We don’t host a lot of parties, but I do know that when you are hosting a party it is a MAJOR faux pas to run out of liquor. You don’t want to buy too much (liquor isn’t cheap), but you don’t want to run out either. Evite has solved all of the world’s party problems with the “drink calculator“.
Archive for June 2008
I read a different author!!! However, once I was about 100 pages into this book I realized I had already read this book before. I wasn’t going to stop though. I had already devoted that much time to it, so I figured I would just keep going. It is a good book and it reminds us how incredibly easy we have it. This book takes place in 1899 on a farm in Appalachia. The newly married couple have just about every possible bad thing that can happen to them take place in a year’s time. It is also a good reminder of how much work we don’t have to do. The book is very descriptive when it comes to going through the steps it takes just to have some chicken for dinner, for example, starting with going to the hen house to get the chicken, killing it, taking out all the feathers, scalding it, degutting it…goodness gracious!!! Not to mention all of the work of farming, canning, washing the clothes, ugh!!!
We had a fun and busy Saturday. We were lazy this morning and just hung out. The boys played video games while I made eggs and toast. We had breakfast together as a family which never happens, so that was nice. Then we got ourselves all cleaned up and went to go see Wall-E. It was a great movie for kids with a wonderful message about taking care of the earth and your body. The boys also got free Wall-E watches at the movie theater which they thought was pretty cool. We then went to the grocery store and then headed home so I could go swimming with the boys and Sean could go to the health club. After that we went to the Wizards game where the boys feasted on pizza, nachos, frozen lemonade and Dippin’ Dots. The Wizards won 1-0 so the boys were happy. Now they are conked out in bed.
I read somewhere recently about someone whose grandmother, I think it was, would put their pillows in the freezer in the summertime. Well, today was the first hot day of the summer and the boys were going on and on about how hot they were after camp today. So, I told them to take their shirts off and put them in the freezer. They looked at me like a was off my rocker for about two seconds and then happily complied. About thirty minutes later we took them out and they put them back on. The super cool shirts were very refreshing and the boys were much more comfortable.
Liam got a desk for his bedroom yesterday and he said it was the best day ever. Clearly, he likes it. He was so excited that after bathtime he happily found his journal and made two new entries. One of them was about his new desk, of course.
Great movie. It is the story of a woman who immigrates to America from India with her husband shortly after they are married. The movie also focuses on their oldest child as he is growing up and how easily he is swept up in American culture without even realizing what he was leaving behind.
Okay, okay, I know I said I was going to take a break from reading her books, but this was the one that came in at the library, so I read it. I am learning that this author doesn’t always like to wrap things up nice and neat at the end. Sometimes that bothers me, but it was okay with this book. It is a story of Paige and Nicholas who are from different sides of the tracks, but both have their own skeletons/issues that they bring into their relationship. The reader is left at the end not really knowing where their relationship is going.
We signed the kids up for a few weeks of daycamp this summer at their new school in hopes that they might meet a friend or two who they might recognize on the first day of school and to also just help with the transition. Today was their first day. We got there a little early so the boys had time to play on the playground before going to class. That was great. There was no Colm clinging to my leg, which I was a little worried about; off he went to play on the playground without even looking back. They also gave a glowing report when I went to pick them up. Liam has made a friend (who is a girl) who likes to play Star Wars as much as he does and Colm told me about a quilt he made with patterns. Colm also was very proud of himself because he got to take his lunch in a lunch sack like a big boy. He thought that was pretty cool. 🙂 Huge sigh of relief from the parents.
Our neighborhood has a summer book club for kids. Today was the first time they met after having read the book Snaggle Doodles. We met at the clubhouse and the kids talked about the book for a bit. The book was about a group of kids who invent something, so the mom who runs the bookclub brought a bunch of stuff/trash and the kids worked together to make their own invention. After they were done, there was a drawing to see who got to keep it and Liam won. Once he got it home he made a few adjustments and added a bit more tape to keep everything in place. And in case you are wondering…it’s a robot.
Two weeks ago the boys had Vacation Bible School. Colm loved it. This was his first year and he was so excited to do something the “big kids” get to do. Not only that, but one of his buddies was in the same class.