the coop has been done for awhile and the chickens moved in permanently earlier this month. lucy terrorizes them in their coop/run, chasing them from one side to the other. anna enjoys playing in the coop. so does ike. and anna likes having them contained so she can catch them easily. we let them out […]
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public school. day one.
well. even though it’s still 900 degrees, i guess summer is over and it’s time for school. isaac, at a whopping “five and a half” (don’t dare leave off the half), had his very first day of kindergarten today. he was pretty excited. and picked out this shirt himself. and has decided that i’ll wash […]
a dress for the annababy.
after finishing up the granny square quilt, i was looking for a smaller, less time consuming sewing project. so, i pinned about a thousand little girl’s dresses and then picked out one that seemed kind of easy. first, i made one with some fabric that i wasn’t super crazy about. it was a little big […]
playing with food. angry birds style.
oh, pinterest. i found this idea on pinterest from the site, little hands, big work. and, then i was on a quest for angry birds fruit snacks. finally, on a trip to joann’s to load up on thread, i happened upon these in the checkout line: i rustled up some building type food, cut up […]
zoo.
we’ve had zoo on our summer to do list last year and this year. last year, we never made it. this year, my old college roommate and hoops teammate invited us to go, and we really had no choice but to pack up and go. and that’s the story of what we did today. we […]
chicken love
the fluffy baby chicks are getting big fast. they’re getting feathery and are able to fly up and around for a few seconds. the lidkids were a little afraid of them at first, but are getting used to them. isaac still hates when they flutter about unpredictably, and runs away screaming. we are starting to […]
scrappy granny.
whenever i think “scrappy granny”, i picture a little old lady, with a cane and a purse, who gets in fights on the street. anyhoooo… i finished my scrappy granny squares quilt. that is, my first scrappy granny squares quilt. because i still have enough 2.5 inch squares to make 28 more granny squares. i […]
beating the heat.
our friend heather is a member at a local pool. and she invites us all the time. but, i’ve had such unpredictable pool experiences with the lid kids, i always decline for fear of the unknown. yesterday, after a few days of endless playdates at our own house, i was eager to get the little […]
super playdate mania
ever since the chickens have arrived, we’ve had a lot of playdates. who would have thought some fuzzy little poultry could make us so popular. 🙂 (disclaimer: it’s not that the people who have come over only like us for our chickens. they come over all the time. just not so many in a row. […]
chickens!
for awhile now, we’ve been trying to feed our kids better stuff. shop local. blah blah. and then, one fateful day, the topic of getting our own chickens came up. after much research (mostly by derek), we dove in. on monday, this box arrived: anna was psyched. they were so very cute and fuzzy. and […]