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Lots of fours in our life right now. The Fourth of July. Fourth Grade. Four Kids, if I count Ken and of course, I do. We had a fairly peaceful and quiet Fourth of July. After making plans and having them dissolve at the last minute, we celebrated in our backyard with burgers, coleslaw, strawberries […]
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Happy, happy Daddy’s Day to all the daddies, grandfathers, djedos, uncles we know!!! Ours was a fairly quiet day…started off with a yummy breakfast…chocolate chip pancakes, bacon and strawberries. Followed by presents and cards….Our gift basket for Daddy included a sports book he’s been eyeing…an Awesome Dad t-shirt (he has to get one a year […]
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Kata’s last day at Sunflower Preschool was also the Pizza Party for Daddies (i.e. their Father’s Day celebration)…and as I dropped her off the front yard of the school was crowded with well dressed dads, grandfathers and uncles…all waiting anxiously for the performance. Much like Mother’s Day Tea, Ms. Juanita, the storyteller, came and according […]
posted in: Family, Holidays, Milestones
In case you are in need of reading glasses like me these days…the caption reads – Very early in the morning They come pitter pattering and thumping onto my bed… Happy Mother’s Day, Mama! they shout, giggling and laughing carrying their creations proudly. It was about 7 am…that’s late in our household and I was […]
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Another year at Sunflower Preschool brings us the Mothers’ Day Tea tradition…I personally love this celebration most of all…it’s just the mommies, grandmothers and aunts…and only the students of Sunflower…they ask kindly that you do not bring any siblings…it’s such fun to do things together,by ourselves…just Kata and I…so important to spend some time alone […]
posted in: Family, Holidays, Things We Love
When you’re Eastern Orthodox, on most years you get two Easters…for the first one, that darn Easter Bunny visits and everyone eats too much sugar…for the second, you go to church and pray…and on Easter Sunday enjoy a fabulous Easter Dinner complete with yummy Greek Salad and Roasted Lamb…so delicious. On Saturday, we colored our […]
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Bella still yawning…she stayed up late the night before. So it was Easter today for everyone but Eastern Orthodox Christians…sometimes our Easter falls on the same Sunday and other times it’s as much as a month apart…and this year it’s the far apart version…for those curious there are good explanations out there…but basically it has […]