My girls love our local Maker Space. This week the little girls worked on fabric squares and Adrianna and her friend, Thomas, made keychains with the laser cutter. Bree is hoping to make a plushie at the next homeschool open hours. She’s already started the pattern (a Minecraft creeper!) It will be her first experience […]
Category: Adrianna
Settlers of Catan
Adrianna has won 2 of the last 3 games of Settlers of Catan. But this is a win for me, too, because now she wants to play it more. #myFavoriteGame #citiesAndKnights
Spring Violin Recital
Adrianna had her Spring 2018 Violin Recital this weekend. She played a fiddle piece called “Cluck Old Hen.” I love that it included plucking and double-stops (playing two notes at once.)
May Day
Some friends of ours put on a May Day celebration this week. They taught all of the kids some May Day dances and how to make flower crowns. And everyone did the traditional May Pole dance with the ribbons, though with so many little kids participating it looked more tangled than weaved at the end! […]
Back in Town
My sisters and I traveled back to our hometown for the funeral of our childhood friend, Jacob Adamo. As funerals often are, it was a bittersweet time. Nice to see so many people we hadn’t seen in years (or decades), nice to spend time with my sisters, but also so very hard and sad to […]
Adrianna’s Birthday Party
15 middle schoolers will be descending upon our house for Adrianna’s 13th birthday party any minute now. The chaos and noise level is about to increase! Let the [board] games begin! We survived! Really though, it was nice getting to know some of her friends that we hadn’t met before. It was a great group […]
3D Pen
Our homeschooling this week has been very relaxed so far. We are doing more interest-led learning this week since we’ve already met our required days/hours for the year. (Just don’t tell the girls we’ve met our required days/hours because I *do* still plan on doing some more actual bookwork, even if at a relaxed pace, […]
Blokus
We have *finally* gotten to the stage where we can all play a board game together that is NOT Candyland or Chutes and Ladders. (Thank goodness!) #milestone #Blokus
Adrianna is 13!
Surely I am not old enough to have a teenager?! Happy 13th birthday to our sweet daughter. May you always be as sweet and thoughtful and creative as you are today. I love your inventiveness and entrepreneurial spirit and the love that you show your family every day.
Why I Scrapbook
This is one of the biggest reasons why I scrapbook: While it is a creative outlet for me and I enjoy it, I am so glad that the girls like looking at the pages I’ve created. Preserving memories is so important.