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We need a hobby…

Posted on November 9, 2011 by kimi

We seriously need a hobby. We spent 6.5 total hours at the ice arena last Sunday. All three kids are now playing hockey. I was there from 915am – 11am with just Tim and Squeaky…and then all 5 of us were there from 4pm – 830pm. We even packed dinner to eat between the older kids games. So after all that hockey…you would think we would be “hockied” out. But no, we got home at 8:45 Sunday night after all that hockey and sat around the kitchen table eating brownies and ice cream and doing guess what…TALKING ABOUT HOCKEY!!!

Off the record, I loved it. I loved hearing the kids all pipe in about how they thought each other had played that day. I loved seeing the joy on their faces when THEY talked about what they thought they had done well. Hopefully I will post some pictures soon!

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The Lost Hero

Posted on June 14, 2011 by kimi

The Lost Hero, written by: Rick Riordan, is so awesome.

I like it for the adventure, and I have always liked Greek Mythology.

I have read it almost 10 times, and I have read The Lightning Theif, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. This is my favorite book series.

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Dork Diaries

Posted on June 9, 2011 by kimi

Dork Diaries, written by Rachel Russell, is a 282 pg. book. It is cartoon so is fairly easy. It’s about a girl named Nikki Maxwell who just moved in and her mom got her a diary, but she really wants a phone. Her opportunity to earn money for a phone appeared one day. An art contest with the prize of $500. But Mackenzie Hollister makes life to hard. She also meets a cute guy named Brandon. And when she meets people who don’t like Mackenzie either they become BFFs.

This is the third time I have read this book. I very much recommend it. It is good for people who want to laugh or think their life is bad. Trust me nothing compares to her life. I mean she has a 6 year old sister named Brianna who is scared of the tooth fairy and pees in her bed.

~Ememdabom

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Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows

Posted on June 7, 2011 by kimi

Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, a Dear America book, is very good throughout the whole book. The sad part is it’s only 129 pages.

It’s about Amber and how her dad’s job makes them travel alot. This time they move to Hawaii. She writes in a different diary every time they move. Her mom is pregnant and has to eat right but when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor the town goes quiet and most stores have lines outside because they are only letting 2 or 3 people in at a time, so it’s really hard and they are greatful when people bring fresh grown vegetables for Christmas. It was a funny, sad, and an exciting book.

~Ememdabom

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Bloody Jack

Posted on June 7, 2011 by kimi

Bloody Jack, a 290 pg. book written by L.A. Meyer is a really good book. It is dull in the beginning but still good. It gets exciting when she joins the HMS dolphin as Ship’s boy.

My favorite part is when Jaimy figures out Jacky is a girl and is relieved he isn’t crazy and not turning gay. I recommend it even though its a 12 and older book.

~Ememdabom

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My kind of problem

Posted on June 7, 2011 by kimi

If you HAD to have a problem, I mean really, you had to pick one…I have just the ONE!

I have an 11 year old who won’t stop READING! I have grounded her, I have hidden her favorite books, but she just won’t stop!

She devours books. She lives for them really. If she isn’t sleeping or reading, she is telling me about what she just read!

Because of her love of reading I have decided to let her use my blog to help her with her reading. She reads so much, and so fast that I thought if she took a break between each book to write about what she had just read, it would give her a new way to express herself.

So, Spilled Milk will be having a guest writer, my 11 eleven year old! Though I call her Bug, she is going to be going by “Ememdabom.”

So if ya need a problem…you can borrow mine. A girl who LOVES to read!

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I almost kissed the UPS man…

Posted on November 3, 2010 by kimi

And I totally would have too! Except it was probably another 30 minutes before I knew I had the right accessory…and the guy was long gone.

Last year for Christmas my loving husband gave me a kitchen appliance as a gift. Most men would fear this gift, but mine was smart. He gave me my long over due Kitchen Aid Mixer! I couldn’t wait to get it out of the box. Which was when I realized it only had the flat beater…I had no wire whisk or dough hook. Now I know you are reading this going “come on lady, you got your mixer. Be happy!” But you see without those accessories, you are so limited in what you can do! I can live without some of the attachments, like the pasta maker. (for now, at least) But I wanted to do more than just bake a cake!

My husband gave me the go ahead to order my two accessories. I went online to Sears.com. I ordered what they had…and when the day came and they arrived…they didn’t fit! I was devastated! I was waiting and waiting to make some cinnamon rolls that everyone was talking about, but I had no dough hook.

I kind of forgot about the two pieces for a few months. It was summer, I kind of forget about baking in the summer. And then a few weeks ago cinnamon rolls recipes started popping up again. I searched and searched and couldn’t find the part number that went with my model. K4SS wasn’t found anywhere!! I emailed kitchenaid and they never responded. I was beginning to hate my mixer! It seemed silly to have this stand mixer if I couldn’t DO anything with it!

I went back to Sears.com and tried again. There were some new items added to the kitchenaid search and low and behold…today when that UPS man delivered that pretty brown box to my front door inside were the attachments that fit MY mixer!!!!!!

Good thing that man was already miles away, or I probably would’ve kissed him!

Soooooo, my mixer is K4SSWH it’s a bowl lift type…and the Dough Hook that fits is K54DH and the Wire Whisk is K5AWW. I know you didn’t need to know that…but then again, maybe you did.

Now I can go make my cinnamon rolls!!

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Squeaky reads

Posted on November 3, 2010 by kimi

Squeaky has been practicing for quite some time in kindergarten. And she has known her letters and her sounds for almost two years now. But she has been soooooooo extremely shy to read outloud to anyone other than me, or when I have tried to record it…well she froze.

Last night when I put Squeaky to bed, she just wasn’t tired. So after I read her a chapter for the book I was reading to her, I handed her this book for her to “try” on her own. I knew she could do it without any help and the confidence boost might just be what she was looking for.

I could hear her yelling to me from her bed “Mommy, I know these words!” I was so proud of her. And happy for her. She fell asleep last night after reading this book to herself outloud many many times. Never once asking me for help.