we had a low key day today. lazy breakfast/ipod time. we visited aunt eleanor again. then had lunch with gramps and carolyn at miss batavia diner. then a long afternoon nap for the annababy, while i dozed with ike, read some, updated isaac’s ipod, surfed the www and ate a box of sprees. then, my […]
batavia ny. tuesday.
i’m trying to cram this post in quickly before i head to bed. after a restless night of being eaten alive by mosquitos, i awakened, fed the lidkids breakfast and we headed off to austin park, once home to the dirtiest, diseasiest wading pool in america. or maybe batavia. and i can proudly say, i […]
derek’s last day in town
we put derek on a plane back to winston-salem today. well, greensboro. by way of washington, dc. which is where he is right now, because his flight keeps getting delayed. poor fellow. we had a pretty low key morning, while derek spent his last hours with the lid kids before his departure. we began by […]
lazy sunday in the 14020
the plan is, derek helped us drive up on saturday. (and by “helped”, i mean “did most of the driving”). today (monday), he’s flying back to lovable winston. we will remain behind, hang out, etcetera, until a future date and time, in which i will enlist the assistance of jake paine (my brother) for the […]
on the road again
once again, we packed up all of the lidkid essentials and made our way up I-77, I-79 and I-90 to batavia, ny 14020. the weather was great, the ride was uneventful and the kids traveled very nicely…. despite pretending she was sleepy for the entire ride, anna really only slept about 25 minutes ALL DAY […]
july 4th garb
since we live fairly close to the coolest fireworks show in town, we have had a party with a few of our closest friends each of the last few years. this year was no exception. well, it was an exception, because “a few” turned into “50” and the outdoor cookout was rained out and we […]
pay it forward
at the beginning of this year, i participated in a facebook “pay-it-forward” challenge. someone had posted that they would send a handmade gift to the first five people to comment on their status, and in return, each of those five people was to post a similar status, stating they would made a handmade gift for […]
gingham quilt
got the bright idea from crazy mom quilts blog to make a gingham quilt. i had it done from start to finish in like 12 days. and that includes some down time when i moved my craft room from a cramps corner of the bedroom to the basement (dungeon). and some down time while i […]
colored rice. the making and the playing.
one item on our bucket list was coloring rice. not because isaac wanted to, but because i had seen it in internetland and decided i wanted to try it. once we got started though, isaac was all in and just as happy as if he had come up with the idea himself… shaking the bags […]
indoor tree house.
we have been trying to settle on what to do with the dormer window in isaac’s room ever since we knew we were having him. for the first year or so, it was home to his glider rocker. it’s had a tent squeezed in occasionally. but, we were looking for something with more “wow”. well, […]