Mommathon

Sean has taught Liam how to play checkers and Liam loves it!

The box started its life as a box that had Discovery Toys in it. It then took on numerous other lives…

The box as an airplane…notice the propeller

The box as Santa’s sleigh…with lots of toys in it

The box as a hang glider

This book was okay. It wasn’t a page turner, but it was good enough that I wanted to finish it. The story was about a woman whose parents are divorced and how she comes to terms with their divorce and second marriages through her writing. She also ends up realizing that she is older, more mature and “not a kid anymore” when someone (I won’t tell you who in case you read the book) ends up living with her (possibly) in the end.

I got brave today and decided to make homemade pretzels with the boys. They love the big, soft cinnamon-sugar pretzels they have at Sam’s, so we decided to make our own and they turned out YUMMERS!

Mixing

Kneading

Rolling

Eating

The finished product

1) Go to Wikipedia

2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.

3) List three events that happened on your birthday

4) List two important birthdays and one death

5) One holiday or observance (if any)

Here is my info:
3 Events:

1)1864- President Abraham Lincoln establishes the Secret Service to combat counterfeiting

2)1946- The bikini was introduced

3)1989-Seinfeld is aired for the first time

2 Important Birthdays
1) 1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
2) 1996 Dolly the Sheep

1 Death:
1) 2002 Ted Williams, baseball player

1 Holiday or Observance: Independence Day in Venezuela

We started out the day at Maria’s house where she always sets a beautiful table.

We didn’t get to eat there though, we just hung out and socialized and the boys played.

We then went home so the boys could get a nap and then went to my mom and Jim’s house. There we had turkey, stuffing, green beans, pumpkin pie, apple pie, apple salad, quiche and sweet potatoes.

After dinner the boys put puzzles together and roughhoused with Grandad.

Liam spent part of his afternoon reading to Butch. He read The Hat by Jan Brett, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat and To Market To Market, among others. The cat tolerated it.

Liam’s school had their Thanksgiving lunch today and we got to sit with Chloe and her mom and brother. I am so glad that Liam and Chloe are such good friends since they are classmates and neighbors. (I think Colm has a little crush on Chloe as well.) 🙂 We were also lucky that Nanny was able to eat with us, too. Liam’s class made some very creative placemats for our dinner that had fall leaves on them and on each leaf was something they were thankful for. Liam was thankful for: Uncle Patrick and Aunt Kate, Claire, Erin, Mommy, Daddy, Colm, Nanny, when I take him to the park, stuffed animals and daddy’s piggyback rides.

Every morning Colm has a waffle with honey or syrup and butter. The problem is that he wants to be able to visibly see that there is butter on every bite of his waffle, but the butter keeps melting. So I have to put butter on this waffle and then about two minutes later I have to reapply the butter on each individual bite. (He will let you know if you missed a spot.) Needless to say, we are running out of butter and quick!