We’ll return to our regularly scheduled Dabbled this week, but first some photos of the Cuteness on his first day of school. You’ll note he’s skeptical about this whole school thing, but we did manage to get a smile out of him finally!

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Boy starts kindergarten next week and we’re enjoying the end of summer vacation!

I have bunches of stuff coming up, including making your own citron vodka… so stay tuned!  In the mean time, go check out my latest recipe on Foodwhirl! (Vidalia Onion Shrimp Cakes!)

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So, a query for you more experienced parents out there:

The Boy just turned 5, and we’ve been wondering what and how much to do around beginning reading.   He loves to be read to — we read both picture and chapter books to him before bedtime every night, and he has a learning video game that he likes, that seems to have some basic phonics and sight words in it.  But he’s not really showing much interest in reading himself.   He can spell a few words, and is pretty good with letter sounds.  So I’m wondering… do we try to work…

Ok, for all you quilt experts out there, I have a query.

My mom just sent me up 2 quilts that she’s apparently had packed away in the attic forever.  One was made by my great grandmother, and is in pretty bad shape.  It’s fraying around the edges, and was (I’m assuming) a quilt made for using, not displaying.  The other was made by my Great Aunt Lottie, and it in much better shape.  Both smell musty, even after washing.

So, what the heck do I do with these? (Apologies in advance for the poor photos..) I need ideas! Do I try…

Today The Boy has his graduation from Pre-K!

Amazing how the time flies…

Here’s a few random photographs from this year! (some of them are from projects this year… Like: How to make Homemade Slime! The Perry The Platypus Costume Quick Project – Kids T-shirt Mod! Fun with Kids: How to do a photo safari Knight Costume for dress up fun!

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One of the fun activities that we’ve been doing, to try to get our little video game fiend (yah, he’s a born geek) out of the house is taking a ‘photo safari’–sometimes we call it a ‘photography field trip’… The 4 year old gets possession of mommy’s point and shoot camera, and we go for a walk–sometimes through the woods, sometimes through the neighborhood. I’m actually pretty amazed at some of his shots (many are pure luck, like achieving the rule of thirds because he wiggled his hands accidentally!) but I do find it fun to look at the world…

Ah Monday…   The weekend has come and gone, and what a fun weekend it was!  I decided to make Guinness Ice Cream (my special St Patty’s treat will be coming later this week!), so I needed some adults over to help me eat it…

So while the guys worked on a new terraced community garden, the chicks made icecream. Well, sort of… it took a long time, and there was a lot of waiting involved.

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Eventually, we all had homemade chili and cornbread in an impromptu kitchen dinner party.

Cornbread and Chili recipes coming this…

Yep, finally got around to uploading my pictures from Dragon-con. Here’s a little sampling (click to view bigger!) — Or you can see the whole set at Flickr. And there’s more stuff after the pics, so scroll down!

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I’m back in the world of the living now… thanks to everyone for all the good thoughts and well wishes while I was sick. I’m not TOTALLY 100%, but getting there.  However, I’m not quite up to creating fresh new content today, so here’s some things I thought you might like…

New in the Dabbled Flickr Group:

1. king crab dog bed, 2. Lauren heart on sleeve cuff bracelet 1, 3. donkeygame

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Sorry for being MIA for the past few days. For those who don’t follow me on twitter, I’ve had the flu. (Yes, I can still tweet from my blackberry with a 102 fever!) Apparently I’m getting better today, as I’ve managed to make it out of bed and to the computer. We’ll technically sitting on the bed typing on the laptop, but you know what I mean.

So I finally went to the Dr. today, and they confirmed that I do have the flu, probably/maybe the swine flu — apparently it’s so common these days they don’t routinely swab for…