Story. Deklen's First day of Preschool.

Monday...his first day of school...including Kindergarden, only 17 more years to go.  It was sad for me, knowing he's starting down the path to adulthood.  That first day of school represents a loss of innocence, moving from "my baby" to "my boy".  When he returned home that day, his first words were "Mami, I thought about you guys today."  Awwwww....

Craft. Spider Craft.

"Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint." ~Joseph W. Krutch

So every year we have a Pumpkin Carving party - this year will be our 13th year!  So that would mean I was how old when we started?!  Ok...nevermind that...  So every year we try to come up with cute take-home treats for our fellow carvers.  I was surfing the other day and found this fabulous idea!!  So here it is - this years take-home treat!!  Too cute right?

Craft. Owl craft.

So we took a trip to our local library a few weekends ago and they offered this cute craft to the kids.  All you need are five things that you may already have:

1. empty toilet paper roll
2. googly eyes
3. brown markers
4. brown construction paper
5. glue stick

 My four year old just needed a little bit of help with the glue stick but he really enjoyed the finished owl.  He now sits proudly on top of our toaster oven :-)