My goal for one of the next couple of Christmas’ is to have the girls help wrap their own presents without realizing it, but I’ll need a gift that’s not obviously there. Then I’ll laugh when I give it to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was I ever that excited to see snow? Maybe when I was their age, but I’m not sure I was even then. I’ve never been a fan of cold (which some would say is weird for a Canadian, but I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, it boggles the mind. I can walk through the door to their “clean” room and find from five to ten things on the floor without leaving the doorway. And, for some reason, while they are told to clear out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, how do you like that? The big 500! A little late with it, but had big plans and not so much time. That aside, here’s the flashback tour of my girls growing up over the past 500 strips (well,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The girls were very excited about Thanksgiving – so was I, if only because it meant I got a four-day weekend. ;P Any holiday is exciting to a kid, even if it’s mostly focused on food, but they were really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was 70F/20C and sunny, so absolutely perfect weather – for putting up decorations, doing yardwork, staying home, going to work… pretty much anything. I’d be good with keeping it year-round but, unfortunately, while even Mother Nature seemed to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even gloved, her fingers were cold, but our little drama queen likes to make it sound waaaay worse than it is. Even with the cold, it was an enjoyable trip around the zoo, plus we got to learn a few[…]↓ 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…
They both love drawing, and they’re pretty decent at it, considering their age and lack of any real teaching for it, and they’re certainly creative with their story-telling (mostly visual, in Arwyn’s case). For their Peter Pan story, they’ve got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little late in posting this week because the power outage was last night and interrupted my schedule. That said, it also gave some good material, so I figured I might as well use it right away! 😀 I plugged[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…