you guys. this kid turned seventeen in january of 2024. seven. teen. feels like this was yesterday. like previous years, his birthday aligned with exams and the semester break at school, so he got to spend his day doing what he loves. gaming. the boy agreed to homemade nachos for dinner and then opened his […]
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december hap-hap-happenings.
now here is the part where i try to remember all the little moments from last december. the day to day stuff. when it wasn’t actual christmas or hazel’s birthday or cookie baking mayhem. let’s seeeeee. i always love the first few mornings after the tree is up and i have my coffee in the […]
christmassy. twenty twenty three.
we waited until christmas eve to do gingerbread houses in 2023. not sure why. i assume time just got away from me. but it made for a lovely christmas eve activity. messy. sugary. but lovely. i premade the houses with graham crackers, added a sugar cone tree, bought a million decor items, and we got […]
christmas cookie extravaganza of 2023
once again, i/we WAAAY overdid it with baking for christmas. i say it every year, but NEXT year, i will tone it down a bit. (and i can confirm that last years declaration went unheeded and i went off the rails again this year. but NEXT YEAR….) last year though. 2023. i had helpers. eager […]
a decade of crazelnut
another december brought another birthday for our hazelnut. ten this time. a full decade of the crazel. so, smack in the middle of all the holiday feasting, we crammed in a bunch of birthday celebrations. the first such occurrence was lunch with her class. she requested chick fil a nuggets, and was very disappointed when […]
a whole lot of november things.
in order to keep this post manageable, i had to write a lot of separate smaller posts about november happenings, but it’s still a big one. and even though as i write it, it’s only 12 days into december, all of these memories feel like they were months and months ago. so much stuff crammed […]
thanksgiving in nc this year.
we have not celebrated thanksgiving in north carolina for quite a few years. first, it was because we had the freedom to do whatever when i homeschooled. then there was a sad lonely idiotic covid year. then, the next year, the kids had a super long break from school so we went to ny. and […]
halloween cookie bake off.
it is becoming a bit of a halloween tradition to make a batch of halloween themed sugar cookies. we almost didn’t get to it this year, but thanks to a four day school break before halloween, we managed to eek out this last little bit of holiday spirit. i made the dough while the kids […]
a little fall trip to the mountains
we didn’t do a very good job of participating in fall themed activities this year. pumpkin patches and whatnot. but, we did manage to squeeze in a weekend excursion to asheville to get the heck out of winston-salem and see some of the color changing leaves of the mountains. we drove out after school on […]
a very haunted halloween spooky village quilt.
i recently completed construction on my spooky village neighborhood and all thirty dwellings are inhabited by a myriad of various halloween citizens. i absolutely could not be more pleased with how this one turned out, from the bright happy colors, to the quilting, to the scrappiness, and mostly to all of the fussy cuts. now […]