We seem to have all caught whatever has been going around for the last couple weeks. Lilu is especially sick – she can barely breathe and Josh was up with her half the night. No fevers though, and the doctors found nothing at our visit only a couple days ago. Lilu slept about four hours […]
We’re always rushing in the mornings, so when I was cruising Pinterest with Sofía during today’s snow day and we saw an idea for little baked individualized pancakes, we decided to go ahead and do it. I mixed up some gluten-free pancake batter with extra butter to make it more liquidy, and filled greased muffin […]
It’s been a year already? Hard to believe. Alea Lore, born 1/20/2012: Is now a whole year old. My vibrant, funny little girl always has a big smile on her face. She laughs and chortles and points and claps and has two words, “Dat?” and “Dis?” Unless you count “Nanananana” for Mama, when she’s sad. […]
I never thought we’d have more than one tree at Christmas. When I was growing up, it was just the one, that was it, it was THE. Christmas tree. Now that I have kids of my own, we dutifully go and pick out a real live tree, decorate it, and put it in the place […]
By tonight most of the gorgeous Fall leaves will be torn off the trees (thanks a lot, Sandy), so Sofía and I went around this past weekend collecting them to make “stained glass.” We sandwiched them between sheets of waxed paper and ironed them on medium-high (put a towel underneath to protect your ironing board). […]
Did you know you can make great bath paints out of just shaving foam and food coloring? True!
A bored little Sofía and I had an hour or two to kill, and I suggested we make a craft. So we started browsing through all the kid friendly craft ideas I had pinned on Pinterest, and she saw something that caught her eye. It’s not a liquid. It’s not a solid. It’s FLUBBER. Luckily […]
Sofía’s started taking swim lessons at our local aquatic center. She loves them! But sharing a gym bag with her when she goes twice a week and I try to go at least 4x a week – which entailed a complete emptying and refilling of the bag’s contents each time – was becoming quite a […]
It’s hard to write while you’re holding an infant who screams at you with the rage of a thousand suns, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words anyway. Today was our MOMs Club Easter Party, and I made carrot cupcakes with maple cream-cheese frosting. I loooove carrot cake. The toppers are made […]
While Grandma and Grandpa were here, Sofía and I took advantage of the free babysitting to give her room a little bit of a facelift. Her room was a pale pink already; but she’s a fun girl and deserves a fun, punchy color. Besides, she’d been begging to paint her room – I don’t know […]