And a Happy Thursday and Friday! 😉 We started our family holidays on Tuesday and have been having a magical week. We celebrate over a few days here in order to spend time with extended family and still have our own time together. We have our family celebration, supper and presents on the winter solstice,…
Author: Alicia
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! Thank you to Sara and Yvonne, who sent us ornaments for our tree — one homemade link from a family paper chain and one twisted glass. We were all thrilled to get them and absolutely treasure them. They will do a wonderful job of making up for those we lost and they have…
Soapy Fun!
Magical Mama April recommended this post from the ever-fabulous Mind Games blog this morning. How many ways can you possibly find to have fun with bars of soap???? 🙂 I see some clean messes in our future…
A Little Picture and Poem by Victoria
Presents have boxes Presents have bows You won’t get a present If you bite my toes Happy Thursday!
Snow Day!
We got a wee bit of snow around these parts recently. I used the opportunity to have a bit of snow fun at the dining room table. I had my faithful assistant, Victoria, go get bowls full of fresh snow and fill an under-the-bed storage container with it. Then I put it on the table…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! I had so much fun reading your comments from my silliness assignment the other day that I’ve swiped 10 of them for today’s list of ways to make the day magical. There are lots more than these 10 (I love the sheet cake story!), so be sure to check the original post to…
Happy Holidays from the Real Us!
Every holiday season, we have a tradition of dressing all the kids up in some fancy clothes and taking them someplace suitably festive to take holiday pictures. Sometimes it’s a nearby casino resort that puts up an indoor sleigh for photos. We take pictures and then go to their buffet restaurant for dinner. Sometimes it’s…
Thanks John
This gem of a quote has been circulating friends’ Facebook statuses the past couple of days and it made me smile so much I had to pass it on… “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me…
Today’s Assignment
Wednesday’s Assignment: Do 10 silly things with your kids. Extra credit if you post some of them here. 🙂
Free Christmas Songs and Art
From now through Christmas, Amazon is giving away free Christmas songs to download every day. A new song is unveiled each day, and you can also download all of the songs that have been posted up till that day… all free! So far there have been songs like Chris Isaak’s “Auld Lang Syne,” The Indigo…