Posted in Emma on Apr 9th, 2010 5 Comments »
After months and months of warning Emma that this day was coming, it finally arrived. We left the house yesterday morning with her looking like this: . . from the front . . . and from the back. Needless to say, it had gotten rather long and unruly. When we arrived home later in the [...]
Posted in Emma, London on Feb 4th, 2010 10 Comments »
is definitely not how we have been through our blog lately. We’ve been preoccupied with getting settled into our new home. When we feel a little more settled and less embarrassed about boxes and just ‘stuff’ laying around, we may give you a tour. When we first found out we would be moving to London, [...]
Posted in Birthday, Emma on Oct 29th, 2009 4 Comments »
. . or so I’ve been told by our resident eleven-year-old. Emma woke up in the wee hours of the morning with a stomach ache and an ear ache. Must have been growing pains because she’s been enjoying her day thus far. Really, a day off of school – who wouldn’t LOVE that?! In true [...]
Posted in Emma, Hannah on Sep 15th, 2009 6 Comments »
This week the girls have taken turns tying their quilts. Emma got frustrated with how long it was taking her so she had me work towards her from the other side. Hannah had me working the needle and she did the tying. Worked for me. Emma’s binding was finished yesterday and Hannah’s was wrapped up [...]
Posted in Becca, Cami, Emma, Hannah, Travel, site-seeing on Sep 12th, 2009 5 Comments »
By default, with the boys gone, we had a girls’ weekend. A lot of time was spent working on quilts, but we did venture out of the house on Saturday to see “Shorts” at the movie theater. I was outvoted as I had wanted to see “Ponyo” but we had a great time at the [...]
Posted in Becca, Emma, Hannah on Sep 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Nothing can be done in this house without the ‘monkey see, monkey do’ effect. Upon seeing Emma start on her quilt, Hannah decided she would like to try to sew one as well. Once Emma was off handling herself well with the sewing machine, I traced some squares for Hannah. She then cut them all [...]
Posted in Becca, Emma on Sep 4th, 2009 6 Comments »
I have found no matter how many parenting books I read or creative plans I come up with, it is really my children who help me become a better parent. This week it was Emma who pulled me out of my parenting rut – that really I didn’t realize I was in. I admit I [...]
Posted in Becca, Emma, Hannah on May 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
The girls had a Girl Scout outing last night to see the musical “Annie” at a local private high school. I had the opportunity to go with them and we had a great girls’ night out. The music was great – many of those kids had spectacular voices! The audience fell in love with Sandy, [...]
Posted in Caleb, Emma, Hannah, Scouts on Mar 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
Our town has been concentrating on being a “Clean Community” for the last few years. Every year they have an awards ceremony to recognize groups that have worked on cleaning the community or done something to help recycle. Emma and Hannah’s Girl Scout troops painted some of the storm drains in the town to remind [...]
Posted in Chris, Emma on Mar 22nd, 2009 3 Comments »
I don’t write very often on this blog – but here I am again, two times in just as many weeks. Don’t worry, Becca will be back shortly. Once again, I am writing because this is definitely a subject that Becca has no interest in. I started the week by filling in my bracket for [...]