On one of the days this week, we were greeted with sunshine. It felt like it had been a while since the sun had come out to play. Most of our days have been filled with gumboots, and extra sweaters. The warmth of the sun made my toes wiggle in anticipation of flip-flop weather. (I […]
We’ve been keeping up with our Responsiblity Charts, which is a wonderful happening. I didn’t know if the girls would embrace their charts or merely stick their tongues out at them (which is not entirely impossible, if you’ve been around us recently). Some of our daily goals...
We recently celebrated a birthday in our house. Lila turned four this past weekend, and we hosted a party for her at a local gymnastics club. I typically get all worked up about the details and take on a special project for a birthday. This year, I decided to make the fancy cupcakes I had […]
This morning, the girls and I stumbled downstairs (at 6:20 am, which is still considered “nighttime” to many), and found three small boxes of chocolate waiting on the kitchen island. The girls were thrilled! Dora and Diego chocolates in a heart shaped box!?!? Hooray! I was quite...
I have this idea in my head that I am good at organizing. Okay, hold on. I’ll just wait for my mother to pick herself up… I’m sure she’s rolling around on the floor laughing. I like to compare organizing to something like running, or throwing a ball, or painting rooms...
They sit in the sunlight, sharing dresses and sunglasses for their paper dolls. Each outfit becomes more absurd and each doll’s voice grows higher and sillier. Maddie’s fair skin shows traces of the “make-up” she carefully applied with felt marker while her mother...
Once upon a time, I was wandering around the internet, and a bunch of links took me to this picture: It’s an original piece from a blog called Creatrish. I loved it immediately, so I bookmarked the site, thinking about what I could do with it. Here is what I came up with, using some...
So it was raining and damp and grey out today, which meant that the kids and I were housebound. Normally, that’s not such a bad thing, but every now and again, cabin fever turns into cabin mania. I could no longer handle the shrieks and screams and the “That’s mine!” and...
