Elizabeth got to celebrate all day long, starting with breakfast in bed… And continuing with presents from the Fam… I remembered I’d won a Starbucks giftcard and took the kids out for steamers as a special treat… Then her BFF, Noa, came over to play… Then we had Community Group (potluck theme: breakfast for dinner, […]
Category Archive for 'Elizabeth'
Elizabeth at 6.
Posted in Elizabeth on May 13th, 2015
Seven years ago, I was bawling in the arms of our kingdom group, grieving the miscarriage of our second child. Three months later, the day we moved out of our house in St Louis, I bawled again as I looked at a positive pregnancy test and feared the coming nine months. The scariest thing I’ve […]
A rare mom-and-kids picture
Posted in Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on May 11th, 2015
Someone at Hillsdale is writing an article on graduates who are SAHMs, so they interviewed Anna and me (because of E2S). When they asked for pictures, I realized I don’t have any decent pictures of the kids and me! Seriously, I’m always the one behind the camera! On a family outing this weekend, I had […]
Last CBS Park Day of the Year
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on May 8th, 2015
We had our last CBS meeting yesterday, which meant our last homeschool park day afterwards! Over the past three years, these afternoons are pretty much the highlights of our month. Since we’re not doing a formal birthday party for Elizabeth next week, we brought cupcakes and had everybody sing “Happy Birthday”–with some babies not pictured, […]
Three Missing Teeth!
Posted in Elizabeth on May 6th, 2015
I was honestly planning to buy corn on the cob today at Sprouts because it’s on sale. Not sure how mean that would be to Elizabeth. She has officially passed her brother in missing teeth after pulling out the other bottom tooth herself last night!
Increasingly Toothless Grin!
Posted in Elizabeth on May 3rd, 2015
Tommy lost his first two teeth last summer, at the seasoned age of seven and a half (he hasn’t lost anymore since then). Elizabeth knocked out her first tooth at age 4 and just pulled out her second tooth a week shy of 6. The other bottom one is loose, so I think the kids […]
Normal School Day
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on May 2nd, 2015
I haven’t done a school update in a while, but here’s what things looked like yesterday: Tommy is doing his math practice while Elizabeth entertains Susie with her new sticker book from James. Janie does a busy bag while I check to make sure Tommy is doing his division correctly. When Tommy no longer needs […]
A Little Girls’ Dream
Posted in Elizabeth on Apr 25th, 2015
The girls were invited to a Frozen birthday party today, complete with Elsa and Anna dropping in to teach the girls a dance to Let It Go. (The thing in LA seems to be hiring aspiring actors to dress up as the birthday child’s favorite characters…) After singing and dancing, the princesses stayed to paint […]
Princesses and Pie-rats, or How I Threw A Four Year Old Birthday Party With a Little Help From My Friends
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 23rd, 2015
I’d assumed that Susie would request a ballet theme for her birthday party this year–I’d bought a ton of ballerina party stuff last year, she’s even more obsessed this year, and she lives in a tutu. But she insisted back in March that she wanted a “hook in the hand” party, which it took me […]
LA Festival of Books!
Posted in California, Children's Books, Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 20th, 2015
We finally went, because my parents were here, and we figured a 1:1 adult:child ratio would be good. The kids recently got The Day the Crayons Quit from Derek’s Complex Litigation class when they came over for dinner, and we’ve been enjoying it ever since. Imagine our excitement when we found out the author and […]