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, [...]

Veteran’s Day Fun at the Smithsonians

Back on Veterans Day, we found ourselves with an unplanned free day.   Everybody had the day off except Silas’ preschool, but we let him play hookie.  It was a drizzly, gray day, but I decided it would be fun to hit the museums downtown, since we don’t get down there often enough.  I was especially [...]

Halloween Fun

What a boring title! I tried to be creative, but nothing came to me.  Anywho, this is my recap of our weekend of fun.  Be forewarned, this post is picture-laden.
The fun started on Thursday.  It was “Dress-up Day” at Mainly Music and so cute to see all the little kids dressed up in their costumes.   [...]

Good Ole Fashioned Fall Fun

Last Thursday was a parent teacher conference day and we lucked out with an early conference time.   Mike took the day off, so after hearing how brilliant our kindergartner is, we took of for a fun day at Cox Farms.
We’ve been going for several years and always have a blast.  It’s typically cooler and windier [...]

Mommy Daughter Date Day

Since Wesley has been in kindergarten for a month, I wanted to spend a little one-on-one time with her.  So Saturday, I took her out for a mommy daughter date.   She knew we were going to do something together, but didn’t know what.  I took her to the mall, and as we entered the parking [...]

Fun at the ice rink that doesn’t require skates

The other day, I had a free morning with Asher.  With nothing else planned, I decided to drive over to the Kettler Ice Rink to scope it out as a potential birthday party venue.   The Kettler Capital Iceplex, which, in case you didn’t know, is home to Washington Capitals.  They play their home games at [...]

Preschool Picnic Park Fun

This happened back in September but I realized I never mentioned it on the blog, so I’m throwing it out there for posterity – I’m also backdating it so.. forgive my randomness.
In September, Asher’s preschool had a picnic.   Asher is only in the Parents Day Out program, so I don’t know if we qualify for [...]

Lazy Sundae Social

Two Fridays ago, my local mom’s club hosted an ice cream social at a local park.   Lazy Sundae is a local ice cream shop — they make their own ice cream and have all kinds of fun and delicious flavors.

The brought the ice cream truck and were serving two flavors:  Dirt (chocolate, oreo & gummy [...]

Kid Drop Zone 2

Last week, Wesley was in “big kid” camp all week, which meant it was just me and the boys each day.  On Wednesday, I decided to take them back out to the Kid Drop Zone.
We went once before in June (I chronicled our experience here) and had a great time.  I wasn’t sure how crowded [...]

The Washingtonmental Monument

At the beginning of summer, as I considered the various activities I wanted to make sure we did this summer, one of them was to go up the Washington Monument.  It was something I remember doing as a kid, and a memory I wanted to make sure our kids acquired.  It used to be, you [...]