You might remember that I won a Blabla doll from Giving Gifts a while back. I wanted to follow up and say that Lee Lee Plum is still a big hit at my house. My daughter remains quite enamored with her doll, who is holding up quite nicely to the love and attention she's been receiving. I would definitely recommend picking up a Blabla doll. The wool is soooo … [Read more...]
S is for… Swimming and Scribbling Too
My three year old daughter has been dreaming about swimming in the ocean blue with her wolfie friend. (Trust me, a pretend wolf who likes the ocean and can turn into other animals isn't even that odd compared to some of her other imaginary friends, like for example the mean dust bunny in a top hat she used to hang out with.) Yesterday I was working in the kitchen and she was … [Read more...]
Rainbow & Wolfie’s Amazing Dreamtime Adventures
Rainbow's regular hand-me-down Sesame Street bedspread is currently in the wash. I gave her my couch throw as a substitute blanket. It's a sort of blue fuzzy woolie thing with a wolf on it. It really sparked off her imagination. Apparently the giant wolf on the blanket, accompanies her on her dreamtime adventures. The conversation we had this morning went something like … [Read more...]
R is for… READING
Yes, my three year old daughter insists on "reading" the dictionary. She just flips through page after page and makes up stories out loud. … [Read more...]
Finally Figured Out What’s Eating Up All My Time… And It’s My Kids, Literally
As a stay at home mom, one of the things I find myself constantly pondering is where does the time go? I often feel the need to justify to others what exactly I did all day. I had a bit of an epiphany this week when I came to the realization that right now I spend six to eight hours a day feeding my children. This is not an exaggeration. I'm not even counting the time … [Read more...]
Silly Things My Three Year Old Says
Here's a quick collection of some of the quirky things my three year old daughter says: I've got the thinking power in my head.... and YOU've got music in YOUR head. What kind of creature is an ant? An insectivore! My pretend friends have a fever, and so they can't talk. That's why I need you mom! I need someone that can talk! Too bad we don't have a dunk egg … [Read more...]
Out of the Mouths of Moms…. Or Crazy Things I Say to My Three Year Old
Photo credit: Gustavo Devito Here's a few more of the mom things I never expected to find myself saying: Why do you have shoes on? We're not going anywhere. Please take them off. Yes, they do make lots of loud thunky noises. No, that is not a good reason for leaving them on. Don't just stand there and tell me you're going pee, do something about it! Your fork … [Read more...]
Thirty Some Years of Little Red Riding Hood
When I was 4 years old we went to visit relatives in Florida and my Great Aunt Eve gifted me with an antique child's manikin named Heidi. Heidi came dressed in a little red fur trimmed cape with matching skirt. I have no clue exactly how old she is, but I was told she was "an antique" when I was given her over thirty years ago. That year for Halloween I … [Read more...]
The Problem with PINK
I remember being in Grade Three and having the teacher tell us that pink is for girls, while blue is for boys. She then went around the class asking us what our favourite colour was. While the boys all picked different shades, from orange to green, as their favourite, the girls all dutifully chimed in with "Pink", until she got to me. I told her that my favourite colour was … [Read more...]
Easy Directions to Roast Your Pumpkin Seeds, YUM!
Rainbow has been really excited about having pumpkin seeds. The last thing she said to me when heading to bed last night was, "Mom you're going to cook those seeds while I'm sleeping, right?" Yes, I know Halloween is over... but that just means that there are lots of leftover pumpkins lurking around for dirt cheap. Also, I'm fond of the smaller, sweeter, pie pumpkins … [Read more...]
Happy Halloween from Little Red Riding Hood and My Little Pumpkin
Me and Rocket Rainbow as Little Red Riding Hood Little Red coming back home to show me her first treat of the night. Whenever you celebrated and whatever you did, hope you had a fantastic time this weekend! … [Read more...]
A Blast from Halloween Past…
As part of my journey to capture my childhood, I recently wrote a bit about some of the Halloween costumes my mom made me over the years. With Halloween being tomorrow I thought I'd share this awesome photo my mom dug up of me and my siblings. That's me as (the ill-fated) Fairy Princess, my brother as Wee Willy Winkie and my sister as Little Red Riding Hood, Halloween Eve … [Read more...]
O is for… Ontario the Beautiful
Ontario. This lovely place that I live in. O is also for outside. My favourite place within Ontario to be outdoors is Algonquin Park. I have camped there several times. Each time was wonderful and quite memorable. My first time visiting the park when I saw how awe inspiring a place it was my immediate reaction was THIS is the place that all those lovely postcards … [Read more...]
A Pox on My House….
My husband's been sick for the past few days. As in, truly miserable, sent home from work twice, sick. It's such a horrible feeling, watching him stumble around the house in misery, while I'm just waiting with dread to see who it will strike next. Knowing the inevitability of it, that the girls are likely to take sick at any moment. Ugh. It's immensely depressing. We tried to … [Read more...]
Neglect the Chores, But Not the Kids
N is for... Neglect ...as in what my house suffers from but (I hope/think) my children do not. I will admit with some small embarrassment that this sadly is what my kitchen often looks like, but this happily is what my children look like. My mom had this yellowed newspaper clipping that hung on our fridge for much of my childhood. It was from a Dear … [Read more...]