Throwback Thursday: The Four-Year-Old’s Vintage White Leather Cowboy Boots
When The Nine-Year-Old was a mere Four-Year-Old, she walked into an antique shop in Cape Cod one rainy afternoon and discovered a just-her-size pair of vintage white…
(almost) Wordless Wednesday: Grandpa’s giant box
Remember that time Grandpa gave Grandma a mysterious something in a box that was almost as large as The (then) Six-Year-Old? Well, this past Christmas Grandma…
The Six-Year-Old Watches Cartoons – “Superman Episode 3: The Arctic Giant” (1942) #ThrowbackThursday
Every Sunday afternoon (at least, every Sunday that we can manage it), our family clusters on the couch with a bowl of fresh-popped popcorn and proceeds to haggle over our Sunday Afternoon Movie. This week, Daddyo put together a montage of 1940s Superman cartoons. Watching the original Superman cartoons with The Six-Year-Old was much more fun than even my husband expected. My daughter comments freely on what she sees, and with Superman, what she saw was a lot of stuff people got wrong about dinosaurs.
Flashback Funny: The Six-Year-Old plays checkers
The Six-Year-Old, flush with victory after trouncing Mommyo in a game of checkers: “This Checkers game is fun. But Checkers with Cookies would be even better.” My snickerdoodles…
Wordless Wednesday: What do dragons talk about at breakfast?
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Look what the 9YO left on my computer this time
I wonder which book inspired this? Also, Admiral Canelo is going to have to learn not to leave his Top Secret CAT-FACE files open on a shared…
My carefree no-fuss Thanksgiving
In a normal year, hosting Thanksgiving takes about three weeks. This year, for various reasons, I just wasn’t feeling up to it. So about a month ago, I announced to all concerned that I wouldn’t be cooking a turkey with all the trimmings this year. Oh my goodness, you’d have thought I’d canceled Christmas.
Wordless Wednesday: Fun with Jane
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Dinner at Caterpickles
Mommyo, anxiously: “Oh dear, I think these green beans may be just a tad overdone. What do you think, The (then) Eight-Year-Old?” The (then) Eight-Year-Old, using…
Never go to war with a cat
The (then) Eight-Year-Old, interrupted in a key tactical mission with Snoopy, the World War I Flying Ace: “Canelo! What are you doing in the runway? I…
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