Making, celebrating and enjoying the seasons
This post started out as my tips on how to purge your kids school work and neatly store it in a labelled binder. It quickly turned into “How to gush and bawl all over kindergarten artwork and almost save all of it.”
So to salvage some sort of post I will show you how to stuff a mountain of kids art into a regular 2 inch binder and save everything for posterity.
Right now I would say we are mid way through getting our house updated and decorated to suit our family. It’s been a long process and a much slower process then we anticipated. I love when we do a small project that makes a big difference because it holds me over a few more weeks before I am chomping at the bit to get another home update crossed off our list.
If you have ever taken a child, pretty much anywhere, you have heard “I’m booooored”, “Is it time to go home yet?” or the ever popular, “This is so boring!” The latter is favoured by my 4 year old. We are still new to this camping as a family thing, but I have a few years of entertaining bored kids under my belt and what my kids love, is a job. A simple to do list with simple instructions that we can work on together.
Father’s Day is almost upon us and I still have no idea what to get for the man of the house. I still have some time and I am sure the kids and I will cook up something. When we do, we are planning to attach this little gift tag to it to remind him that we love him, appreciate him and we are so happy we get to share life as a family together.
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I have been in the world of blogging now for a grand total of 4 months! A flash in the pan by all accounts. I have learned a lot, and I have so much more to learn and master. It feels almost overwhelming at times. (Hello SEO settings… looking at you!)
I am also having so much fun!
Canada Day is fast approaching and this year is a big one! Canada will be 150 years old. We are so proud to be Canadian and we love to really make a big deal of Canada Day with our kids. We hope they grow up proud of our beautiful country and appreciate and respect all of the freedoms and privileges that comes along with living in one of the best countries in the world. Canadians have so much to be thankful for.
I have some MAJOR respect for teachers. A class full of 4 year olds is not for the faint of heart. Penny is about to finish Junior Kindergarten and seeing how much she has grown personally and how much she has learned this year is a true testament to the dedication and hard work of her teachers. We could not be more grateful for the people who dedicate their lives to the education and personal growth of young people.
Earlier this week we did a Disney for Dinner-Hercules night where we dined on some chicken souvlaki and I made a quick greek quinoa salad. I went into it with no plan but it ended up being delicious and we have made it again since. I thought with the hot summer days coming, this would be a nice cold salad recipe to share for BBQ season. It also holds up nice in the fridge so you can make a lot and eat it over a couple of days.
This month for our Disney for Dinner we chose Hercules. I had grand plans to set a themed table and make a dessert from scratch but with all of the projects we have going on around the house and school a quick barbecue and salad was all that came together. You win some, you lose some!
It is not lost on that that my blog pictures are less than “bloggable”! They tend to be a touch blurry, weird and inconsistent colours and lots of reflection. To my defence, I take most of my craft photos late at night after the kids have gone to bed and I have caught up on some cleaning.