What we actually did for Christmas this year is: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, stayed home, watched videos and ate popcorn, played in the snow -- making snow angels and sliding on the tummy down small drifts -- DH and I took turns attempting to shovel out the driveway, had our Christmas brunch, opened presents. Day after Christmas, Nora and I ( Read more... )

Christmas 2009, of course, is currently Christmas Past. But, now that I've finally finished writing up about Thanksgiving, it's time for my annual "wrap-up" of holiday happenings at our home -- and notes to my future self.

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I'm aware that Thanksgiving is long past -- or far in the future, depending on your perspective -- but, since I had not yet chronicled our family's 2009 Thanksgiving, I wanted to do so for my own memories ( Read more... )

Last night was a pretty standard evening at our home these days -- days that I'll want to remember in later years ( Read more... )

You may recall (I do, because I wrote it down in this blog -- that process really helps with the memory) that last year, we tried to do an Advent activity a day for our family. I also recall that it got kind of stressful, with everything else going on. This year, I'm taking a much more laissez-faire approach, with the idea that we do some seasonal ( Read more... )

(on the way to preschool tonight)

"I love my Sheep. He's so soft and cute."
"Do you like things that are soft and cute?"
"Yeah, I like sheeps, and horses, and goats, and rhinoceroses. And giraffes, and cute dolphins."

In sort-of-the-spirit of Menu Plan Monday (hosted over at http://orgjunkie.com), here is what we ate in the past couple of weeks, as well as some tracking of seasonal stuff we did and other goals.

What We Ate

Monday(s): Frozen HomemadeWaffles, Spaghetti, quick meals from the freezer and the ( Read more... )

And, again with the belated updates from the last couple of months, this time on cute kid sayings ( Read more... )

Guess what kind of white stuff was on the ground when we got up this morning ( Read more... )

And so it begins in earnest: the questions with the answers that are overly complex for a three-year-old mind. Particularly when you are trying to take her to church.

As we arrive in the church parking lot, the CD in our car is playing "Grandfather Clock" on the kids' folk songs CD -- the clock which ran "until the old man died."

Nora: Mommy ( Read more... )