A Bedroom Composition

Here's a school composition I wrote today for a Grammar lesson.

Grammar Unit 9 The Paragraph Exercise 2. Describe your bedroom, putting the details in space order.

Lyddie's Bedroom

Where to start? Hmm how about right by the door and I'll go around the room.  Standing in the door way looking to the right would be my vanity. It's white, and has no mirror and is covered with miscellaneous things such as, fifty bottles of nail polish, my earring rack, a jewelry box filled with necklaces I never seem to wear, another box with silly bands, a bubble gum container holding my hair things, and other things that a girl can't live without. Well, I could probably get along without them fine. Next would be the drawers inside the vanity. I honestly have no idea what I keep in those. I think perhaps some note pads, phone numbers, and addresses.  Adjacent to my vanity is a tall, white, book case. The shelves on it are too small to store regular size books, so I keep small objects and very short books on it.   Next is my window overlooking the flat roof which is fun to climb up on. Yes, I've climbed up there a hundred times to over look the neighborhood. It's fun... but dangerous.  I have another book case on the other side of the window.  The top shelf accommodates my red stereo and C.D. rack which is full of... yes, you guessed it! C.Ds.  Now onward to the next shelf!  My all time favorite books have the place of honor there and on the third shelf as well. This shelf is situated at the foot of my day bed.  My day bed has a purple comforter, and is called a day bed because in the day time it is made up to look like a couch, sort of.   This makes it a sumptuous place to read.  In fact I've read more then half my books on my bed, (and looking at my book charts, that's a lot of books) but that is irrelevent to what I'm writing about.  The bed sheets are teal and I like the way this color contrasts with my purple comforter.  It's made to match my purple and teal walls.  With purple silk pillows all along the bed border, my bed looks inviting. Underneath my bed is Sarah's bed.   It rolls out and can be lifted to the hight of my bed.   On the floor in front of the beds is a flower patterned rug with a red paint stain in the upper left hand corner.  On my slanted ceiling, around the skylight, are cute faeries and butterfly wall stick-ons. To the left of that wall is Sarah's bureau and on it is a picture rack, and on the wall in front of that is a hanging picture bulletin board. Adjacent to all this is my closet, where I hang all my clothes, keep my shoes, and store a chest with my purses. On top of the chest, a card board box entitled, “Books to read for school” is filled with droves of classic books. If you explored deeper into my closet, you would find bins of my American Doll collection and a wooden door that leads into a small attic. Emerging from my closet to the left is a light switch, and yet another white book case.  This brings you back to my white door with the tattered Chronicals of Narnia poster. There, that completes the tour of my cluttered, but cozy bedroom. 

  ~ Lyddie 

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20

I've been assigned my part for the Shakespeare play!  I will be acting out Hermia, a main character.  I've got a lot of lines to memorize, so I'll be kept busy with that...

It's been real scary riding in the car now that Caleb has his permit.  But it's also sort of a relief,  because he got real annoying from talking about getting his permit for the last two years!!  But when you drive with him, then you start wishing he was 14 again. : )  I don't like driving with people who have less then 3 years of driving experience.  So, just a warning to you all, if you ever have a chance to drive with Caleb.... Don't take the chance.  Ha-ha, just joking.

I made my own T-shirts this week!  It was a lot harder then I had envisioned it to be.  I put an Owl City picture on one of them and then drew over it with fabric paint.  Despite the time it took to make it, it was fun!


With the help of my Aunt Ginny, I made this woodland faerie cake!

It's called a pumpkin roll and it's one of my favorite desserts.  The cake is suppose to look like a fallen tree log.  : )

~ Lydia
P.S I probably won't be blogging for awhile due to a full schedule this and next month.

I thought that when you get your braces off it would be the end of orthodontics appointments.  How wrong I was....I had to go pick up my third retainer today!   Anywho.... I'm doing this Shakespeare class with the homeschool group.   We're working on doing a Midsummer's Night Dream.  This winter we'll be putting on the play, but right now we're just reading through the book and doing different things each week.  As much as I hate acting, I'm loving it!   My favorite character is Titania, queen of the faeries.  I like her just because she's a faerie, not the character she plays.

I decided to go without meat for a whole month.  The day I pronounce my decision, Mom makes a turkey dinner.  : / This is going to be hard.  : )  My Aunt Ginny was over visiting yesterday along with other family.  She gave me a cute, yellow, smiley face mug.  I had a delicious cup of pumpkin spice coffee this afternoon in it.  One can't help but be cheered by this mug!

Moi riding Alfie.  I don't usually ride him, but I love cantering him, because it's like a slow motion canter.

Sarah picking Gorge's hoofs and grazing him.

This is the main barn where people board their horses.  Last Tuesday we gave baths to a couple of horses!  We got soaked, but it was all part of the fun.
My mom's co-worker gave us a black velvet riding helmet, crop, dressage whip, black britches, and cute horse socks. : ) We were very excited to receive them.

Ha-ha that's drôle!  French for funny. : )

~ Lyddie

Celebraces Time!

My dad and I filled these balloons with helium and I had to tie the knots in them.  Yes, my fingers were very sore afterwards.  

We had so much candy!  But hey, it was a braces off party!  We made up Sarah's playhouse to look like a sweet shoppe.

It looked really cool when it got darker outside because we put colorful lights on it.

Cute cupcakes eh?  I was so sugared-out that I didn't have one till the day after the party.

