocado-Ranch, Creamy Ranch or Ranch Dressing

Enjoy!  =)

Here’s my preview:

I offer up 15 300dpi full-size personal use .jpg papers and 17 300dpi personal use .png elements.

Download my parts here:

Elements, Part 1 (32.3MB)

Elements, Part 2 (34.5MB)

Papers, Part 1 (46.5MB)

Papers, Part 2 (58.9MB)

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Have fun with this train, we all hope you like it a lot!

The Scrappin Cop posted these free CU elements and said she thought the colors of them might be hard to match.  So I created a whole bunch of digi-papers to match….at least I think they match!

Here are some samples:

Download 36 PU (personal use) papers here: Papers (46.7MB)

I hope to create and add elements later!

Someone wanted to see my past Cricut projects, so here they are!  Well, most of them…as I find more on my computer, I’ll add them to the post.

Random school-ish cuts for the Assistant Principal of the elementary school:

Leaves for the elementary school – they built trees on the wall and put the students names’ on the leaves whenever they achieved whatever it was they were doing:

Made a stamp at the end of the year with the Cricut then stamped it onto Cricut-cut leaves and attached to seed packets for teacher appreciation end of year gifts:

Glass-etched initial glasses wedding gifts (glass etched using Cricut, SCAL, vinyl and etching cream):

Wedding gift bag tag and homemade card:

Palm tree for PTO Bulletin Board:

Name sign/”established” sign (hangs over our bedroom doorway):

SCAL-designed and cut business card holder:

Birthday card:

“Faith-Hope-Love” wall art:

Cricut “bug” logo (used Schoolbook Plantin cartridge) – he’s laminated and hanging on a suction cup in my vehicle:

Ornament:

Hope these help you, Tiff!!!