Home Made Goo

Alright, here's something easy and without a doubt worth hours of fun... mix equal parts of regular all purpose glue with liquid starch and add a few drops of your favorite food coloring, stir vigorously for a few minutes and let it sit for another few... what do you get? GAK! Yummy, delicious, squishy, stretchy GAK! And this version doesn't stick to everything like others have... We made some at children's class a few weeks ago that looked like wonderful, fluffy scrambled eggs... you know the kind they serve you at McDonalds or on airplanes some times. Well the last night that Aria, James and Sasha were at the house we pulled a few different versions out from "the lab" (a section of the basement that Amán has so aptly named) for little Sasha and had hours of fun. We had GAK of course and we also had another version made with glue, water and borax powder that we called OOBLEK (or Dr. Zeus did). Here are some some fotos of our romp through icky-squishy land. Please visit the Pyburn's site for more photos of their visit. None of this or the pictures really capture the mellow-yellow but fantastic connection we all had/have. Thanks again guys for coming out to see us and for allowing me to meet my niece (you guys are great and all but she was the point on the compass I was centered on...)!!! We will be praying that God's Will aligns itself with ours (oh wait, I think it's the other way around... :) ) and you guys land here close somewhere. I dropped them off at the airport at 540 am on sat morning and kept driving to NY to Dad's house where I crashed on their couch for and hour or so, chatted with Dad for about 45 min, drove across the river to chat with Grandma and Doug a bit, picked up a computer I just bought from Shamsi (thanks again cuz... I am excited to set my little recording studio up) and then I drove back home the 2.5 hours... A bit grueling but worth it. I also include a pic of the other goody that Mom sent up... pinito the creamer we use in CR for our coffee (and it's wonderful on copoz [snow cones] on a hot summer day mmmmmmm...). We also found out what makes it so good compared to the stuff we bought here once. We can only get low or non fat powdered milk. Pinito is 100% whole milk in powder and hence the delicious creamy yumminess that doesn't cool down a good cuppa in the mornings....... Life's good... Today it was back to the grind. They pulled me back on to the high stress, high visibility program and everyone is loosing their minds over the schedule and deadline we are going to be very hard pressed to meet. More later.