Over the weekend we decided to look around in The Christmas Tree Shops. If you don’t have one of those near you, I feel bad for you.  It’s such a great, affordable place, and I always come out with more than I planned on getting. So I try not to go in often. : )  But this time we all went in – and being the season to sell autumn decorations and goods, I had to control myself with every turn.  However…..we did let the kids each choose a mini loaf ceramic pan, with the intention of letting them bake some mini loaves on Sunday.

Sunday got away in terms of baking.  So then… (READ MORE......)

Still trying to catch up on work here, but had the chance to finish getting these family photos processed too, which are (some) from Memorial Day weekend, actually. So I thought I’d share them on the blog real quick.

‘Make Your Own Ice Cream Sundae’ is a pretty exciting happening around here. Actually…the kids like to ‘make their own’ anything!! But sundaes seem especially fun. It’s something we do more than not, because with Shane having an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts, we all feel better about just having this treat at home. It’s a lot safer, and we can lick in peace. Not to say we never get ice cream out, but if we… (READ MORE......) | 3 Comments

Yesterday morning, with several tasks on the day’s agenda ahead of me, I decided I was going to make that soup one way or another! Michael had to be out on a morning job, so to manage schooling the little ones and make my soup, the kids took all of their school work and moved to the breakfast bar from the school room.  It was the perfect set up for us to still be able to work together, communicate and multi-task. So they got to work in their books, taking turns reading the concepts and directions, etc, and I got to chopping! : )

Of course, they were on the distracted side, wanting to watch what I was doing… (READ MORE......) | 4 Comments

Heffalump Rumpledoodles.  These things are quite possibly the tastiest little crumpets on the face of the earth!

We first heard of Rumpledoodles when the little one’s Auntie L gave them this charming Winnie the Pooh DVD movie titled Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, for their 3rd birthday.  In the movie, the Hundred Acre Wood gang decide to go out and hunt the much feared, and never-seen Heffalumps they have been hearing out in the woods.  Roo went off on his own hunt, and has a run-in with a baby Heffalump, when he is suddenly ‘tagged you’re it!’.  The adorable little Heffalump, named “Lumpy”, and Little Roo (READ MORE......) | 1 Comment