She likes to lay on this box and talk to herself, while basking in the full sun.

I love our little book club. That particular month we read Toliver’s Secret (Revolutionary War spy novel), ate homemade bread (just like the main character carried around), and our craft was to make an original thirteen colonies flag. They were Very Into It.

It’s the year of the stuffies…and I’m drowning. Every time I turn around, someone is gifting them another stuffed animal or plushie (please note: Zak Zak is still The Beloved Favorite for E). For YEARS, I managed to keep our stuffed animals down to about 3 per kid. Not gonna lie, I’m starting to hide…

My children refuse to wear shoes outside unless it dips below about 40 degrees.

Once she realized there would be a ballet nutcracker performance, she kept longingly asking to go see it. (cue Mama trying to figure out the cheapest method of getting tickets for her December birthday)

A received a boardgame from his godparents and my idea of hell is trying to learn and then teach boardgame instructions. My solution? Youtube. Don’t be impressed: they learned nothing and proceeded to make up their own rules. A week later, V sat down and taught them how to play for real.

His one birthday request this year (a huge change from his normal, elaborate requests) was to go have dinner at IHOP (introduced to him by his father when I was out of town a long time ago). The kids were absolutely delighted by the entire process of ordering overly sweet breakfast foods for dinner and…

N is of the belief that there cant never been too many photographs taken of her flipping on the climbing dome.

We lost almost all the month pieces from this wooden calendar when we moved and I FINALLY remembered to re-order them. Will this help my children care more about how calendars/dates/months work? Doubtful.

The kids find squash (eating) season a whole lot less exciting than squash (displaying) season.