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I quickly realized Monday that doing nothing all day wasn't going to work for 1 out of the 3 of us. Luckily I found Mo Willems (author of the Elephant and Piggie and the Pigeon books) is doing a video every day for the next 2 weeks. Monday
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The past week feels like it's dragged on for a year. I travelled solo to Florida for the weekend. Olivia had a couple healthy days, then ended up with a 4 day fever. We celebrated a birthday at our house. But maybe the most exciting thing... Emma has
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Olivia's preschool did a little kindness program at church this morning. The kids sang 2 kindness songs they learned at school (Olivia is the 3rd one on the back row. You can barely see her. 😂), then they went to the classroom for Sunday school. Olivia said they listened
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The girls always ask why there is a daddy daughter dance and not a mommy daughter dance. It turns out our gym does a family dance, and Braden happened to be out of town this weekend. So.... that made it a mommy daughter dance. The gym has a salon, so
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A couple weeks ago I signed up for a family class to learn about stars through a telescope. Emma has always been interested in telescopes and stars, so I thought she'd think it was really cool. We got to look at Venus and a bunch of different stars
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The girls really wanted to take daddy and show him their ice skating skills.... It was way more crowded than on a weekday, but the girls managed to weave their way in and out of all the people. On our way out we stopped to watch the high school boys
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I found out this year that between November and January if you spend $250 at the Mall of America you get 2 wristbands for unlimited rides. By the time I bought a couple Christmas presents, renewed my Crayola membership and we ate dinner there a couple times I easily spent
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Today was a warm one. So warm that the weather app on my phone had this picture. 🤷🏼♀️😂 Last year we missed out on tubing. I wasn't going to let that happen again, so the first nice day we got we were going! Emma had so much fun. She
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Today was the perfect weather for a family ice fishing event. It's also the first time we've seen the sun in weeks. 😎 One of the nearby cities does this event every year. They provide everything, so all you have to do it show up. We didn&
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Braden had to be in Miami this weekend, so it is just us girls. We started off the morning with rainbow waffles. Today I gave them the option of going ice skating or going to a waterpark. They both picked waterpark. This is the face you make when you'
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It might have been -6 degrees this morning, but that didn't stop Olivia's class from having a beach day at school. 😎