We have a new favorite grocery store, Wegmans, mainly due to the gracious accomodations for my personal shopping assistants. It’s the only place in town where Tommy can drive the grocery cart for me!
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Our New Favorite Park
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, State College, Tommy on Aug 2nd, 2010
I’m going to be really honest. The difference in my emotional state between living in an unfriendly, crowded, dirty big city and living in a welcoming, charming small college town is amazing. I already feel more at home here than I ever did there. We haven’t been here two months, and we’re already grilling out […]
Six years ago, I pledged my love and faithfulness to a crazy guy who loved God, Detroit, and the color orange, just to name a few. Thusfar my walk with the Lord has been strengthened, I’ve come to appreciate certain aspects of the Motor City (not enough to live there yet–sorry, Mom M!), and I’ve […]
Tommy, from the bathtub: “Mommy! Winnie the Pooh is the pastor and they are all singing a hymn!” [Proceeds to sing “Angels We Have Heard on High” with slightly different text.] Elizabeth, at the end of dinner: “Mama! I pray.”
A Boy and His Robots
Posted in Homemaking, Tommy on Jul 26th, 2010
Thanks to Woot, via Mariel, we purchased an iRobot Roomba vacuum at a serious discount. This vacuum cleaner works extremely well. It’s wonderful living in the year 2010 and letting a robot do some house work. Importantly, Tommy is a fan of all things robotic. He’s always eager to let the robot go “eat the […]
A little old (Derek’s still catching up on our video camera), but still a common sight. [youtube]P12asGbOmLI&hd=1&rel=0[/youtube]
We’re into a nice bedtime routine this summer. After dinner, we usually go straight to the bath tub, where the kids play until they’re pruney. Usually the Little One gets out first, and after getting dried off and lotioned up, she immediately searches for her shoes, even though we tell her she can’t wear them […]
She’s thinking about it… …and there she goes! Tommy narrates it all to Grandma (along with a drawn-out story of how we had to go to the store this morning to get more milk for his sister…fortunately, grandmas have a grand capacity to listen to their grandson’s ramblings…).
Preschool Update
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Jul 19th, 2010
Tommy has been LOVING his school time! I ran out of ideas and time last week to keep making up my own worksheets, so I picked up some preschool activity books that have pages on shapes and colors. He’s not ready for writing letters and numbers yet, but he does recognize them. He BEGS me to […]
The kids and I just got back from a quick trip to DC for a Mauck girls reunion! Clare and Natalie flew out to stay with Regina and Margee this week, so we decided to tag along for a couple days. Wednesday night, Clare surprised us with an envelope full of predictions that we wrote […]