Tag: fun
member name: Alicia is probably posting about her kids! H.
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November 06, 2009 09:18 AM EST --
Are you a member of the group Cocktail Time , owned by the lovely d.d.? If not, then you should be! You don't have to drink to be a member. All you have to do is enjoy getting together with friends, . . .
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August 31, 2009 10:28 AM EDT --
One of the great things about our new house is that it's quite close to one of our favorite parks. The other weekend we decided to see how close, so we drove out to the new house and . . .
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June 30, 2009 11:28 AM EDT --
We are really getting into the Fourth of July spirit here! Today's art project is 3-D stars that can be used as Independence Day decorations.
Draw two star outlines on heavy paper. Have your child color . . .
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August 31, 2009 04:46 PM EDT --
Sometimes I just have to laugh when I see my fiance-a tattooed, motorcycle-riding, pony-tailed guy, doing things with his little girls that I bet he thought he'd never do. It just shows what a good dad . . .
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July 09, 2009 11:35 AM EDT --
Last night I needed to make a run to Walgreen's and I decided we should all go. There is a pond (more like a drainage resevior) behind the parking lot that houses Walgreen's, Home Depot, and Texas Roadhouse. . . .
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July 29, 2009 02:56 PM EDT --
When I was a kid, my mom always had activities for us to do to keep us busy. Sometimes she would hand us a table spoon and tell us to go outside and "dig to China." Another absorbing task I remember from . . .
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August 11, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
It's has been really hot here lately, so to beat the heat the other day, I decided to take the kids for a walk in the woods. It was about five degrees cooler in the shade, and the lush green vegetation . . .
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August 19, 2009 05:05 PM EDT --
On Monday I took my girls to McDonald's for breakfast and to play in the play place. I was so proud of them when they climbed all the way to the top of the structure all by themselves! They were quite . . .
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July 20, 2009 04:20 PM EDT --
One of our favorite places to go in the summer time is the farmer's market. Besides getting locally grown fruits and vegetables, there are also great restaurants and shops, plus they have lots of free . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
This week our theme has been "space" in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon-July 20, 1969. It was ten years before I was born, so I have no memories of it, but I found a . . .
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April 24, 2009 10:52 AM EDT --
Tomorrow night we are having another couple over to play board games. We might have a couple of rounds of Scrabble, play a couple of hands of cards, or have a Monopoly marathon. It's a fun, (and free!) . . .
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April 28, 2009 08:36 AM EDT --
Yesterday, at 4:30, I was feeding snack to three kids, feeding a bottle to one, and entertaining another. Then, the doorbell rang. Now what?, I thought as I opened the door. There stood my mother and . . .
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July 13, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
When my Mom was here last week we took a trip to Michael's to stock up on art supplies and stickers. One of the cool things we bought was a set of paint rollers. No, not the kind you use to paint your . . .
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April 15, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
"Somebody to Love" by Queen in stuck in my head. What song is stuck in your head right now?
"Somebody to-oo love..."
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April 20, 2009 03:56 PM EDT --
I really wanted to plant something with my girls in honor of Earth Day, but I wanted to keep it simple so they could help. That's when I remembered the forget-me-not seeds from Glade that my mother-in-law . . .
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August 11, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
All this super-hot weather has me thinking about the beach, so that was the theme of our art project today. We used a variety of materials to make a mixed media picture of a beach scene.
First, I cut . . .
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October 29, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
One of the things I was sad to leave at our old house was our neighborhood playground. So one of the first things we did here was to punch park into the GPS, and we found the Deep Creek Lock Park. It's . . .
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November 03, 2009 01:14 PM EST --
The Saturday before Halloween, my twin girls turned two. In what seemed to be the worst timing ever, I came down with a stomach virus at 3am Wednesday. I didn't move off the couch all day Thursday, except . . .
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April 18, 2009 08:37 AM EDT --
Hi to all my Gather friends, Just wanted to say I probably won't be on much this weekend. The weather's supposed to be great and we will be spending lots of time outside. Yay! I hope you all have . . .
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August 27, 2009 12:14 PM EDT --
Although most kids have gone back to school already, we are still enjoying triple-digit temperatures and lots of sun, so a couple of days ago I decided to take the kids out to the kiddie pool in the backyard. . . .
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