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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
homemade popsicles.
knocked off another summer bucket list item, by pouring orange juice and lemonade into popsicle containers, waiting, and then consuming…
our new favorite pool
this summer, i researched joining a bunch of different pools, before deciding that the cost to go to tanglewood park’s pool was only $7 per trip and we’d have to go a lot of times to justify paying $400 or more to join any of the “private” area pools. plus, we finally paid the yearly […]
homemade play doh
yesterday, we accomplished summer to-do list item number 1: make play doh. i think isaac was more excited to “x” it off the chalkboard than he was to actually make the play doh. but, he went along with it for my sake… we located a recipe on the internetz and got to work. lemonade for […]
summer checklist
once again, i ran across a cool idea on pinterest and couldn’t rest until i had implemented it in my own home: the summer bucket list. i saw a few, from simple poster boards, to colorul picture frames backed with scrapbook paper, to my favorite: a giant chalkboard. unfortunately, we don’t (didn’t) own a chalkboard…. […]
comin’ ’round the mountain…
derek’s parents have a time share in blowing rock nc. last week was their week. we are bored and tired of the same old same old. so on tuesday, we visited. i got us all packed up and when the two lid kids awakened from their beauty sleep, we hit the road. the trip up […]