CraftyMommy

How many countries can you name in 5 minutes?

Planning for Chloe’s fifth in a couple of weeks is in full swing - two parties: one with school friends, one with family and she’s asked for roller skates. 
This is just me playing around.  Can’t quite figure out how I want her birthday photocard to look like, and nothing is really turning out quite right.  I [...]

Last night we were discussing something at the dinner table, I don’t recall what, when out of the blue my daughter proudly asks, “do you know how Martin Luther King died?”
We love it when she shows off, of course, so we took the bait and asked how he died.  Imagine my surprise when she very [...]

I heart faces theme this week is Joy.  My nephew and also my daughter’s best friend:

I don’t know about you, but holidays always wipe me out.  There’s all this preparation, and then the big day arrives and it’s fun but it’s also non-stop from morning until late at night.  Here’s a little taste:

{”Baby, did you stomp on the bad stuff?“  *checks under both her shoes*  “I don’t know mommy, I [...]

No time to blog.  I’m cleaning up for Tet, getting money ready for Tet, need to go buy shoes and food for Tet - there’s a theme somewhere in there.  If you’re at all interested, here’s what I wrote last year about what we do for the New Year:
The Days Before New Year
The Days of [...]

Is it tomorrow yet?  I’m so excited.  Big party at my house.  My friends and I have work so I’m Tivo’ing everything for that night.  We’ll be munching on Hawaiian food for supper while we watch.  And I have some plans for nifty themed cupcakes that Chloe will help decorate. Okay, so this is the [...]

I haven’t really been posting a bunch of pictures of Chloe lately.  It’s not for lack of trying, I assure you.  It’s just that we seem to be knee-deep in the ick years.  The ick years, where everything out of my mouth starts with “ew” or “ick” or “no, seriously, that’s gross” whenever my daughter has a conversation with [...]

Kerryanne mentioned this awesome blog called Iheartfaces.  I thought it would be fun and interesting.  Week 1 is Anything Goes.  My entry is a picture of my daughter after a long night of trick-or-treating (which should explain the nose and whiskers).

 
This project has been on my to-do list for a long time now.