We had a ton of snow over Christmas and as luck would have it the kids got a new sled/saucer on Christmas morning. It was freezing cold outside the day after Christmas so the older girls weren’t interested in playing with the saucer but Sam and Texas were game so we bundled them up and… Continue reading Snow Day
Category: The Daily Grind
Posts about daily life
Christmas 2008
I was in Hawaii the first week of December on business. Being in Hawaii was nice but missing the first week of December seemed to just put everything else in the month behind schedule. We didn’t get a chance to do our annual trip downtown to see the lights. We were behind in our Christmas… Continue reading Christmas 2008
Reflections 2008
This post was written by Anne Every year, the PTA of my school and many other schools have Reflections. Reflections give kids a chance to show off their talents.There are 6 categories that kids can sign up in, which are: musical composition, visual arts, 3-D art, photography, choreography, and acting. There is a theme that… Continue reading Reflections 2008
Why are my suggestions so single minded?
I use Google as my default search engine in Firefox. When you start typing in the search box, you get a list of suggestions that you can click on to complete your search. Tonight I happened to type the phrase “why are my” and the following list of suggestions came back: why are my breasts… Continue reading Why are my suggestions so single minded?
Halloween 2008
In the weeks leading up to Halloween I kept hinting at Emily that she was too old to go trick-or-treating and she kept saying “this will be my last year Dad”. I didn’t forbid her from going and she managed to finagle an angel costume from her Aunt Janey so she joined ranks of trick-or-treaters… Continue reading Halloween 2008
Halloween Jack-o-Lanterns
This is how the pumpkins began their journey to Jack-o-Lantern bliss. This past Monday night instead of a regular Family Home Evening we carved five of our pumpkins that we grew in our garden. We let Emily and Anne have their own way with their pumpkins, and mom and dad helped the other three kids… Continue reading Halloween Jack-o-Lanterns
I’m too old
Now that I am in my late thirties I don’t like to celebrate my birthday quite as much as I used to. This year I had a great low-key birthday. I went out to sushi, had cake and ice cream with the family, and I bought myself a new serger how can it get any… Continue reading I’m too old
Spiked Hair for Buddy
When Grandma and Grandpa came over at the beginning of the month, they left us with some NuSkin products. Among the products was some hair gel. Sam was the happy recipient of the hair gel and wanted immediately to get spiky hair. I think grandpa tried to spike his hair, but it didn’t work too… Continue reading Spiked Hair for Buddy
Alphabet Crown
Yesterday Luppin made a big achievement in her preschool life, she got her Alphabet Crown. After a year and a half of preschool Luppin finally has mastered the task of identifying all the letters in the alphabet and repeating the sounds they make. BYUFan and I told her(as we did for all of her siblings… Continue reading Alphabet Crown
Fall Harvest
BYUFan has been on my case ever since the end of last week when I picked half a bucket full of green beans to get them canned. I don’t have a pressure canner and on Saturday I went to a couple of stores to try and find one, but no luck. Finally on Tuesday this… Continue reading Fall Harvest