PJ and Mia recently had a conversation where he tried to explain how to deal with stage fright in light of her upcoming dance recital. She looked at him like he had 3 heads. She couldn’t fathom why anyone would be scared once on stage. She can’t wait…the more people the better. Wednesday we had...
Hot Cross Buns meet Resurrection Rolls
Most of you have probably heard of Hot Cross Buns and know that it’s a Good Friday tradition. If not, you can read about it here (that’s what I had to do). Since I love baking with my kids tolerate baking with my kids because I absolutely stink at imaginary play, I thought it would...
Foto Friday: Cherry Blossom Family Day
I often take living so close to our nation’s Capital for granted. Last weekend we headed to the National Building Museum (again) for their free Cherry Blossom family day. There were oodles of crafts for kids, a dress up station, a variety of performances, and plenty of time to goof off 🙂
Days like today…
…(days that are 75 degrees and sunny) are great days for blowing bubbles. (and bubble inside of bubbles)
April Fools anyone?
My kids have been quite the pranksters lately. Their favorite trick is switching the remote controls for the lights in the bedrooms. Their bedroom and our bedroom have identical controls. When they switch them the victim goes to turn the light on in a room and the lights in the room around the corner start to...
"Blog aboard!"
So my husband has officially hopped on the blogging train. He won’t be contributing here any longer as he has been contributing to his own personal blog almost daily for about a week. I’ve added a convenient link in our navigation bar or you can just go to www.patrickcorkum.com. Leave him a little love as...
Garden Update
3 weeks after planting Generally everything is doing well (everything that’s come up, that is). We’re still waiting on rosemary, chives, and a couple peppers. It also turns out that the lettuce and broccoli seedlings doesn’t do well in all day sun. I think they’re a little too fragile. How’s does your garden grow?
Foto Friday
The sun didn’t really let them show it for the camera, but we were all super-excited to welcome Spring 2010 with complimentary italian ice from Rita’s. We were able to sneak some in before family arrived to celebrate my grandfather’s 84th birthday. This is the cake that the kids helped me make for it. We...