Archive for the ‘Judah&Wezzy’ Category
It is really important to me that my children learn early on that the world does not revolve around them and one of the most efficient ways that I have stumbled upon in helping them learn that is by encouraging them to encourage others – when you are thankful for and are praising others it is rather [...]
Happy Valentines Day! I had fabulous plans of romancing my little men on this day, in full masculine style with some fun manly gifts, but then Paul had a rather insightful observation and suggested I not. It was a wise decision. Simple is good. Romancing can be done with simple things. And that’s what we’ve [...]
One of our long term goals for our boys is that they be able to effectively communicate with people – including expressing gratitude in a genuine and meaningful way. Which means thank you notes start now. {or technically a couple years ago – but now they suddenly *get* it.} Which means figuring out a way [...]
I found these fantastic solid white pigs at the Dollar Tree a couple of weeks ago and stashed them away for a rainy day project. With a supply of paint brushes {to avoid color mixing} and napkins laid out to keep the table top clean the boys painted away. The eyes were one of the [...]
Inspired by a cardboard box maze my parents made for me when I was young I decided I wanted to make a maze for Judah’s 4th birthday – weeks ahead of time we put the word out to friends that we were collecting large boxes and we started making phone calls to local appliance stores. [...]
His birthday {Thursday} and party {Sunday} were spectacular. Sunday was spent with friends-that-are-more-like-family and it was a beautiful celebration of our sweet 4 year olds life. I am so very thankful for each of our friends that came – we are so blessed to have them in our lives – in our boys lives. His [...]
Dear Judah – Can a letter contain my thoughts of you in honor of your 4th birthday? I don’t think it can. But I will try. And when you get to the end of this letter know this – it does not contain the half of what I wish to convey to you. And if [...]
