A Few of Our Favorite Toys

As the holidays approach far more rapidly than I want to admit, toy catalogs are filling the mailbox and talk is turning to wishlists for Santa and the grandparents.  For those of you who’ve also begun pondering holiday gifts for kids, I thought I’d share some of our favorite (as in actually played with often) [...]

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Now We Are Six: A Witchy Celebration

M turned 6 last week and we celebrated last weekend with several of her friends. We were torn between a cooking themed party and a witch themed party so we combined the two.  We started the afternoon with the girls gathered around the table helping to make pizza dough.

While the dough rose, we rolled out [...]

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A Whirlwind of Fall Fun, Part 2

M started riding lessons a few weeks ago.  If only the crisp, fall air was still around in the afternoons.  Unfortunately, it’s still sticky, sweaty hot but soon it will be cool and the leaves will have turned and the weather will be perfect to be out on a horse.

One of our favorite fall events [...]

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A Whirlwind of Fall Fun, Part 1

Fall is my favorite time of year.  My birthday and my mom’s birthday fall in September.  M and my dad have the same October birthday.  On top of all those celebrations, we try to soak up as much of the crisp air and fall-themed activities (corn maizes, apple picking, harvest celebrations, fairs, etc as we [...]

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Trip to the Zoo

Last week, the girls and I visited my parents.  They live close to the N.C. Zoo so as we usually do, we spent a day there.

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Making Doughnuts

Last week, M and I made doughnuts together.  We used Giada De Laurentiis’s recipe for Italian Doughnuts.  I liked the simplicity of it since it calls for pizza dough which I make often and don’t have to leave rising for very long. We’d seen Giada make these on her show, Everyday Italian, and they looked [...]

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Playing and Learning This Week

On Monday, we drove back from my in-laws house after a long holiday weekend with late bedtimes and lots of playing outside.  We arrived home tired and cranky.  I searched our food stores and came up with the fixings for bean and cheese quesadillas or cheesadillas as C calls them (not that she eats them).  [...]

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A Dress Up Progression

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Bits From Our Week

I meant to write a post about the lovely Father’s Day we had, and at several points during the week, I’ve intended to blog about things we’ve been doing but I’ve been to busy, well, doing. Brent and I each spent a day this week wiped out from a stomach bug so that’s added to [...]

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The Beach, Part 3: Sunrise

One of the highlights of last year’s trip to the beach was taking M to see the sunrise over the ocean.  In the week’s before this year’s trip she secured my promise several times that we would do the same thing this year – complete with a blanket to sit on, sugary cereal to munch, [...]

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