Tissue Pom Poms

I have been working on decorations for Xavier's birthday for about a month now and now his birthday is just right around the corner. Tissue Pom Poms are super easy, cheap, and cute!

1.) you will need about 8 sheets of tissue paper

2.) fold the paper in about one inch sections. Not back and forth. The sections need to be on top of each other.

3.) then secure it in the middle with a pipe cleaner or something similar. I used a paper clip for these.

4.) next, cut the ends off either at a point or rounded.

5.) then separate each sheet one at a time.

*at first one side will look flat just keep messing with it and tweak it to your liking.

6.) Last, tie a string through the pipe cleaner and hang it from the ceiling.

For some reason the pictures keep getting out of order after I post them.

What's it all about?

I have taken this past month to think about this blog to try to find a direction. Nobody reads it, because I mean who is interested in my life. People have their own lives full of their own crazy. I noticed the only time I really get any hits on my blog is on the craft post. So right now I am thinking of going that route and making it strictly a craft blog. I'm not certain about it yet. I'm going make my final decision by this weekend. The only other options are crafts and some personal things but more like something that I like or the boys sports or something really special. If not either of those then I may just leave it alone.

Therapy

Keelan went to his first therapy session today. She just asked us a lot of questions and Keelan played with toys. She had a timer and set it for 15 minutes and only let him play with one thing at a time. Which ever toy he chose he had to play with for the entire 15 minutes. After the timer went off he could pick another toy if he wanted and would have to clean up the toy he was playing with. She has all the toys organized on bins. All the cars in a bin, all the farm animals, dinosaurs etc. and he did great with it! I was shocked. I don't know how we'll he would do with it at home but I want to try it out. Right now he is going to go every 2 weeks. And we have goals set for 6 months out. He is going to see a psychiatrist in January and he may be able to help with his sleeping. I am just praying and keeping my fingers crossed that this works because I can't take much more.

Halloween!

So Halloween is one week from today. I love Halloween. Not as much as I love Christmas but it pulls a strong 2nd for sure. Some Halloweens I dress up most of the time I don't. This year my boys are going to a Halloween party which doubles as one of my friends baby's 1st birthday party. So they are excited about that. Malique is going to be a vampire football player ( was suppose to be a zombie football player originally but changed his mind. Even though is makes no sense who am I to say what he can be for Halloween. Keelan is going to be bumblebee the transformer and Xavier is going to be a monster. I have a mandatory managers meeting on Halloween day and they have requested we dress up and are having a costume contest. So I guess I have to dress up. I don't want to be the only one that isn't in a costume. Problem is I am so broke it isn't even funny! So I had to come up with something that could work with stuff I already have. We have a huge ugly scary pirate mask but I don't have an outfit to go and I'm not wearing that thing all day. So then I thought maybe I could be a woman from the 50's but I don't have a dress. So I decided to be a chola. A chola is a Latina gangster type girl I believe. But they wear plaid shirts khaki pants and bandanas. They are best known for their makeup though. The makeup is actually really beautiful. And I am pretty good at makeup so I'm excited. I'll be sure to post pictures!!!

This is a picture I got off the Internet. This is close to the look I'm going for.

Update: I did not dress up like a chola. I got nervous about it because it was a work party and I didn't want to be inappropriate. Once I got there and saw everyone else I wish I would have but I didn't I played it safe. I went as a football player. I looked super cute though. My babies had a great Halloween. We went to a friends neighborhood and walked with them. Xavier just wanted to be carried the entire time.

Pinterest!

I went into a Pinterest coma today. I seriously looked at it all day long! But I have so many great ideas and things I can't wait to try. Especially for Xavier's birthday. Here are just a few of the things I pinned today:

A beautiful Saturday!

We had a beautiful Saturday filled with football. I got 0 pictures of Malique tho :( He won his first game 12-25 and lost the 2nd 33-0. So they are out of the playoffs and the 5-6 can't go to the playoffs. Actually I'm excited that there is only one week left. I love football but it is a long drive and a lot of gas money. I look forward to not having to worry about that for a little bit.
I said on my last post that I thought Xavier's eyes were changing but I got some great pictures of those baby blues! I also got some pictures of Keelan one of which I had to bribe him with a candy bar to get him to smile. And an awesome shot of him playing under the bleachers with another little boy. One thing I can always count on with Keelan if there are bleachers he will be under them and if there is any source of water anywhere he will be in it.

A haircut finally!!!

Keelan got a much needed haircut today! It has been forever! It's not my favorite look of his but it looks better than no haircut.

Xavier looked so handsome today in his big boy outfit. I think his eyes are starting to change. They aren't as bright as they use to be.

Malique has a football game tomorrow morning. They have only won one game so I think it's safe to say they won't be on the playoffs. Unless they pull off some kind of football miracle. Their last game will be next Saturday. I have to say I am looking forward to not driving to Joelton 3 times a week.