This past weekend was wonderful. We had my friend Becky and her kids, S and E come visit. My girls were all over them! We played, we stayed up late, we bummed around the house, we went to the aquarium, we played at the beach, I think we did it all!

This is why I didn’t write! They were here until yesterday morning. That is when I could close up the mess at our house and start focusing on me again. Okay- Not REALLY. First, I need to focus that Soleil is turning 7 tomorrow! And we have a birthday party planned at our house Saturday. The theme, I kid you not, is "Science". So far, we have four experiments:

1. Make Flubber from glue and borax: how a polymer changes into a matrix with basic chemistry
2. Acids and bases: Using cabbage juice as a detector, show how common chemicals in the house have acidic or basic qualities.
3. Which Lifesaver? Blind fold the child, Have them hold their nose while tasting a life saver candy. They won’t be able to determine the flavor! Have them unplug their nose and try it. How the senses are connected.
4. Making some ice cream! Yum!: Using ice, salt, light cream and vanilla, have the children make their own ice cream. 

I am hoping to find a bottle to do the "egg in the bottle" trick and to do the vinegar and baking soda to inflate a balloon. That last one should be easy.

Then I am making a volcano cake (complete with exploding orange jello at the serving time) and we’ll have pizza as well.

I hope this works!

In other news, I skipped the gym Sat/Sun/Mon and Tues. Going today and hoping to make up for a very sloth self!