3-year-olds love hunting for eggs — sometimes they have trouble finding eggs that are “hiding in plain sight”! 3-year-old and 7-year-olds scampering for Easter eggs. Where’s the 10-year-old you might ask? She OPTED out of the Easter egg hunt! She…
Category: Family Holiday Time
Easter Egg Dyeing
Growing up in England…I have no recollection of dyeing Easter eggs. I remember eating chocolate. Giving my sister a Cadbury’s chocolate egg, but not dyeing Easter eggs. So perhaps it is an American tradition. We started dyeing Easter eggs when…
Fooled You: April Fool’s Day Post
To the best of my knowledge I have never pulled off an April Fool’s prank. Not as a child, not as an adult. Until now. I posted yesterday about various phenomenons that are mysterious, including the Sasquatch. I concluded by…
Star Wars and 5-Year-Old Boys
At Halloweentime my son announced that he wanted to be Darth Vader. I found this odd since he had not seen any of the Star Wars films, nor expressed much interest in Star Wars. In the weeks before Halloween he…
Love Thursday: Reindeer Food
My middle daughter brought home a ziploc bag of reindeer food her first year of preschool. At the preschool Christmas party she made reindeer food using glitter and oatmeal. She is now 10 and we still make it. This year…
The Last Gasp of Christmas
Razor ride-on…here comes Crafty Daughter! Pajamas on Christmas Eve. Two-wheeler time for Adventure Boy. Toe socks and flip flops, but of course. Christmas will officially conclude tonight as Crafty Daughter has her volleyball Secret Santa dinner. It has been a…
I Bet You Didn’t Know I was Crafty…
Angela Moore over at A Month of Stuff featured my post. Check it out: https://amonthofstuff.com/2008/12/31/mom-on-the-run-31-days-of-holiday-crafts-day-31/
Little Boys and Star Wars Toys
My 5-year-old (aka Adventure Boy) is enamored of all things Star Wars. Two months ago he barely knew Star Wars. His new obsession happened around Halloween. He insisted that he wanted to be Darth Vader. How could he know who…
Merry Christmas from My Blog to Yours: Better Late Than Never
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christmas Happened at Our House In Spite of My Procrastination
I’m Baaaaccckkkk! So, did you miss me? What?? Chirp, chirp, do I hear crickets? All kidding aside I gave myself a little blogging break. Have not posted since Wednesday. I wanted to post my Christmas photo of my children late…
