Homemade Playdoh Recipe

I don't know about your children, but I know mine believe that mixed play dough is the only kind we should have. I really do not like when the colors get mixed. Lately the play dough we have is all mushed between a couple containers and there is hardly any of the same color visible in each blob. I decided it is time to refresh our play dough! I have a recipe for play dough from my Aunt and I love it! It works great and takes about 5 minutes to cook and then another few minutes to color. Of course you can add the color while cooking it and get it done quick but I like to make more than one color at a time and so I usually do a double batch and then divide and color it once it is done. Here's what you need to make homemade play dough.

1 cup flour

1/2 cup salt

2 teaspoons cream of tartar

1 Tablespoon oil

1 cup water

food coloring

saucepan

wooden spoon/strong spatula

We are so thankful.

Each year we have a little decorated tissue box that we stuff with little notes that say what we are thankful for during the month of November and we read them on Thanksgiving day. Nothing wrong with that. Of course I have been collecting them and because of lack of space was trying to decide whether or not to toss them. So I decided to take the previous years (some of them at least) and put them on a piece of fabric on the table and then covered that with vinyl. This way we talk every day, at each meal, about not only what we are thankful for this year, but in the past too. It has been fun and I am very glad I didn't decide to junk them. I plan to do this again next year, incorporating this years as well. :)

Loving life!

My 7 year old is taking riding lessons and today was her 3rd lesson. She has been learning to ride on a lunge line and has been walking and trotting without hands to help her learn balance on the horse. Well today she learned to post trot without hands and she did VERY well!! I am so very proud of her and a tad jealous in the whole, "I wish I could have done this when I was younger so I will live vicariously through my child" kind of way. She loves riding (as I knew she would!!) and is doing very well so we are looking into buying her boots, a helmet and some kind of breeches. Fun = expensive when it comes to horses and the more fun it is, the more money it costs!! Oh well. I would pay for it 3 times over to see the look on her face!

I just wish her sister was as thrilled...and I am sure she would have been had she not been FREEZING!!

Life is good. What more could I ask for?