After spending a couple days with Princess teaching her some sewing skills, it was Dude’s turn. In August, he was voted the Troop Historian for his Boy Scout Troop. His “job” entails keeping the troop scrapbook up to date, creating photo slideshows for Courts of Honor and other events, and maintaining the Troop Blanket. Last [...]
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Boedie Battery Battle
Much to our surprise, Dude and Princess decided they wanted to participate in the elementary science fair this year - they even decided to do a project together as a team!
After much discussion, they decided to see which battery would light a lightbulb the longest. Wow did we all learn a lot while they did [...]
Got Lake?
More from WI. Have I ever mentioned how glad I am that I have 2 kids and that they actually LIKE each other?
Got Mud?
More from WI. No, you’re not supposed to drive until you’re 16 . . . but sometimes I’m willing to break the rules in the name of fun. No, Princess does not have freckles
Crackers and Cupcakes
On my typical Monday morning yesterday, I was volunteering in Princess’ 1st grade classroom. One of the things they were working on was identifying cracker (dry, boring) words and changing them to cupcake (fun, exciting) words. So the sentence “My mom is very pretty.” would end up being something like “My mom is extremely beautiful.”
Last night [...]
Teacher Gifts - Foam Flowers
We had a rainy Memorial Day weekend - and it’s STILL raining and supposed to be raining all week. We did squeeze in some pickup baseball and barbecues between the rain showers and had a blast!
In between the breaks in the rain, the kiddos and I got busy making gifts for their teachers. They each [...]
Lesson At The Museum
The kids and I went to The Museum of Nature and Science with some friends this past weekend. We had a BLAST! The IMAX movie on The Grand Canyon was awesome. But, what taught everyone the best lesson had to be the Egyptian Mummies.
We spent quite a while with the mummies . . . because [...]
A Good Time Was Had By All
We took off for the mountains again on Saturday. It was a beautiful day! The snow was awful and there were quite a few people, but we still had a great time Now if only Princess would stop asking me constantly as she follows me down the mountain “Mommy, why do you go so [...]
A Slippery Slope
I never had video games growing up. My video game exposure was limited to Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man at the bowling alley every Saturday morning! I remember getting our first and only video game console at home - an Intellivision! Oh the graphics on that . . . and the many keyed touch [...]
The Gameboy
Hubby and I have always said that Dude did not need video games, Gameboys, etc. I mean, he’s 6! He should be running around outside playing with the neighborhood kids . . . which he does every single weekend. It’s great! When he begged for a Webkin we said no . . . so he [...]