More Than a Little

I feel lucky for I have a child who theoretically enjoys trick-or-treating, and not one who actually enjoys it. We were out for maybe 45 minutes and we went to more houses than Princess Evie really felt necessary. She had fun, but she had enough after the first five houses. Better than last year, though–at [...]

Last year, we made Evelyn a dollhouse bookcase. I wanted to use it as a bookcase, but she had other ideas.  It has been used exclusively for Barbies ever since it made it into her room in the fall. It has been a real mess mostly since, but she’s enjoyed it and I love it [...]

What an exciting day!  My daughter has a twin sister that I had never met!  May I introduce you to my newly discovered other daughter, Chella Mademoiselle? (That’s her full name, according to Evelyn. I was apparently very out of it the day she they were born because not only did I block out the [...]

I went through some old school papers recently and found a science project that I made when I was about ten or eleven.  It was a leaf collection, put together in a folder with different leaves carefully stuck onto the pages and sealed with contact paper.  I have a vague memory of doing this, surprisingly, [...]

October made me feel very warm and posty (HA!) but November apparently sapped all my will to write.  I think I was probably anticipating Thanksgiving, and more importantly, Black Friday, so I stopped thinking of topics to write about in favor of perusing advance ad scans and the like.  They say it takes three weeks [...]

I have seen this project floating around in the blogosphere for a while, and I finally got around to picking up some rice last week so we could work on it.  Initially, I was grumbling to myself about purchasing ten pounds of rice (it came to around $6.50) that we weren’t even going to eat, [...]

Back in January, I posted about a site with free furniture plans called Knock Off Wood. (She’s since moved everything to Ana-White.com).  I’m clearly not going to be the most prolific woodworker ever, but I have followed through with my intentions to build something from one of those plans and thought it’d be a good [...]

We’ve always had a hard time getting Evie (now three) to take her medicine when she needs to. She came down with a cold or something yesterday evening, and we heard lots of cries of “It’s yucky! It’s yucky!” last night before more or less making her swallow it. Even then, she would take minuscule [...]

I took my almost-three-year-old out to play the other night while my husband was working in the yard.  She had a few restrictions on where she was allowed to play, due to the yard work going on, and after a while she started getting antsy and bored. “Evie, can you bring me four different kinds [...]

Yesterday, I baked two lasagnas, because I am a good wife and my husband needed more frozen lunches for his stockpile.  I always freeze our leftovers into individual meals so he never has to take cardboard frozen food to work with him.  Anyway, they were ready to put in the oven, but my daughter, who [...]