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Are you and your little ones going stir-crazy yet? We are -- at least, we were yesterday. Today it's thankfully warmer, which means we can spend more time outside but when the temps were hovering in the low 20s? Forget about it. It made for a long day but we did end up having a lot of fun in it. Here are a...
As soon as I saw our new house, I knew I wanted to paint the front door. The front of the house is pretty neutral, with grey-blue siding and black shutters, and I thought a pop of color at the door would be a little more visually interesting than the plain white door that was there. Bright yellow was the main contender early...
I've always been a little obsessed with the idea of snow candy, ever since I first read Little House in the Big Woods in third grade. There's a scene where Ma pours maple syrup over snow and little Laura and Mary eat it up. Last week, on our third straight day of being cooped up, when the novelty of the snowstorm was wearing...
MacArthur Mall's outdoor skating rink ended its season earlier this week, but that's no reason why you can't keep skating through the rest of the winter season. There are plenty of places in the Hampton Roads area where you can strap on a pair of blades and glide over the ice (or fall all over it, in my case). Here are five great...
One of the perks of living right by the beach is that you get to know it in all types of weather. There's the stormy spring beach-- the summer sunny beach -- the autumn beach, with the goldenrod growing in the dune grass. And the snowy beach in winter, quiet and austere. When we woke up after last night's snowfall, James and I...
This regular feature has suffered a little as I've tightened my purse strings -- both literally and figuratively. I'm trying to put away more than I spend, and only bring things I'm sure will be beautiful or useful or both into our new home (having to pack and move a ton of junk will do this to you. It's still fresh in my...
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Time for the first 12 in 12 of 2014! This month, the 12th fell on a Sunday, which means that our day was only very slightly different from an average day. When you're a SAH parent (or a WAH one), weekends don't really mean the same thing as they did before. It's like a weird version of Narnia -- always Friday, never quite...
We've been enjoying all of our Christmas presents over the past few weeks but one of the big hits for us as a family has been a little unassuming board game -- a coloring game called The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, based on a book of the same name by Eric Carle. Anouk got it from her Aunt Bonne, who has a...
My guest post about our visit to the Air and Space Center in Hampton went up at My Active Child a couple of days ago but I forgot to post it here! I guess my brain was moving slow thanks to the cold weather we were having. Anyway, we had a great time exploring and hope to go back soon! Click here to...
