Minne-Stories from Minnesota: Resolution Update...

Well it's the end of February and I haven't gotten around to updating the world on how our "New Year's Resolutions" are coming.
January began with the Town of Granite Falls, MN holding their annual Ole and Lena Day's Festivities (only in Minnesota right...) The town had various activities planned out including a Medallion Hunt and ended the week with a Buck Euchre Card Tournament. So we thought it would be fun to search for the Medallion and maybe try and win the prize. We had done such events in college so we figured "What the hey." One after noon later of searching (well about an hours worth actually) We found the first Medallion worth $100 Granite Dollars. It got our picture in the paper too, Check it out!!!!

As you know January's resolution was to read a book together. We chose to read

The Resolution: for Men and Women the book is based off the movie Courageous which came out last year. Check out your local movie shop for a copy or Family Christian Stores. Anyway, I learned one thing from reading this book during January and it was never try to read a book during the school year because you don't have time if you are a teacher. Between the prepping for classes and the grading. I read probably two chapters out of the book.What I read I liked and will definitely pick up the book this summer and re/read it. Jos got a little farther than I did but she also was unsuccessful. Hey now we all know most people forget about their resolutions by February anyway so we are still doing good.

February's Resolution: Knit/Create Something was a little more of my style anyway. I also had the perfect opportunity to "create something" while attending a teacher in-service day at school. It was our "wellness" in-service meaning the topics discussed centered around being healthy both physically and mentally while at school and helping students do the same. The day for me was broken up into 5 segments, we began with a speaker from Washington D.C. who is an actress who helps get the message across that students come to school with a ton of "baggage" and we as teachers need to help them through some of that "baggage." Next came my favorite part. I chose to take a mini-art class from the art teacher and create three drip paint tiles. It was so fun and kinda cheap too. We first started out with three white tiles you can find at a Menards and then took oil based paints and dripped them onto the tile. You can use all sorts of variations to create these pieces. First one (in the middle) was just a drip only method and then scratch it around with a paper towel. Second I use a paint brush to achieve a different texture (green) and finally the last Mixed the two together and came up with the last creation.