Christina Elton

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Butternut Soup

1 onion
1-2 cloves garlic
4 medium carrots
1 stalk celery
1 dash worchester sauce
Saute above ingredients
Cut, seed and peel one Butternut Squash
add to pan
6 cups water
4 t. chicken boulion
1/2 t. nutmeg
1/4 t. cumin
Cook and blend. Cook down one hour until thick.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Poems

Dewdrops

Hear the drip-drop

of the dewdrops

as they slip off

the leaves

and sing

by Christina Elton

A Mother's Wish

The delicate grasp of your tiny hands

make me long for a world

that will embrace you as I do now

by Christina Elton

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Survival Swimming

I found some info on infant swimming. I think it is important to teach survival skills and realize each kid is different and learns at different speeds. So, keeping that in mind here is a link with some useful info.

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall04/jenkins/twounder.html

or if you are interested in getting lessons:

http://infantswim.com/home.html