National Apricot Day
On all the calendar sites and many blogs, January 9th is “National Apricot Day”. I have searched, but not yet found a true source for this holiday. Apricots aren’t in season for a few more months, so it seems a bit strange… I’ve been feeling a bit out of touch at home because of all
New Year’s Eve
The cabin is our New Years’ Eve gathering spot. Phil, Barbara, Rob, Camille, Chloe and I gather to play outdoors and in as well as have a second Christmas. This year we are joined by the hissing cousins: our kity Gazoo and Suze’s cats (who live with Phil and Barbara) Q-Tip and Sadie. After our
Happy Christmas All!
Monday the girls and I flew back from DC. While the airport was fire marshall scary, checking in and going through security was easy-peasy. We boarded on time and were set to go, but the plane wasn’t. The navigation system wasn’t responding to being rebooted, so we had to get off the plane and wait
Thanksgiving
Even with Chloe’s emergency trip to get stitches, we had a mostly relaxing Thanksgiving. The four of us, plus my mom, dad and sister (and a cat and dog) spent the long weekend at the cabin. We went outside when the weather was nice and did things inside when the weather wasn’t as nice. For
Halloween!
The Halloween pumpkins and flamingos have had their own posts, as has the village Halloween Party. But what about Halloween? On Thursday, we had our homeschool group Halloween Party. Chloe was not in the mood for a party and just sat with some adult friends and ate some snack food. Camille participated in the parade
Halloween Flamingos?
Having three leftover boxes of flamingos in the garage from our PLamingo parade has left us feeling a bit crafty. One person had spray painted their flamingos orange and decorated them for Halloween. Camille thought that was a cool idea, so we copied it … where to hang the flamingos in order to paint them?
Pumpkin Time!
When we went out to the mountains a few weeks ago, we had so much fun at the apple orchard that we never managed to pick any pumpkins!! Rob and the girls picked some pumpkins up on their way home from the girls’ sleepover at a friends’ house. The girls helped Rob clean out the
The Candy Season has Begun
It’s been a whirlwind getting back from DC and getting back to “normal”. New tires on the car is a good thing, but the engine still smells terrible. Yesterday was our village Halloween party! Chloe, as in years past, decided at the last minute to NOT dress up. Her way to stand out is to
Best Birthday Gift?
Yeah, she’s a funny girl. Those, in fact, are Wasabi peas. Truly, she loved all her gifts, safari clothes, the building toy Camille picked out for her, but the best was saved for last. Her own Nintendo DS. Yes, they snuck the Wii into the house and now we are officially a modern family. Here’s
Happy Birthday Chloe!
Chloe is six today! Camille is planning to bake a cake for her sister later today. Chloe is still undecided about what she wants for her special dinner…I suspect it is food from one of her two favorite restaurants — Panahar or Harmony.
Memorial Day Parade
Today was our big Pine Lake Memorial Day Parade/Cookout/Opening of the Lake/Ice Cream Social! It was the first that we’ve ever been to, and it was exactly as I imagined. Everyone came together for a great day, but we still managed to do it in Pine Lake style, with everyone choosing their own parade route.
Happy Mothers’ Day!
I was five days late for Cinco de Mayo, so one day late for Mothers’ Day isn’t so bad, right? My mom comes to stay with us all the time, so I wanted my mothers’ day gift to her (and my mothers’ day gift to myself – I realize it is something for MY house)
Diez de Mayo
I guess we are a few days late for the big “Cinco de Mayo” celebration. We remembered the holiday while we were on the train home…the chips and salsa just didn’t cut it. Today Camille worked on researching food, crafts and more to help us, then we headed to Kat’s Happy Place, along with Lowe’s
So Nice to Be Home
I got home Friday evening with no incident. Saturday morning, I woke up very early, which was good, since I had an Easter Egg Hunt to organize. I met the volunteers down at the beach at sunrise and we hid tons of eggs on the beach and on the grass. Lots of families came out
Einy Meany Miney Mo
Easter is early this year. Very early. How early you ask? Just ask Gauss. Really! I admit I have not read the whole Wikipedia article Date of Easter but the graph was enough for me. Easter is abnormally early this year. But, from what I understand, Passover is next month, not during the same lunar
Valentine’s Day Sugar High
On Saturday, we had celebrated the holiday of red hearts and sugar. The girls and I gathered lots of art supplies and invited lots of friends over to spend an afternoon of fun. We had cookie decorating, pin the heart on Cupid, valentines exchange and lots of running around having fun.
Chinese New Year
All along, we were excited about having guests for dinner tonight, but we found a great website with Chinese New Year’s Crafts yesterday, and the girls decided they wanted to do them ALL. We headed to Hobby Lobby for pipe cleaners, tissue paper, felt and more, and ended up making lots and lots of crafts.
Happy Chrismtas All!
The girls last night after opening new jammies and one other gift…
Back Home
We’re home again! It was great to be in Blue Ridge with family, but it is also nice to home again. I’m slowly making my way through my to-do list of things that accumulate while we’re gone. Bills, photos, permission slips, homeschooling research, laundry and more. But we are also starting to decorate for Christmas!
GBK Gwyneth
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