There's a series of these videos out in the internets... Dance Like Nobody's Watching. I find some of them rather cute and bold and charming, but this one in particular came to me through the usual social media portals, and I really love this one. I think it's because this girl's spirit and dance … [Read more...]
The Littlest Hotdog.
One rather nice thing about family-break times, like the one we had just last week, is how I get the chance to really see my children anew. It doesn't matter if we stay home, though I do tend to view them differently when they're back-dropped by a different scene, or within different walls. I too, … [Read more...]
Halloween Foods: Plan B thanks to Sandy
So, we're getting ready for Halloween and it looks like this monster of a storm is coming our way. My kids started talking about what to do should we get a complete rain out on the night of Halloween. They decided (yes, they did) to not go out but instead could we have some fun at home … [Read more...]
Summer, You Ain’t So Bad
I know I was bemoaning summer in my last post, but before I go on a school supply-buying bender, I thought it worthwhile to think back on the things that made this summer a great one. Really, it's been pretty swell.Raybans and a floppy white hat.Alize. On the rocks.Guacamole.Fresh peaches and … [Read more...]
Easy summer days & new fun game apps for the brain!
Summer is here and how many of us continue to keep up some learning with our kids? It's easy really. My kids are at a couple weeks of day camps and the older is going for one week at an overnight camp this summer. We are also planning a couple of short family trips and just some weeks of downtimes … [Read more...]
Birthday parties – yes or no?
Over the past fourteen years I have hosted so many birthday parties that I have lost count. Each year it became more and more of chore and expensive. Having them at the home was an option on some occassions but when you have as many children as I do it gets harder to focus on the … [Read more...]
The Big Birthday Love-Fest
Wow, time really flies while you're busy having a birthday sometimes... I turned forty last Thursday, and it's been one big, fat love-fest ever since.Cards. Calls. Dining out. Happy Birthday serenade from a school yard full of three and four year olds... en … [Read more...]
Who’s That Kid…
So, the children bullied me into buying them some Oreos the other day. I have nothing against Oreo cookies (I've been known to partake in a dozen at a time a few now and again) but we already had two other types of biscuits in the cupboard, plus ice cream in the freezer, we had gift-with-purchase … [Read more...]
Three-thirty P.M.
I don't have my kids enrolled in any after-school programmes. My seven-year-old was taking karate (and kicking butt at it) last year, but by the summer, he "wanted a break" from his four-to-five-hours-per-week classes, and just wanted to do summer camp stuff. We quickly realised in September how … [Read more...]
Coping with the January Blahs
I've been suffering from a major case of the January doldrums. It's cold, mornings are dark, and I've been finding it hard to motivate myself for even the most menial of tasks. But, in the past few days, I've perked up and found ways to cope on these dullest of winter days. Firstly, … [Read more...]