I’m sure it doesn’t surprise any of you that we’ve had some mud recently. Not after our flooding last week. Actually my kids have managed to find mud for a while, there’s a little bit after the sprinklers are done. They started off making mud homes for the … [Read more...]
Childhood to do list: Eat ice cream for dinner
When I was a kid my Mom had a shirt from Marie Calendar’s, it said: Life is uncertain, eat dessert first. We never did that, that I remember. But my kids did just the other day. They all had hearty grins, and after brushing their teeth, went to bed quite happily. Okay, … [Read more...]
Building forts
My children have become quite the expert at building forts. While I was laying downstairs yesterday and feeling icky and sorry for myself and burning through the book I decided to read, they were busy. They eventually had every blanket, pillow, and dollie up in that fort. … [Read more...]
Childhood to do list: WATER FIGHT!
Every child must have at least one water fight before they grow up. The problem is I overthink it. I start to think of all the things that could make the fight EPIC! You know, it's talked about for weeks. But sometimes that's not what your kids want or need. They just want … [Read more...]
Childhood to do list: Build a fort
I remember as a kid every fall my Dad would trim back the trees drastically and I’d build a fort out of all those branches. It was quite a feat. So, in my mind this should be on every kid's childhood to do list. We were trimming the trees in our front yard the other day … [Read more...]