Archive for January, 2010
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010Weeks can go by without a mention of a classmate’s birthday party and then, without warning, we have back to back parties on both weekend days. It can be draining. For me and for the children. We haven’t had a weekend without back to back parties in 3 weeks. that means we haven’t had a [...]
Father Daughter Dance
Friday, January 29th, 2010Tonight was the Girl Scout Father Daughter Dance. Annie and Kimberly were so excited for the dance. They have been talking about it all week. I bought them new dresses for the event the other day. Kimberly approved of her dress by saying that it was good and twirly. Annie loved her dress and said [...]
100th Day
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Today was the 100th day of Kindergarten for Annie and Kimberly. They had to make a shirt with 100 things on it. Kimberly’s shirt had 100 pieces of fabric fused to it. Annie had 50 pieces of fabric and 50 buttons hot glued on. They were excited to celebrate the day at school and had [...]
Mr. Mature
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Paul has been doing really well with his potty training and has fallen in love with wearing his Thomas underwear. He is almost perfect with potty training as long as you don’t put a diaper on him. If you put a diaper on him he assumes all bets are off and pees at will. He [...]
Fancy Free Skirt Tutorial
Monday, January 25th, 2010This is my first tutorial so please bear with me. If something is confusing leave a comment and I will try to clarify. First thing you need to do is pick 3 fabrics to make the skirt out of. You will not be able to use fat quarters on this skirt because you will need [...]
Bingo!
Monday, January 25th, 2010I have been going to Bingo at Fort McDowell Casino for about 10 years now. I don’t go very often, maybe 3 times a year. It is a fun night out and since I never win I just enjoy the time out. I couldn’t believe it on the first game when the first 3 numbers [...]
Can’t you tell us apart
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Today Bill and I were trying to pick through our memory to figure out which child something happened to. We had narrowed it down to either Annie or Kimberly. When they were such tiny babies we didn’t get a lot of sleep and neither of us have much of a memory of those first months [...]
Real pigtails
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Back in 2007 Mimi finally had enough hair to put her hair up in tiny pigtails. Today she finally had enough hair to do it up in “real” pigtails. She was so delighted. I couldn’t help but smile each time I saw her today. She is so cute!!!!!
No TV day
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Lately the kids have been getting into the habit of watching too much television. (Yes, I realize that 1-2 hours of TV is not a lot to the rest of the world but to me it is.) Paul has gotten so attached to TV that he doesn’t even play choo choo trains. He just wants [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Last week Annie and Kimberly studied about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in school. They learned about the horrible facts of racism in America. When they came home they were horrified. As soon as Kimberly started to tell me what she learned she got big tears in her eyes. She said, “and my little bro [...]
Craft Hope for Haiti
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010If you love to shop etsy.com and love to help out others in need this is a wonderful time to do both. Craft Hope is donating all proceeds from sales on their etsy site to Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. If you have are crafty and want to donate something you can contact them as [...]
Snow Trip #2
Monday, January 18th, 2010The last time we went on a snow trip we didn’t know what the day would someday mean to us. This photo was taken of our family December 9, 2007 in Flagstaff, Arizona. That is us on the day Paul was born half a world away. So going to the snow again was exciting. This [...]
My Kind of Guy’s Night Out
Friday, January 15th, 2010Last Tuesday was Guy’s Night at Madeline’s preschool, an event you may remember where the children bring the important fellows in their lives. To say that she was excited is an understatement—she had been counting down the days for weeks. I think it stemmed partly from following in her big sisters’ footsteps and partly to [...]
Quilted Love
Thursday, January 14th, 2010I have been busy lately creating some beautiful table runners and table toppers for the Valentine holiday. If you are interested in any of them you can find them at A Stitch of Mine.
Riding off into the sunset
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Today we were out riding bikes. Annie asked if she could try it with her training wheels off. I thought today was as good as any day to try it out. She was so determined that she could do it on her own. She was very wobbly and I held on for a while. I [...]
Sometimes you can’t
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010“Papa, I know you like this dress, but I just can’t afford it!” ~ Annie Annie told Papa this today when we were shopping. She was trying on a ton of items. This particular dress was $26 and I had said nothing over $20. I told her it was too expensive and she would have [...]
Helping himself
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010“Push Paul, push” ~ Paul Paul has been spending his time at home without pants in order for him to easily make it to the potty in time. He hasn’t had an accident yet and hopefully will begin to stop going in his diaper. (He still has to wear them when we go out and [...]
Calling in sick
Monday, January 11th, 2010Today Annie and Kimberly were feeling a bit under the weather. Both had very low temps and runny noses. I figured it better to just give them a day of rest than to send them and have them get worse. So far that has worked. They have rested on the couch and watched tv and [...]
Budget minded
Thursday, January 7th, 2010As our family grows and matures we are seeing a increase in our food bill. It is a delicate balance between healthy foods and the foods that are not super expensive. We have never been into eating organic foods. We believe them to be a waste of money and are no different than regular produce, [...]
The Boss
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010“Book me Dad” ~ Paul Paul said this to Bill tonight to let him know he wanted to read to him. The boy certainly knows how to communicate what he needs.
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