Family
Today is Isabel’s birthday! We went to the newly-reopened Children’s Museum. Isabel and I outside before we head inside for some fun and discovery! Inside the Museum there are 5 areas for kids to explore. When we arrived there were so many people in the “woods” area that we didn’t stick around long. So we [...]
We didn’t decorate our sugar cookies yesterday but today we were able to get the cookies we baked over the weekend finished. I layered on the frosting while she worked with holiday jimmies, red sugar, cinnamon imperials, holiday confetti, green sugar and holiday nonpareils. Enjoy! She took her time placing all those candies on! She [...]
I remember doing this when I was little. I would wait for the holiday catalog’s to come in the mail. Anticipating the arrival of that magical book that held all my wishes. The day it would arrive, I would sit down and look through it. I would begin to visualize all the things that I [...]
Today after Gino and I taught Isabel how to play “Phase 10″ and playing other games around the table. We decided to make some holiday goodies. Gino and Isabel made marshmallow peppermint squares while I made sugar cookies. Yummy peppermint marshmallows! After letting them sit, Gino decided they needed something… So he melted some chocolate [...]
This afternoon we carved our pumpkins that we got over the weekend at the pumpkin patch. Enjoy! We set up my craft table and laid out an old tablecloth and then got to work. Gino cut the tops off for us and then we let Isabel clean out her pumpkin. She’s so excited!! Scooping out [...]
Every so often, not every day, Isabel sends us (Gino and I) “mail” that we find tucked somewhere for us to find. She also mails us “packages/surprises” that we find, usually under our pillows at night. These are small toys that she thinks we need. However, today my mail was in my drawer and Gino’s [...]
