Time for Tea!

I don’t know about you, but I love tea, and tea time is seriously the best time! Growing up, having tea parties was one of my best memories! I would fill my little tea pot with all the peppermint and fennel leaves I could find and go hide out in my playhouse! Even now as an adult, I still love …

A Non-Pinterest inspired activity  

Summertime. Truly bittersweet to those of us who are parents.  On the one hand, absolute freedom from the slavery of schedules and locked down bedtimes and every minute of every day having to be somewhere.  On the other hand….absolute. Anarchy. Those sweets babes that you had to drag out of bed by their toes on school days now wake with …

Pinterest Holidays and a DIY Holy Week Box

We’ve all seen them, and most of us have even attempted some of the outrageous crafts, activities and surprises that correlate with every flipping holiday on Pinterest.  Every. Single. Holiday.  Now, don’t get me wrong, they can be wonderfully fun with awesome memories made, and I promise there is no judgement coming from the other side of the computer! But it …

Experimental Break From Our Arsenal

As you know, I have two boys…Two very boyish boys who love to battle and roar and shoot things and go fast and throw rocks and protect the damsel in distress (when she’s not engaging them in battle first).  But dang if sometimes I need a break from all that testosterone running, slamming and conducting epic battles around my home. …

Working Their….Mine…OUR fine motor skills

Mommy Confession: We’ve been watching A LOT of TV lately. I keep telling the boys I can see their brains melting and oozing out their ears, and since they are of course boys, they love it.  But we needed to get back into doing some activities that stretch that mush between their ears, so today while at Hobby Lobby (with only …

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Our Third Generation Playhouse

So, there is this playhouse up in the mountains, alongside a little hill, surrounded by huge Oak and Pine trees.  It’s our little playhouse…for the past 3 generations.  My Grandpa Don made it for my mom and my aunt when they were little girls in Jacksonville, CA with a lovely avocado green exterior and little pink stove that matched my …