Yesterday I threw Mimi a birthday party on a very limited budget and proved to myself that fun is NOT about the price. I entertained 10, 8 or so year olds as follows. Party 12-3. 12 - 1 eating spaghetti and doing the craft project. 1 - 2 played games - guess what animal I […]
Yesterday Marc and took our girls to see American Girl’s Movie- Kit kittredge. I knew it involved a girl in the depression era and also knew that the main actress - Abigail Breslin - is a child actress I have enjoyed. But I didn’t know much about the plot and was actually planning on slipping […]
I seem to be having a streak of wanderlust - a serious one. I like my home - but things like VW campers - teardrops and airstreams have been capturing my imagination.
Perhaps it is because when I was 7 I toured Europe in a VW campervan for 4 months with my brother and father. It’s […]
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It’s all about the cards! This is the year of the card. These are only a few samplings (including my own on top) that I gathered last night. I’m hoping to collect a lot more.
I love that we are all exchanging cards. It’s nice to walk away from a conversation […]
I have a bad case of wanderlust. I am reading over guides of Caifornia weekend getaways as well as the best travel fiction collection for 2005. The former are actually possible doable adventures of which I’ll be lucky if I accomplish 2. Big on my list involve camping at the Petaluma KOA and trecking up […]
This past weekend - we ate dinner near our house, then put the kids in the car and drove up to Reno where we stayed at the perpetually cheesy Circus Circus.
We had a great time BUT I’ll never plan to drive that way […]
Before we realized we’d be in our present pinch - we had planned to make SXSW a family trip. So by the time I realized how crazy this was - the tickets were purchased and it didn’t make sense to do anythng but […]
Marc’s off to England - but this time only for a week. He goes away at least once a month if not more. I try and get him to take no more than a week away - but often it is longer. I find 1 week fairly manageable - but 2 gets hard. Mainly because […]
Today Mimi made a dinosaur diarama in coop preschool. It was adorable - 3 plastic dinos on top of blue and green playdough with some flowers mixed in. Picture to follow. Her smile as she showed me was priceless. And yes - I love that girl!!!! She was soo excited that Marc was coming home […]
Today I was reminded of why I joined our local mother’s group. I went to a playgroup at a fellow mom’s house and had a BLAST. I really like this woman - she is smart and tough and someone I can relate to in terms of the whole motherhood thing.
Being a mother take you […]
Yesterday Mimi and me made some cute xmas tree ornaments using Model Magic . It was a perfect project for her 2 and 3/4 self. This was a suggestion from my mom - Thanks Mom!
This past Sunday, I was pleasantly surprised at my local farmers market by a demonstration of recyclable art projects for kids.