Six months ago I had a pretty big meltdown and basically told the kids if they didn’t want to follow the rules at here at home they could go live somewhere else. It wasn’t one of my better parenting moments. But it did force me to take a look at where that anger was coming […]
simple birthday celebrations
Marit’s 12th Birthday (Part Deux) – The MPB
Marit’s 12th birthday celebration was a two-day affair. On Friday (the day after her actual birthday) we played Birthday Hooky. Part II was the next day, on Saturday. That afternoon Kristofer had a swim meet at Fairfield University which is a little less than an hour from our house, and 30 minutes from my parents’ […]
Marit’s 12th Birthday (Part I) – Birthday Hooky
Marit’s 12th birthday was a little over a week ago. She and Ingrid have fall birthdays that are usually on a school day, so I always give them the option to take the day off of school and do something fun. Her birthday was on a Thursday, and she wanted to go to school that […]
A Perfect 18th Birthday
If you’ve been around here since the beginning, you know how I feel about birthday parties for kids. I’m not a fan of over-the-top parties. I wrote some pretty opinionated posts about kid parties back in the day. I still have the same opinion. I like simple birthday parties. Only now I don’t feel the […]
Happy Birthday, Number 5 and 6
It was Number 5 and Number 6’s birthday yesterday. Since it was also Number 3’s 8th grade graduation last night, I wanted to be able to celebrate on their actual day. But since we are also still in school, I had to get creative. So I picked them up early from school, along with Number […]