Are you willing to be the Meanest Mom?

A friend forwarded me an article in MomLife Today (a magazine put out by Family Life) entitled “Three Cheers for the Meanest Mom!”
The article relates a story about a mom who sold her teenager’s car after she found alcohol in it.   The author, Barbara Rainey, encourages moms to make the tough decisions that may [...]

Swimming Pools: Cheap Fun with Kids!

We’re working hard to trim our budget, so we aren’t as footloose and fancy free as we used to be when it came to spending money on  fun kid activities.
We recently discovered Arlington county pools have “free swim” for kids on Saturdays.  Meaning, you arrive between 1 and 3pm, pay for the adult(s) and the [...]

Shapes

This week’s You Capture theme is “Shapes“.  Here’s a few examples from around the house this week:

We made pretzels yesterday, following Sweet Pea’s recipe.

Moments ago, I wondered what could be keeping Asher so suspiciously quiet.  Apparently, he likes rectangles.  And greenbacks.

Lastly, a look at some circles that can always be found in our house.   Often [...]

SWAK

This week’s “You Capture” theme is Kisses.  I wasn’t on the ball and didn’t get any good kissing pictures, so I decided to break protocol and look back over the years and see what kissing pictures I have taken in the past.   You won’t be impressed with my artistic eye, but hopefully the cuteness of [...]

A Snowddendum

Well, around 5pm, the snow stopped.  I think they called for it to last til late evening (maybe?).
Anywho. shortly after my post about how we were all hunky dory, the power went out.   Dang it.   We were out of power for about 2 hours and it just came back on.   Thank you, Jesus!  We would [...]

Snowmageddon 2010

Well the blizzard has arrived, delivered on it’s promise, and hasn’t left yet.  The media is freaking out about it, but we are enjoying the novelty, for now.  (Ask me how I feel to be snowed in on Monday).

Yesterday, school was canceled pre-emptively, so Wesley was invited to a friend’s house for a playdate.  She [...]

The Blizzard is coming… the Blizzard is coming!

So, apparently a blizzard is heading our way.  Perhaps even The Mother of All Blizzards.
My local jurisdiction sent out an emergency alert warning, “Another severe winter storm, with near blizzard conditions, is forecast to hit our area Fri., Feb. 5 through Sat., Feb. 6. Be prepared to shelter in place for 3 to 5 days. [...]

Of Sledding and Snow Shakes

Sunday was a beautiful morning, with perfect conditions for sledding. Sunny, not too windy, and not so much snow that we couldn’t drive our minivan to the nearest bestest hill in our neighborhood. It took some effort to get all of the children into their snow gear and out the door, but finally, [...]

Here we snow again

Another snowfall has hit our area, so we are hunkered down in front of the fire.

Some of us are playing “Trouble”…

some of us are causing it …

and some of us are blogging about it :)

We’ve been working on some Valentine’s decorations, so I thought I would try and be arty and capture them and the [...]

More snowy fun

We are dug out and getting around, but it is still pretty snowy around here.  On day two of the big storm (Sunday), there was nary a plow in sight.  Lucky for us, one of our neighbors motored by in his bobcat and helped to dig us out.

He made a huge snow pile right by [...]