My precious baby girl turned 1 a few days ago! Oh how the year sped by. It certainly was not an easy year, but she is such a delight. She appears to be our second introvert and is very shy. It has only been in recent weeks when she would willingly go to more people. […]
Crafting
Handmade Tradition, Passed On
I am slightly obsessed with making handmade gifts. There is something so fun about the creative process and then giving the results of your dreaming, planning and creating to someone… This last Christmas, my boys were excited to join in. My sister had sent me this link since she knew that Keegan had clay to work with. We were […]
Illustrating the Imagination.
We read. …a lot. So it would seem natural that my artist boy, especially, would want to undertake writing and illustrating his own. Since it is so laborious for him to write at this point, I took his story down from dictation. After deciphering how many pages we would need, I proceeded to cut and […]
Inspiration to Organize?
There has been re-arranging and such in our front room. As Xander gets older, we are merging the concept of playroom with, gasp, school room. Although this isn’t a new problem, Rich mentioned the need to move our big filing cabinet from it’s place in the garage – collecting dust, to the front room. Apparently, the […]
Reproductions
In the interest of saving time and frustration (five year old boys only like to draw and write for so long), we scanned Xander’s Christmas card and thank-you note drawing for the extended family. He adored seeing his ‘artwork’ displayed on each card and then both boys willingly drew illustrations of gifts they had received inside […]
Slime Management
One of the drawbacks of parenthood is getting slimed. I’d be willing to guess that anyone living with toddlers knows EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Some kids are worse than others in this department. Middle son would fall in the ‘worse’ end. He not only has used us for a tissue, but also my sofa’s, walls, […]