Today, we spent lots of time together with swimming, shopping, and out to lunch. We played legos and marble tracks. We’re rounding our special day together with a candlelight dinner listening to Christmas music. This has been perfect.

Violet decided to make a Halloween picture for her class. She spelled the words an designed the picture all by herself. Take a look, but don’t get too “scard”!

When I was taking the kids one morning I stepped outside after Violet and Hayden were already outside. It was a col morning so there was frost on the grass and on my car. I could see footprints through the frost covered grass and a message on my car that was waiting for me. This…

Violet has a reading log she has to keep for her class.  She has to write down the date she read a book, the title of the book, how log she read for, and then a parent has to sign it to vouch that it is true. Below is a photo of her reading log:…

Hayden came home from school yesterday and started grabbing paper and tape out of the art supplies. He was keeping to himself so Libby and I continued to make dinner. He soon came running into the kitchen an grabbed a chair to bring over to the sink. What he had made was a boat. He…

This week was the last week of the the summer where the library at Violet’s school was open for the kids to check out books at her library. Throughout the summer kids write their names on tickets and there will e a drawing in the fall so kid can get prizes. Violet put her name…