As you may remember, this year, B decided she didn’t want any gifts for her birthday. Instead, she chose to raise money for charity:water, a fantastic organization that helps developing communities in need build fresh, clean water supplies to enable kids, especially girls, to get an education. She set a goal of $150, hoping that [...]
Oh. My. Goodness. Seriously. All I can say is Oh my goodness. Remember how yesterday I posted about B giving up all hope of receiving birthday gifts in favour of raising money for Charity:Water? My daughter is walking around the house in a daze with about the biggest smile anyone has ever seen, and it [...]
Saturday, we will be celebrating B’s birthday with a gaggle of children and beloved family members. We will be playing, we will be laughing, we will be decorating cupcakes, we will be eating burgers fresh off the grill (and plenty of potato chips, too, after Wednesday’s chip-buying orgy of awesomeness). We are not opening birthday [...]
Ten is more than two. Ten is more than five. Ten is… …ten candles on a cake. Ten is also, apparently, birthday cards that involve singing underwear. That’s right. It sings. Loudly. And vibrates. Did I mention it vibrates? The waistband shakes and rattles and makes the black spots in the googly eyes dance all [...]
We like watching birds. We watch Snowball, our pet society finch. We watch the birds in the woods when we go on walks. And we watch the many fine-feathered birds who visit our feeders daily. Lately, there’s been a lot of bird-related crafting going on, and it’s been super-fun. First, there was this: B made [...]
A little girl we know and love is turning three, and we have some surprises for her! Her party is today, and in a few minutes, she’ll be opening this: Last Christmas, her cousin received a forest hoop to hang on her wall (loosely based on Finn’s Forest by Melissa, blogging at Checkout Girl and on Etsy at Little [...]
Summer brings with it warm weather, sunny skies, gentle breezes, and trees so full of leaves that they become living, breathing shade canopies over our heads. Yesterday, we spent the morning playing and picnic-ing at one of the neighbourhood parks, and it felt like the most perfect of perfect summer days. It was hot, but [...]
You know you love your sister when you are willing to paint flower pots for her. In pink. Yes, it’s true, an 8 year old boy willingly spent an hour carefully applying several coats of bubblegum pink paint because he loves his sister that much. For B’s 7th birthday, she decided she wanted to have [...]
