A hair-raising good time…
The week before Christmas the Spouse was giving the girls a bath when he created this masterpiece:
The week before Christmas the Spouse was giving the girls a bath when he created this masterpiece:
These are a few of my favorite quotes from this week… The Preschooler {speaking to the Toddler}: I have an idea! We can play the Princess and the Frog. I know! I’ll be the Princess and you can be the frog. Could it be that she’s a firstborn? The crazy thing is, the Toddler excitedly…
This week the Toddler came home with a Fitness Award from her preschool-MDO class. Of course, when you’re two, everyone wins a fitness award of some sort, but this one made us especially proud when we read the list of skills necessary to receive the certificate. We decided to have the Toddler perform each…
In a recent post about my current clothing dilemma, I was a little harsh toward Ann Taylor. I was actually starting to feel bad for being so hard on Ann since I do have a fondness for her store and its faithfulness to pull me through many a wedding, bridal tea, rehearsal dinner, etc. in…
Last night I told the Preschooler to wait for me downstairs while I got the Kindergartener tucked in and settled into bed. Approximately two minutes later I came back downstairs and discovered this: Yes. Soundly asleep on the stairs. And, this is now my goal for the summer: to stay outdoors enough and to play…
This past Sunday would have been my dad’s seventieth birthday. It’s hard to believe how much life he has missed in the almost ten years since he’s been gone. With each year that passes it gets harder to remember details, so I always enjoy it when the girls ask questions that trigger vivid memories of…
Since we’ve been on spring break this week {which is really the opposite of a break when your kids are 5 and under}, the girls and I have spent a considerable amount of time outside. Given that we’ve only been here a few months, the backyard is still new enough to the Toddler and the…