They did enjoy themselves on the fieldtrip, which involved a lot of walking through some very old forest (on the one freakin’ day that it rained this week) with a guy who’s studied trees for over twenty years, so we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly, it’s an excellent fantasy movie with some big-name actors clearly having a lot of fun. It does, however, have a bunch of kissing, to which the girls give the classic kid response. Other than that, they thoroughly enjoyed it. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What am I Thankful for? Two Thanksgiving dinners every year! It’s just too bad that I can’t snag any leftovers from my mom’s, but the border can be twitchy about opened food for some reason. I don’t get it, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those old enough to know it, I hope your minds went to the same place that mine had: “Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” 😀 She was clearly baffled by her ability to control them by clapping, which turned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wooo, seven hundred! Anyway, the girls are a little pumped up about Halloween approaching, but I’m still clinging to summer and enjoying the nicer weather for as long as it lasts. That said, I guess I can’t really argue against[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of course, being Michigan, the temps took a nose-dive right before Halloween, so we were out walking in the cold and snow, but the girls kept warm simply by running up driveways. We had to keep telling them to slow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Halloween has just passed and the girls got a ridiculous amount of candy between actual trick-or-treating and pre-Halloween events. Not a surprise, of course, but they’re excited to have so many options at their fingertips. Naturally, we don’t let them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of houses just had buckets or bowls or whatever set out for kids to pick from, and that’s been working well for the past couple years, but it led to another fun exchange that showed the girls being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We took them to a pre-Halloween community trick-or-treat event and let them have at it, with fantastic results (and, yes, they were masked up, so you can barely even see them in there). They would run between stalls whenever there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite it being cold, snowy, and very windy, the girls were troopers to the end, and we also got to hang out with some friends while we were at it, so even better! As for the costumes, no one knows[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…