Every year we get our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. I am not a go-to-a-Christmas-tree-farm-and-cut-down-your-own-tree kind of girl. Back when the kids were younger I just couldn’t imagine doing something like that with all the kids, and now we have an established tradition. There is a grocery store here in Connecticut called Stew Leonard’s. […]
Parenting
A Reminder Of What’s Really Important During The Holidays
We are a couple days away from Thanksgiving, and I just want to give you all a reminder. The holidays, and Thanksgiving in particular, are meant to be a time for you to really think about what really matters to you. And who really matters to you. To spend time with those people if you […]
Mommy, I Stood Up For Myself.
The pool the kids practice at is a community pool. It’s a 50 meter pool with a diving well, so it’s pretty big. When we are there for swim practice, half of the pool is used by the swim team, and the other half of the pool is divided into a few lap lanes and […]
Nothing To Complain About
I have never been a fan of winter, really. And it’s not really even winter yet. It’s still technically fall for another month. But today we had our first snowstorm here in Connecticut. The kids had an early dismissal because the snow was supposed to start around the time the kids were getting out of […]
Five Minutes A Day Goes A Really Long Way
This morning I had a little extra time, so I made some cinnamon rolls for the kids for breakfast. I use a can of crescent rolls to make them. It’s really pretty simple. Here’s the recipe. This was around 6:50 in the morning. Number 5 is my early riser. She’s usually awake before 6:30, and […]
They Don’t Have To Do It All
4th grade is that right of passage year in our school district when the kids can finally join band. We don’t have orchestra in our district, so a band instrument is the only option as far as in-school opportunities go. When I was a kid, I started playing when I was around nine years old. […]
