May has arrived! Do you or did you ever have any May Day traditions? When we were kids, May 1st (aka May Day) was always celebrated by making a cone vase out of a piece of construction paper, using ribbon or additional paper to fashion into a handle, fill them up with flowers from my…
With Halloween a mere week away, I think I’ve got almost all of the parts and pieces of Princess Nagger’s Halloween costume pulled together. I had to buy some red trim to add to the black zippered hoodie I picked up for her, so it would look official, and I’m waiting for the brown haired…
In just under 5 weeks Princess Nagger will be transitioning officially into Tweendom. Her 10th birthday is coming up, and we’ve been chatting about how to celebrate. Growing up, our birthdays have always been cause for celebration, especially since my birthday happens to be just a couple of weeks before Christmas – my parents were…
Is it already the next-to-the-last Tuesday of May? I really need to learn the art of not blinking, because with each blink, time passes by way too fast. This is also the second-to-the-last Tuesday of Princess Nagger’s school year – today she has the exciting field trip to… wait for it… the local township office….
You know how much Princess Nagger loves her Angry Birds. And how she has a couple of those giant sized ones she’s always playing with. She was having some fun with her big yellow bird: As she was tossing it all over the place, she was giving me a lesson on bird launching. She wanted…
If you’ve been reading me for a while, you may remember I’d gotten hooked on Where’s My Water since Angry Birds had gotten stale. Well, Angry Birds has been spiced up again with the newest version, Angry Birds: Space. It was hilarious to see that my hometown Seattle played up on the big release –…
After five solid days (and nights) of no internet, cable or phone, it’s been so nice to be connected, though I’m feeling a little discombobulated on how behind I am on everything. Crazy. So this week I’ve decided to hit the figurative ‘reset’ button and start fresh. That way I won’t cower under the enormity…
