It's been raining up a storm here in #HRVA these past few weeks -- my garden looks awesome but my kid is a little bored (and honestly, so am I). We've been turning a lot to craft books lately, and these two new releases are among our new favorites. I'm a big fan of sites like Pinterest, but they can get a little...
We stopped by the 61st Annual Norfolk NATO Festival this past Saturday -- it was my first NATOFest as an adult, and Anouk and James's first NATOFest ever, and we had a great time. For those of you new to the area, and those of you reading the blog from elsewhere, who might not know, Norfolk is the home of the U.S. NATO...
On a chilly trip to the beach last week, I left the sand toys at home in the hopes of keeping Anne out of the water (she always ends up drenched while filling her bucket and it was really too cold for that). Instead, I slipped a paint-with-water book that she got for her birthday and a few brushes into our beach bag....
For a lot of people, Easter means roast lamb and mint jelly, but in my mom's Lebanese family, holidays mean a Mediterranean feast is in store. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter always open the floodgates for me, and in the weeks after, I find myself cooking all of my old favorite family recipes because I'm suddenly in the mood for them. Right now, in...
Saturday the 12th was a lazy day for (some of) us here at the Watermelons Grow household. For some reason, having a lazy day actually makes a harder day to shoot than a busy one. Nonetheless, we'll take it (especially since we're having a busy week this week -- a flu-y cold and a lot of home reno stuff will do that to...
We dyed eggs this week, of course. And by "we" I mean that the adults dyed eggs -- the kids didn't seem interested beyond a first few dunks but get together a couple of Pinteresting mamas and you have the perfect way to while away an afternoon while the small ones dump toys out downstairs. My favorites were the pretty dip-dyed ones, I...
The Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach is in the process of being renovated -- completely renovated, which means every single thing in the hotel is being replaced. Which also means that every single thing in the hotel had to go -- so the new ownership threw open the doors in an unprecidented move and hosted probably the poshest, most exciting rummage sale that...
t Darcy of No Monsters in My Bed posted last summer about sandcasting with plaster of Paris and I knew right away we had to try it, where had this idea been all my life? We finally got around to trying it last week, probably because during the summertime, we're too bogged down with towels and drinks and snacks and floaties to feel like lugging...
We're starting the week off with some photos of the Easter egg hunt we attended this past weekend, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk. Some people may think a cemetery is a weird place for a bunch of kids to run around looking for plastic eggs, but I actually love the history and the atmosphere of cemeteries and Forest Lawn is an especially...
