Girlfriend's Got No Teeth

Annika yanked out her last front tooth a couple nights ago, and I just love the toothless grin. She talks funny now too.

I'm just glad that bonehead of a tooth fairy got it right this time.

P.S. Zoe just saw this post and she's having a fit because I called the Tooth Fairy a bonehead. Peanut Head told her not to worry, she'll still come for her teeth, just not Mama's.

Kodak Moments

I wanted to share some pictures with you today that pretty much prove that I'm all about the picture.

This first picture is Stinkerbell when she was about 14 months old, buried in the sandbox by her cousin, Felicia.  

As you can see, Stinkerbell did not like being buried and she was screaming and banging her little sand shovel on the sand, demanding that we get her out.

And where was I, you ask?

Well, behind the camera, of course. I ran to get my camera, and then I saved my baby from the nasty sand.

Oops, and here she is again, caught in a camping chair. That poor little thing.

She gets so mad. I see anger management workshops in her future.

And this one is Zoe Bug, on her second birthday, having her very first tantrum. Ah . . . the memories.

I was not helping her work through her anger either. I was standing there with my camera, telling her to kick her legs about a bit for better effect.

It makes for a great picture, don't you think?

Recipe Card Question Answered

Today I had someone ask me why when she uploaded my recipe cards to her photo center of choice, she was told that the resolution was insufficient.

After some research, I recommend the following procedure:

1) First click on the recipe card so that you get the best resolution possible, then drag it onto your desktop or do the right click thing and save it to your desktop.

2) Upload the jpg recipe card to your photo center of choice. I've found that having the recipe cards processed as pictures, they have much better resolution than if I were to print them at home. I'm all about the pretty, believe me.

3) Order the recipe cards as 5x7 prints. They were not created as a standard print size of 4x6 and they will not conform to that size. You will lose part of the recipe cards if you print them as 4x6s.

When I get my 5x7 recipe cards back from the photo center, I adhere them to a 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inch piece of card stock (half a full sheet), and slide it into a sheet protector of the same size for durability. Sometimes you can find the sheet protectors at your local office supply store, but I order mine in bulk online through KeepFiling.com.

UPDATE: You can also just laminate your recipe cards, which I recently started doing. Go here to read about it.