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28 Friday Jun 2013

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backyard bees, DIY teepee tent, home, Ikea fabric teepee, Inspiration, Instagram, kids birthday party, life with kids, summer birthday party, summer break

Happy Almost Weekend!

I can hardly believe that the Forth of July is coming next week. It was hot hot hot here, so we did a lot of running through sprinklers in the backyard, popsicle-making and watermelon-eating. Josie is happy to have her big sister home from school and we are getting excited about the upcoming summer birthdays.

Here are some of our Instagrams from the last couple of weeks:

*Party Prep for Cousin Clementine

*Hide and Seek

*Josie Stealing Honey from the Ants

*Dinner (All I want to eat is salad in this weather)

*Tent in the Back Yard

*Josie, Peeling Off Stickers from Ada’s Book

*Busy Bees

*Sister Lunch

Family Road Trip: Surviving the Drive

17 Monday Jun 2013

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car activities for kids, car knitting, family road trip, Instagram, life with kids, road trip, road trip with kids, travel activities for kids, travel packages, Travel with kids

We were on the road for a total of nine days for a recent road trip. In order to make it through all of the driving with two little kids, we needed a plan. I made a trip to the dollar store and stocked up on car activities. We wrapped up things like stickers, bouncy balls and crayons in brown paper and each day the girls got to open one of the packages. They unwrapped right before the longest part of the drive for each day, and each girl had her own backpack to keep activities organized. The packages got us through some long stretches on the road, and let me get on with my knitting and Instagraming in the front seat.

Some of the packages:

*Wikki Stix and Bouncy Balls Day

*Sticker Dolls Day

*Beaded Necklace Day

*Sticker Day

*Activity Book Day

*Pipe Cleaner Doll Day

Inspiration

17 Friday May 2013

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DIY paper kite, Dough Brooklyn, home, Inspiration, Instagram, Jadite, life with kids, Moon River Chattel, Mother's Day flowers, Perfect Mother's Day gifts

Instagrams from our week:

*Robin Shells in the Back Yard

*Back Yard Kites

*Perfect Mother’s Day Breakfast: Dough Doughnuts, Cut Flowers (which Ada and Chris wake up early and sneak out of the house for and then let me arrange myself), and The Times (which I am still not done reading but will finish before the end of the week)

*Ada’s Class Turtle at the Art Show

*Wisteria from the Back Yard

*Mother’s Day Flowers

*Jadite at Moon River Chattel (which I resisted)

*Strange White Pigeon on the Sidewalk

*Bunk Beds! (Finally arrived after several delivery attempts and are now in the middle of the room, waiting for us to move the bookshelf. And we got them way on sale)

Have a great weekend!!

Inspiration

03 Friday May 2013

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Cherry Blossom Festival, cherry blossoms, home, housekeeping, Inspiration, Instagram, life with kids, Manly Narcissus, White Flower Farm

Happy Friday Everyone!
Here are some Instagrams from our week:

*Manly Narcissus from Our Garden

*Cherry Blossoms from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

*Back Yard

*Josie, Asleep on Her Books

*Back on the Ground at JFK

*The Kids, Watching Fish at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Have a wonderful weekend!

Inspiration

19 Friday Apr 2013

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backyard kid space, color, DIY Apple Surprise Ball, home, Inspiration, Instagram, life with kids, matryoshka dolls, nesting doll toys, Wikki Stix

It has been a few weeks since I posted our Instagrams. We have had two weeks full of house projects, kindergarten tours and lawn preparations. I am quite happy it is friday and we are all looking forward to a slow and unscheduled weekend. Here are some Instagrams from the last few weeks: