The other night at dinner, Mike and I were talking about finances and how much we were putting away into the kids’ 529 accounts. Violet asked us what a 529 account is, and we explained that we are saving money for when she and Hayden are old enough to go to college. We talked about…
Hayden’s rash is all healed now. It only took a week. We’re not exactly sure what caused it, but we’re glad that it’s gone. We think it may have been some different hot dogs that we had, but we are hesitant about trying them again any time soon. Luckily , the rash didn’t seem to…
With two kids that are pretty big for thier age, I’m wondering to myself how much longer we can manage to have them fit into the same bath. It seems as though we need four towels for every bath night: three for the floor and one for the kids. They love baths, which is wonderful,…
Skinless red skinned potatoes, meatloaf, broccoli and carrots and peaches. It was a hit with 50% of the kids. The other 50% was trying to get rid of it all via “vacuum”…
Today was such a great day for going sledding – sun shining, with crisp snow. It was a little chilly, but we decided that we would go in the morning since the wind was going to pick up in the afternoon. So, in 19F we bundled up the kids and headed to a school not…
We were having some apples the other day, and Violet asked if we could grow some trees from the apple seeds. Since Violet LOVES science experiments, we decided to go ahead and attempt to grow some trees! We started out by putting the seeds in a ziploc bag with some wet paper towel. A few…
