Family Treasures
Brian loves rocks, as you probably know–but he didn’t know that I also liked rocks when I was a kid! While consolidating some jewelry and other special items into a new jewelry box, I came across my old rock collection. Brian was intrigued, looked at each rock, and separated them out by color. He even used Great-Grandma Legried’s beads to encircle and decorate them. 🙂 Brian was also surprised to see my “medals”–pins and such from various high school...
Read MoreKendall Painting
Kendall managed to fit in some painting time before school today! At dropoff, I noticed on her classroom window that she wants to be “a ballerina” when she grows up....
Read MoreDuplos, Family Dinner
Today the kids enjoyed playing with their Duplos, particularly making gigantic ice cream cones! This evening we had family dinner at Sue’s house, where she introduced us to her family’s BBQ recipe. No need for Manwich or sloppy joe mix, when you can make your own at home!...
Read MoreBrian the Dancing Goalie
Brian had a Lowes Build and Grow event this morning.. But the real action today came later, when he we received his brand-new hockey equipment! He was excited to try on his new pads, glove, blocker–and new game-grade Star Wars helmet! He said Kendall could have his street hockey Star Wars mask, and they modeled them together! We asked Brian to try moving around in his gear, and he started to dance! It was so great, we asked him to do it again with some music on! Hilarious. Later...
Read MoreSnow Day Again
I give up! Let’s try to work again in March, maybe, because we’re home again for yet another snow day. Fully half of February has been a wash, thanks to various disappointing forms of frozen water and related school closures. We’re all a little stir crazy, but did the best we could, staying busy with the giant Duplo castle, board games, lots of ponies on TV, and the hot cocoa flowed freely.. I even tried to get back in Kendall’s good graces by giving her a...
Read MoreEpic Snow, Epic Duplo Castle
Gahhh! Just when we thought we were done with winter weather, it’s back with a vengeance. Everyone was home again today, as we waited for the big flakes to start falling. And, fall they did–once they got going, we ended up with a pretty significant amount of snow (on top of the re-frozen slushy mess from the last round!) We kept busy with more origami, baking a loaf of lemon bread, Play-Doh, and Duplos–oh, what we built with Duplos..! The kids made all sorts of things,...
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