Showing posts with label Charlie Chaplin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlie Chaplin. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2025

Catching Up April 2025 part 2

April 12 was Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day and National Licorice Day. We celebrated by having both. We did have tomato soup with our sandwiches.

April 13 was National Peach Cobbler Day. Yes, I made some. I tried a different recipe that didn't use as much sugar. My peach cobbler loving child said he liked it so yay. Less sugar.
We had an at home potluck that evening. We haven't had one of those in while. Here are everyone's contributions from oldest to youngest: cookies, peach cobbler, pizza, pickles and cheese cubes, sparkling apple-grape, lemonade.
That day was also Palm Sunday. This year I tried to do a better job with celebrating Holy Week. The Church had some good resources for every day leading up to Easter. It was a good way to focus my scripture study.
 
April 14 was Look Up at the Sky Day. It was National Dolphin Day. It was International Laughter Day.
How did you celebrate?
 
April 15 was World Art Day. I went up Provo Canyon to get a look at a place that I think looks like a piece of art. When I was there on World Water Day, I got that impression so I wanted to enjoy it again.

Nichole sent me several art pieces she had to celebrate World Art Day.

I love that she uses different so many different mediums.

April 16 was Charlie Chaplin's Birthday. Who else puts rolls on their forks and makes them dance to celebrate?
P.S. It was also National Banana Day
 
April 17 was, in no particular order, Bat Appreciation Day, National Cheeseball Day, Blah Blah Blah Day, National Haiku Poetry Day, and National High Five Day.

This is what happens when I hand my daughter some seasoned cream cheese on these holidays.
This is what happens when I take seasoned cream cheese and ask my son what I should make.
Son: A penguin!
Me (after "sculpting"): I think it looks like a ghost.
 
Lucky was the one who let me know it was National High Five Day. I gave him a high five for that. Jeremy showed me a haiku or a few.
We had Blah Blah Blah for after school snack. Remember that? Apple slices with peanut butter and honey? Except lately we just use honey peanut butter instead of adding honey to regular peanut butter. 
 
That evening I went to a Relief Society activity and learned a new skill: embroidery. I've done a lot of counted cross-stitching in my past so some of the stitches were similar but there were definitely some things for me to learn.
 
The next morning, I had to wipe snow off my vehicle. Note the snow covered hills across the lake. Ah, that "Spring" weather.

Monday, April 29, 2024

Charlie Chaplin's Birthday

Charlie Chaplin's Birthday was April 16. When telling the kids to set the table for dinner, I told them to set two forks at each place. The reason? I showed the kids a clip of Charlie Chaplin making rolls dance on the ends of forks from the movie, "The Gold Rush." Why couldn't we do it, too?

Monday, April 16, 2018

Charlie Chaplin's Birthday

April 16 is Charlie Chaplin's birthday.  The kids celebrated by watching a Charlie Chaplin movie.  The older kids were nice enough to read the words that went with the silent film for the younger.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Charlie Chaplin's Birthday

April 16 is Charlie Chaplin's Birthday.
The kids and I brainstormed ideas for a silent movie to make together later.  Nichole had to prepare herself to get in the Hollywood creative spirit.

After most of the kids went to bed, I sat down to start watching a Charlie Chaplin film.  Lucky came up and wanted to sit on my lap.  It was so cute. 
We got some Charlie Chaplin/Buster Keaton films a few (more than 10) years ago and I finally got around to opening the packaging on the Charlie Chaplin movies tonight.  One thing about silent films, you just can't multi-task while watching them.  I can't work on a craft or sort socks when I can't hear the dialogue to tell me what's going on.  Sigh.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Chap Test


Google informed me today that it is the 122nd birthday of Charlie Chaplin (we had to explain to the kids that no, he is not actually that old, he is no longer living). I thought it would be a good time to put up a link to a video my brother did years ago. A little tribute to the style of those fun Hollywood silent actors. Enjoy.