We played spoons out in the screened in canopy room outside.  Instead of using spoons for the game spoons, we used candy pieces.

Caleb, grilling our dinner.  He did a great job too.  Everything was superb.  Thanks, Caleb!

I had music playing during the party.  I made a mix of music, here's a couple of songs I  played.

Concerning Hobbits, ( song from LOTR.)
Star Wars theme song
Amazing Grace by Susan Boyle
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Rescue Aid Society song from the cartoon movie The Rescuers.
 A bunch of songs from Annie Get Your Gun.  And a Shirley Temple song, Animal Crackers in my Soup.  Quite a mix, huh?!

I planned a lot of fun games, and we went down to the field in my neighborhood to play two of them,  Ultimate Frisbee and Chicken Run.  Chicken Run's real game name is called steal the bacon, but since we  use a rubber chicken so we call it "chicken run".  And seriously, who uses real bacon to play that game anyway?  And if we did use bacon, I'd probably just eat it before I got it to my teammates!

One game we invented ourselves was played using my dental elastics (that I no longer have to wear...YA!).
It was a relay game, and the first team to stretch the elastics to spell the word "smile" won.  Oh, did I mention that the players had to ride stick horses back and forth, just to make it more silly.

We also played a version of "hot-potato" using chattering teeth & the music was Cantina from Star Wars.  We all decorated yellow t-shirts, most had a smiley theme.

I sent my guests home with party favors which consisted of toothbrushes, floss & toothpaste, so that their parents wouldn't be mad at us for feeding them so much candy.  : )   

Okay enough about the party.  Because I haven't blogged for a very long time I do have some events to talk about but that would take me a long time of typing and I don't have that time right now.  So I'll just end with this. My brother Caleb was baptized last Sunday at Craigville Beach!  It was a wonderful time and I was very happy for him.  Okay I'll be sure to blog again soon, I won't let it get to be a whole month  before I blog next time! ; )

~ Lydia Catherine
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20

 Sarah and I had a fun afternoon playing and fooling around outside.

 She put soap in the little pool because she was washing the van.

Then I picked up the hose and gave her a little "rinse." : )

Dad, Sarah, and I roasted marshmallows last night and this is the one I roasted to perfection.

But I also cooked the insides of it out as you can see from this picture.

Ha-ha.

Sarah and I play police when she rides her bike.  I'm making the symbol for her to stop but she usually ignores me and zooms right by.  : ) 

These are old movie posters I colored in.  

Gotta go now! 

~ Lydia 

Barnstable County Fair

 A billion little crabs...

These are some pictures of Rowan and me last Wednesday at Sampson's Island. We had the whole island to ourselves! We saw a billion little fiddler  crabs and it was so amazing to see them move so quickly into the beach grass. They were really loud, too.  We had a blast together.  

Last Thursday Dad, Dave, Josh, Caleb, Sarah, Sarah MacDonald, and I went to the Barnstable County Fair!  We saw a bunch of different animals and Sarah and I rode a camel!  It rocked back and forth with every step. : ) 

Here's pictures of all the animals we saw. 

 Kangaroos

 Cows

 Box Turtles

Sheep

 Bob Cat

Baby goat

 Beautiful horse with lamas.

 Funny monkey.

 I think this is a goat.  Dave and Sarah were feeding it.

400 hundred pound piggy. 

  It's a crocodile.

And some parrots.  Looking at the animals was a lot of fun and you could feed some of them but I would never do that.  You don't know what kind of germs and diseases they spread.  

We arrived at the fair at around 6 and left at 10:30.  After looking at the animal's pens we went to get some fried dough, which is very, very unhealthy, but delicious, food.  : )

 I also bought a dress made in India and some earrings from one of the vender's tents.  

 This is the dress. For some reason the picture is side ways...  When my mom saw this picture, she thought I had been raptured!!  LOL

And these are the earrings I bought.  

After eating, we headed to the midway aka where all the rides are. 

There were lines for every ride, so we had to wait 5 to 10 minutes every time.  Sarah and Dave went on the first ride, the Polar Express, which is a very loud ride!  The second ride Josh, Sarah, and I went on which was the Sizzler.  Sarah and I crushed Josh on that one, because he took the out side seat and we were thrown to the out side, therefore banging into Josh's side.  I always go on that ride, every year!

 Sarah McD and I on the Orbiter

Behind them is the Orbiter.  It rises in the air and spins you really fast.

Josh, Caleb and I.  Caleb not feeling too good about the ride, ( Pharaoh's Fury.)  That one was funny because Caleb was told that the ride doesn't give you the "sinking feeling" well, ha-ha it kinda does.  As soon as the ride started going up higher and higher he started freaking out and was having seizures.  He ended up passing out sometime in the middle of the ride.  He was fine as soon as he got off though.  ; )

Those are all the pictures!

Last week Dave and I went golfing.  It was my first time ever on a real golf course.  My first few swings, I missed the golf ball entirely.  I was just hitting up wads of dirt and moss.   It took me a while to get the hang of it.  We played an 18 hole game.  I really enjoyed it and would love to continue the sport.  Last night, ( Friday night) Caleb, Dave, Sarah MacDonald, and I went to the movies to see Cowboys and Aliens.  I loved it!  I'm pretty sure I jumped out of my seat for a couple of suspenseful scenes, and for some unexpected scenes, too.  : )

Some random photos...

Sarah snoozing..

That's just about it.  Nothing else to write about.

~ Lydia