Time for a Change Part 3
One more home update to share! We went from this… to this… It’s bright, it’s light, it’s green, and I love it! Than painted all the trim, I was in charge of the roller (and only spilled a little paint…) and the kids occupied themselves for a day and a half remarkably well. I can’t [...]
On My Front Door
Thanks to tons of hot glue, several hours watching DVDs from the library, and the instructions HERE and HERE, I ended up with this… A new take on sheet music, that’s for sure.
Time for a Change
Word of warning: be careful when you leave Than home alone…! I was gone for a morning and came back to find that Than had begun the renovation of our basement stairs, a project we’ve been hoping to do for a while. He had the carpet ripped out and now we have no carpet in [...]
Gingerbread Again…
We had a big snow a few days before Christmas, so it was the perfect day to stay indoors (well, except for Daddy who shoveled 4 driveways and sidewalks!) with Aunt Lynne. We spent our morning decorating gingerbread houses, since the kids didn’t get to do it earlier in the season. (Thanks, our kind mail [...]
Little Girl Project
Sometimes I just shake my head and smile, knowing I have a little girl. There are lots of fun things about that!! (Important to remember, because there are plenty of challenging things too…) Anyway, this is a fun project that I got to do just because I have a little girl and I knew she [...]
Ewww…Fun!
Slime–not a new craft in the internet universe, but one I’d never done myself before. It was very easy, very quick, not as messy as it sounds, and the kids had fun both making and playing. Do it now, before glue goes back to full price after back-to-school sales! Much better instructions here…
Sunshine Before Storm
Now that you’ve read about our automobile adventures, let me show you how God prepared our morning so that I could handle the afternoon that was in store! After spending lots of time outside dividing my overgrown iris, Katya and I headed indoors with armfuls of flowers to put in vases. It was also project [...]
A New Box of Crayons
What is so appealing about a new box of crayons? And how do you expect me to resist them when Back-to-School sales mean I can get 24 Crayolas for 40 cents?!! I made a batch of these cute crayon-holder notebooks (gotta look at these pictures, since I didn’t take any of mine) to put into [...]
A Few Projects
We snuck in a few more fun projects before school started. Why does it make me feel good to do “projects” with my kids? I guess it feels useful but fun, educational but creative, gives me some direction instead of the open-ended play that I struggle with. Anyway, here is our marble circus… Katya didn’t [...]
A Little More Summer Fun
Wow, our summer has flown! School starts in just over a week, but we’ll try to squeeze in a few more fun things before that happens. Here are a few we did recently… …turned a cancelled swimming pool day into a fun backyard water day. I even gave up naptime on the condition that the [...]
