With the arrival of the Olympics, my boys are in an especially competitive mood, eagerly desiring to showcase their athletic prowess! But the heat this last week has been I.N.T.E.N.S.E! I think I may have chosen one of the hottest days of the year to run errands in the middle of the afternoon. ugh. So in […]
Attacking Crazy Birthday Week…
Duuun dun, duuun dun… {cue theme song from JAWS.} ** Selfishness was alive, well and on the hunt. I just chuckle as I think back to the silly angst I felt at wanting to make sure I would have my own birthday 8 years ago. He ended up making his grand entrance into the world 8 […]
Olympic Play
I love the creativity that the Olympics brings out in children. When we were little, my sisters and I would race out to our pool and try all kinds of creative dives and then critique and inspire each other to try new tricks! Or we would set up a track and field match in the […]
Our Daily Dose of Science!
Monsoon season has a way of luring us outdoors… The smell of the creosote, the dip in temperature and puddles, puddles everywhere! I think the boys couldn’t be more pleased with the ‘daily outdoors challenge’. They know that if I’m feeling iffy on going outside that they can just bring this up and hold me accountable! […]
Summer Salad Love
Life is crazy busy right now. Which is why I do crazy things like spontaneously invite our new neighbor and her son over for lunch. We are all pretty thrilled to have a neighbor who is under 10 on our street. The boys raced circles around him and took him on a grand tour […]
Hip, Hip Hooray! It’s Monsoon Day!
We first discovered this delightful little book a few years back and as a result, we love to party on the first monsoon storm or two of the season! I wrote about our love for it then… Each year now, the boys request that book. We reread it and marvel at the beauty of God’s creativity […]