Let me tell you about my awards…

The science fair is done. Awards were given today and tonight, we parents can go and ooh and aah over our children's projects, bring them home and then find a time when the kids won't notice to trash them because they are taking up space.

(You do that too, don't you? Surely you don't save EVERY project?)

But because I'm behind the 8-ball, I never got to show you the finished products.

Let's start with the dreaded potato clock. Here is what my porch looked like Sunday afternoon…

But we pulled it off and created this…

I think it looks pretty good… especially since the kid doesn't have a design bone in his body… ok, so maybe i helped a little… but seriously, just with the typing. They were his ideas.

Nice title, don't you think?

And my kid has a sense of humor… just read that last line on the materials…

What I don't have a picture of is his conclusion… which started off with this… "Don't believe everything you read on the internet…"

The kid's a riot I tell ya!

And then there was the floating egg project by my lovely and talented, anal, perfectionist daughter…

The title isn't creative in and of itself, but it's what she wanted and she didn't want to hear any suggestions…. and the entire project was made with my scrapbooking supplies…

It WAS my idea to replace the 'o's with eggs. It took me 20 minutes to explain to her what I meant and she finally agreed that it would look cool…and yes, I realize that there are only 4 cups there instead of the 5 that we used… that's because after the SECOND trip to get photos developed I realized that I forgot to copy cup 0 on the disk… I said screw it, she didn't complain, so I didn't make a big deal out of it.

Everything… and I mean EVERYTHING is color coordinated on this including the brads that she used on the sides. It really did look nice…

Today, in the door they came with news that I, the best mom in the world, Sam won best effort. Can you believe it? (Personally, I think Matthew put forth more of an effort, but hey! I wasn't a judge.

And no, that wasn't an award for me, but this one is….

Amy at Permission to Peruse awarded me with this award and tickled I am.. Especially since I've not mentioned awards, at all, on my blog and I didn't have to pay her for her to give it to me.

This one really is mine… unless I have to share with the kids, since it is they who give me the most of my content…

Until next time…