December 2023

Our plan, whenever going somewhere sandy, is to spend time at the beach and the pool, the beach and the pool, the beach and the pool. Our trip to St. Thomas worked beautifully for that plan. We also had the added bonus of having Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop with us too! We stayed at a place… Read more »

I turned a game that Carl got for the girls into a drinking game. They don’t know that adults often play drinking games. What they know is that when we play The Fairy Game, a cooperative endeavor to save a garden, if someone draws an Old Man Winter card then everyone takes a drink of… Read more »

Last Sunday the girls and I made gingerbread cookies, and I marveled over how little they need my help with it anymore. I still put the trays in the oven and take them out, but that is largely because Sarah and Amy are busy rolling, cutting, and decorating their dough. Amy mostly used cookie cutters… Read more »

Sarah’s favorite sentence construction of late involves words preceding “but” and then the word “but” with nothing after it. We aren’t exactly sure how this came about, but…. It may be from some episodes of Daniel Tiger and/or when Sarah’s bus driver tried to console her when there wasn’t a lot of rain when she… Read more »

Our whole week was packed with fun experiences. The girls didn’t have school on Monday so we got our Christmas tree. We let it settle for the day and decorated it Tuesday after they were home from school. My favorite part was when Sarah wanted to climb a short step ladder, but then actually leaned… Read more »