Lael has oodles of dress-up clothes. She could invite all the girls from the 2nd grade and each one could wear a different outfit complete with accessories. Most of the clothes were given to her by her cousins and some purchased by us. She doesn’t really get into dress-up that much, but when she does, she [...]
Every weekend for many many months, we talk about cleaning out the garage but we always seemed to find some excuse! It was either too cold, too hot, raining, too many activities already on schedule, or Todd was working or something! Finally, we said FOR REAL! we are going to do it! Our garage was [...]
On Saturday we went to Asbury for the Girl Scouts Thinking Day event. It was great. We had no idea what to expect since this is our first year. It was a lot like Christmas Around the World that the Cub Scouts did in December. Each Girl Scout troop chooses a country then sets up [...]
If you ask Lael what she is going to be when she grows up, her prompt response is ‘artist’. This girl loves to draw, paint, sketch, help me with crafts – anything in an art related field, and she is on it! Yes, it makes me happy to have her beside me creating her own [...]
I always say I am going to start these in like October, but it never works that way. It usually happens the first or second week of December, so I am actually ahead this year. Of course I still need about 75 more, but at least I have started! Lael also wanted to help, so [...]
