One of my favorite school events is the annual Desserts with Dad. It’s a chance for dads (and anyone else special in your kids’ family) to go to school with their kids at night, buy them some books, and eat some cupcakes and cookies with them. Allie’s been volunteering for it the past few years, and handles buying all the food and distributing it at the two-day event. (They break it out over two days …
Is there anyone on the planet who doesn’t like mac and cheese? (Apologies to all you lactose-intolerant folks out there.) Next to chicken nuggets, mac & cheese is one of my kids’ favorite meals. I think Ryan’s blood must be fluorescent orange by now from all that cheesy powder he’s ingested the past few years. He’s soooo particular about his mac & cheese too. It has to be Kraft. And it has to be the …
I found this on some social network (forgot where) and can’t seem to find the original owner. Paste it in the comments if you know whose scary puppy this is!
So Allie started making Jason’s Halloween costume. (That’s a topic for another blog post…) She needed a large box for his body and bought two different sized ones. While she was working on the more narrow of the boxes, Ryan made a discovery. Like a cat who simply can’t resist an empty bag, Ryan was called to it. And after struggling with the box for a few minutes (not quite sure why he couldn’t figure …
Back in June, I celebrated my 40th birthday and got one of the coolest gifts ever: a Lego Avengers Quinjet. I started putting it together with my boys but various parties and events kept distracting us from finishing it. Until this weekend! Ryan really wanted to finish it, so we dove in on Saturday and started. Sunday morning, we opened the final bag and the beginning of the end began. Jason joined us too and we …
