Reunion: Family

A few weeks ago ODD’s family had their family reunion.  For those who don’t know ODD is #9 of 10 kids and the reunion only includes his parents and sibling and their families.  Altogether they total just over 50 people.  Since there are so many kids it’s hard to get everyone together all the time [...]

Food Today

For lunch today I made the kids pb&j (with homemade strawberry jam) which they love, but for myself I wanted something different so I made a little caprese salad.  I had some fresh mozzarella on hand so I diced some up along with a vine ripened tomato and I even got to chiffonade a leaf of [...]

New Shoes

Today I spent a few hours making some shoes for Wingnut.

I went on a quilting shop hop last week and picked up some fat quarters in some fun boyish prints so I could sew up some little boy shoes.  I used the Stardust shoes pattern I used last time I made him some shoes.  His feet [...]

Water Day

Last week while my parents were in town for my dad’s concert we got together with some friends for a water day.  We had so much fun a couple of years ago and tried to get one together last year but for various reasons it just didn’t happen.  I’m so happy we were able to [...]

Let’s Go Fly A Kite

ODD bought some cheapie, little kites for his family’s reunion a few weeks ago and we didn’t end up using them so I returned all but one.  We gave that one to Peanut and on Saturday we took her to the park to fly it after a picnic (or as Peanut says “pick-a-nick”) dinner.

It’s [...]