A holiday craft project we picked up at Michael's last week. It was a lot harder to create than the directions led me to believe. I challenge a seven year old to put that together by themselves. The poor snowmen have toothpicks all in them to hold the foam balls together.
A shot of the gift bags for the boys' teachers. I used leftover fleece to make the bags. I really should have gone the easy route and made them pillowcase style, but that didn't occur to me until I was trying to sew the bottoms onto the bags. Oh well. I printed off a poem a friend of mine wrote about how teachers are planting the seeds of the future with our children, baked some cookies, threw in some Lindt truffles and a packet of hot cocoa mix, tossed in tree ornaments, and added a little Thank You card for an extra touch. Since pretty much all of it came from stuff around the house or was handmade, it was pretty cheap.
Poor Travis is growing a mullet. The only part of his hair that is growing is the curls in the back. The sides just will not grow in. No one has mistaken him for a girl...yet. We are in NC, so maybe he'll be mistaken for a redneck baby.
I had read on another blog about celebrating Winter Solstice with new pajamas. Since it's the longest night of the year, it made complete sense. The boys and I went to Target and picked out new pajamas. Anything new excites Nicholas, especially if it comes from Target. He is so pleased with his striped pajama pants. He calls them big boy pajamas because they don't have any emergency or construction vehicles or animals on them. Travis is probably happy to have pajamas that are not hand-me-downs.
I don't have a picture of it, but all the leaves have been raked down to the curb. Adrian had spent the last two Saturdays coaching a lacrosse team in tournaments. Eight boys came to our house on Thursday with all their leaf gear (blowers, ear covers, rakes, etc.) and went to work. It took them a couple hours. I'd say that amounts to the same amount of man hours that Adrian spent away from home, so it's all fair. And in typical teenage boy style, they put tons of leaves around one guy's SUV to block him in. Then they took video and photos of him trying to pull away from the curb. Ahh - teenage testosterone. I can't wait until about 12 years from now!
1 comment:
We need a pajama photo.
I love Travis's "party in the back"!
And for bags, what I do is to sew them like a pillowcase, then gather and fold in the corners at the bottom, forming two triangles inside, and then sew along the longest side of each triangle to make a flat rectangular bottom-- I had to think hard and play with it the first time I sewed something that way, but if you look in the bottom of a flat tote bag or anything made all in one piece like that, you'll get the idea. Or maybe that's what you were talking about anyway... just a suggestion, if you hadn't thought of it!
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