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Posted in Bento, Food, James, Lauren, Motherhood, Our Family, Pregnancy on Apr 19th, 2009
So yeah. It’s been a while since I posted to this blog. Life seems to get in the way of my better laid plans! We’ve had one heck of a few months — I was sick for an entire week (I’ve never been sicker in my life), John was hospitalized twice since January (once for [...]
Posted in Crafts, James, Lauren, Motherhood, Our Family, Sydney on Feb 2nd, 2009
Les has not been feeling great with her pregnancy and I thought I would give her a little time to rest and relax a bit. So I took Jamie and Lauren for the weekend (or for a “two-night sleepover” as Jamie called it). We had a lot of fun, but I think she will have [...]
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 [...]
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 Christmas, Desserts, Food, Holidays, James, Lauren on Dec 9th, 2008
Last night we made reindeer cookies together. I keep a folder of Christmas ideas, recipes, traditions, etc. and from time to time I go through it for new ideas. I’d printed this recipe off of some magazine website years ago and we finally got around to making them. It was super easy — just some sugar cookie [...]
Posted in Christmas, Crafts, Holidays, James, Lauren on Dec 8th, 2008
Of the activities we have done to date, the crafts have been the biggest hit. They just love those crafts! I think that is why the book reading activity did not go well. They were so disappointed that the activity was not a craft that they didn’t want to participate at all. So last night [...]
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, James, Lauren, Motherhood, Our Family on Dec 8th, 2008
As a child, my Mom couldn’t stand the thought of waiting all through December for Christmas to arrive. It was just too much excitment for a 5 year old to handle! So when she had us, she started the European tradition of St. Nicholas Day. On the 6th of December, we’d leave our shoes (the biggest [...]
Posted in Christmas, Holidays, James, Lauren, Our Family on Dec 8th, 2008
Saturday I took both kids to do a little Christmas shopping. First, James and I headed over to the farm across from our house to do their children’s shopping program. The farm has a small general store with all sorts of cute things. The kids are escorted around the shop by volunteers where they pick out presents [...]
