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Posted in Christmas, Holidays, James, Lauren on Dec 18th, 2008
As Kate mentioned before, our company (yes, we work together, how lame is that?!) lets us leave early after our holiday luncheon. It’s been our tradition to use that time to take the kids to see Santa ever since Jamie was born. This year we tried the Tysons II Santa as we’d heard good things [...]
Posted in Christmas, Crafts, Holidays, James, Lauren on Dec 17th, 2008
I’ve been doing this craft with Jamie since he was Sydney’s age. It’s a very simple craft, but good for a wide variety of ages. I’ve seen it done with glue, but my way is a little easier (although maybe not so safe). I bought small foam wreaths at Michaels – at $5 a pop [...]
Posted in Christmas, Crafts, Holidays, James, Lauren on Dec 17th, 2008
I came along this cute craft online and decided it would be a perfect holiday crafts to do with the kids. Well, what I really thought was: “oh crap, I need to do an activity with them today. What can I do?? Oh, look, this uses things I already have at home. Sweet!” Sadly, Jamie sat [...]
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Motherhood on Dec 17th, 2008
This was a quick, yet fun, activity! They’d been taunted by all those nicely wrapped gifts under the tree for so long that I thought it would be fun to let them each open just one. Needless to say, they were thrilled to open them. The bonus for us was that they each played quietly [...]
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, James, Motherhood, Our Family, School on Dec 17th, 2008
For our 11th Christmas activity, we all attended the musical at Jamie’s school (I know, not really an “activity” per say. It was a long week. I’m reaching here). Sitting in the audience watching the pre-K and K kids sing their hearts out reminded me of the same kinds of events in the multi-purpose room [...]
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Motherhood, Our Family, Sydney on Dec 17th, 2008
Monday afternoon we had our holiday party at work and we got to go home early afterwards. Leslie and I took the opportunity to take the kids to visit Santa when there were no crowds at the mall. I dressed Sydney in a cute red and white outfit from the Thompsons and we headed to [...]
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, James, Our Family on Dec 11th, 2008
I’ve been trying to talk to James lately about the spirit of Christmas and why we give to those in need at the holidays. I explained that while he is very blessed to part of a family that does not want for anything, there are many other families who don’t have as much as we do. I told him he’ll hopefully [...]
Last night some friends were nice enough to have Sydney and me over to dinner since Jim was away. The husband travels a lot and I think the Mom recognizes that it is sometimes nice to get a break when you are on single parent duty! We had a lovely time – I enjoyed chatting [...]
After an oh-so-gourmet meal of “breakfast for dinner” (cereal and peanut butter toast), we bundled the kids up and drove out to Bull Run to see the Festival of Lights. To be honest, it’s not my favorite light show. It’s kind of pricey ($20/car on weekends) and not very elaborate. There is a much better one [...]
Posted in Motherhood on Dec 9th, 2008
Just wanted to share this cute photo of the kids’ cousins Finely and Addison in Arizona. Aren’t they both adorable? I think Addi (the younger one) looks a bit like Sydney. Clearly the chubby cheeks run in the family! We miss them!
