When I was about ten, I went to summer camp and learned a ton of camp songs. It must have been all the repetition which cemented them in my brain because I can still remember a handful today. Put a watermelon rind in the palm of my hand and let the juice s-s-seep through.Put a […]
My dad and I lit a candle for my grandfather Thursday when they left. Counting from the far left corner, it’s in the third column, the fifth one down. Walker and I took a moment to say a prayer in front of it again on Sunday after mass. May he rest in peace.
Mason turned ten today! He woke up with the birthday quilt on his bed and had his breakfast in bed. All four of us snuggled in his room while he opened presents. I had to get creative and pull out some fabric to wrap the extra long box the hockey stick came in. He also […]
Thank goodness for Facebook and the photos that one of the dads posted throughout the week. We knew it rained on Monday but they were prepared with ponchos. They had a raucous time at dinner on Tuesday. This was the troop, I believe, before going to Mass. Ben, Walker and Jerett participated in a triathlon. […]
With one away, the mice will play, and play we did! Early Monday morning we went to Starbucks to have our book talk. He and I chose to read I Even Funnier by James Patterson. We are fans of this series and we enjoyed chatting about the many funny jokes and scenes we could remember. […]
Joseph, Walker, Ian, Ben, Jerett, Tristan and Cameren headed off to Camp Ransburg early Sunday morning. They will be gone for a week. Walker is packed up and ready to go. His trunk is packed with his Class A and B uniforms, his hatchet, all of the merit badge books and the prerequisites he worked […]
My BBFF (best blogging friend forever) was braver than I to pull out a camera in the torrential downpour. Our church hosts what I grew up calling a church carnival. Around these parts, they are called summer socials but our current parish renamed it last year as the Summerfest. No matter what the name, its […]
Last Saturday was Worldwide Knit in Public Day. My local knitting store planned to meet at the promenade to have a giant group of knitters out doing what knitters do best—knit! They ordered T-shirts and best of all, they planned to yarn bomb the rails of the promenade. Yarn bombing is like graffiti but with […]
There is a lot going on this week starting with our summer social at church tomorrow through Saturday and then Walker leaves for scout camp on Sunday. That meant that tonight was the best night to celebrate Bill for Father’s Day. They each picked out fun greetings cards and at least one of them sang. […]
Before Mason left for camp, I noticed he had printed out a pattern or two of the tenth Doctor Who character. He was planning ahead for handicrafts. I didn’t think much of it, but it was clever since he remembered that using Perler beads was one of the options last year. There are lots of […]