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Christmas Countdown: Activities!
I don’t mean to be one of those annoying Pinterest-y mothers talking about the perfect Christmas activities, but we are having a lot of fun with our countdown calendar.
The boys especially love the activities related to food, such as drinking eggnog, making gingerbread houses, and making hot chocolate. They are excited when we get home from school and select an activity.
Here’s our full list of things we choose from:
- Drink eggnog
- Drink hot chocolate
- Visit the Zilker Tree
- Visit 37th Street lights
- Visit Christmas house at 1912 Crystal Shores
- Go ice-skating
- Attend the Cherrywood Art Festival
- Make bagged lunches and deliver them to homeless people on the street
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A New Phase in Parenting: Travel Booster Seats
Our family is entering a new phase in our parenting: Instead of lugging our giant carseats around the airport (using our double stroller) and needing to stop and check them at the counter, we are now making the switch to using these inflatable booster seats for traveling. These things deflate and fit into a tiny bag that can be packed in the boys’ carry-on luggage.We are now a family with just carry-on luggage. What?!?Don’t get me wrong: I am all-too-aware of how fast our boys are going to grow up and how painful it’s going to be when they leave the house. I try to savor every… Read More -
How to Stop Siblings from Fighting
Life just keeps getting better and better as our boys get older (I am definitely not an infant/toddler person).During our last trip as an immediate family (during Spring Break to Flagstaff) before our Fall Break trip to Los Angeles, I had to start reading Siblings Without Rivalry because the bickering was so bad. Since that time, we have been working hard to teach our children not to fight with each other. Instead, we try to teach them to use their words to find solutions with each other. And it has helped so much!We flat out told them, “If you can’t learn to stop fighting with each other, we… Read More
