I love the month of December.  We have so many fun traditions that we all look forward to every year.  New Christmas music, visits to the tree farm, our annual holiday party and spending time with our families.  That is actually the BEST part! This year we had ‘Christmas DDD’ first with Dean and Wanda […]

  I won’t go into details for fear of embarrassing dear daughter number two, but getting ears pierced in our house is a rite of passage.  A celebration, if you will.  A welcome into the ‘big girls’ club. I wasn’t sure she would even do it.  This is the kid who is deathly afraid of […]

The Christmas tree is the perfect symbol of the holiday.  Why do we celebrate by hanging baubles on dead wood?  I have no idea but we just go with it! I really don’t enjoy decorating our big tree.  I never have, but I do enjoy looking at it so I am very thankful that my […]

This is the year of the pom pom.  What?  You didn’t know that?  Okay, maybe it’s just me…and Pinterest. I decided to use them in my holiday decorating so I needed a ton of sizes and colors.  It was a fun activity for me because it brought back all sorts of memories of my grandmother. […]

Christmas vacation started a week early here.  Today we woke up to a blanket of snow.  Since folks from the Northwest are not known for their skillful driving in the snow, school was quickly cancelled.  That was met with happiness from Kate, disappointment from Ellie (she was looking forward to the all school Winter Olympics) […]

Fourth grade is the year that kids start learning about money and budgets and saving at our school. Throughout the year they work at jobs to earn Grizzly Bucks.  Jobs like, banker or homework checker, etc.  In addition to earning money through conventional jobs, they also create products or services to sell and then parents […]