Hail, Knight of the Magenta Countenance!

Where we see playground equipment, my son sees armour,  a sword–a noble knight!  (Do you see it?)

~K

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What It’s Like: Three Girls & One Boy

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Moving: All You Need to Know

I set a few parameters for myself when I started this blog:  no mommy posts; no recipe posts; no clever tips and helpful hints.  Since I’ve already violated the first two,  let’s just go ahead and throw out that third restriction as well!

For the first time in my life, I  just completed a two-day trek across several states, moving my family and most of our worldly possessions several hundred miles.  I know this hardly makes me an expert, but I would like to offer three helpful suggestions. 

1.  Get a good pair of walkie-talkies.  This is an absolute necessity if your family is traveling in more than one vehicle. 

This is something like what my husband drove:

Approximate acceleration rate and maneuverability of a sleepy tortoise.

This is something like what I drove:

Approximate acceleration rate and maneuverability of a frisky Clydesdale. I led. I also had the sole GPS unit.

 

This is what my husband is used to driving each day:

Approximate acceleration rate and maneuverability of a cheetah.

Walkie-talkies are particularly important if, hypothetically speaking, the frisky clydesdayle gallops onto the highway and leaves the sleepy tortoise stranded at a red light.  Do your marriage a favor and get some walkie-talkies.

2.  Listen to your kids.  When your almost-three-year-old requests a bathroom stop, don’t tell them, “hold on, sweet-pea, it’s just thirty more miles to Memphis.”  Even if they have proven to possess an iron-clad bladder in the past.  Find a rest-stop.  Pull over to the side of the freeway. Hand them an empty water bottle.  But, please, listen to your kids.  

3.  Pack more than two outfits per person for a two-day trip.  (Please see tip number 2.) 

There you have it!  Just remember these three things and you too can successfully move your entire family from one side of the country to the other!

~K

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Shadow Puppets Are So “Last Year”

Besides, I’ve never been able to do them.  (I can pull off a mean pair of shadow scissors, but that’s about it. )

 

 

But this is serious fun!  Put yourself between the setting sun and a flat vertical surface and ta-da! 

 

 

 The kids love it! 

 

 

This is my one and only pregnancy profile shot.  Who knew a six o’clock shadow could be so slenderizing?

 

~K

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Favorite Things

 

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