Over the weekend the kids and I went crazy with glitter. I forget how much fun it is to play with glitter until I do it, and then I’m looking for anything in the house that needs a little “sprucing up”. Oh dear. Anyway, we crafted like crazy, and today I’m here to show you how to make glitter pumpkins. Fun, right? Supplies: Elmer’s Glue or other inexpensive school glue paintbrushes + shaped sponges glitter in all different shapes and…
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Fifteen years ago when Viktor and I were just dating, he had shoulder surgery. He recovered quickly because, well, he was a teenager. {side-note: I was a child bride} Over the passing years that shoulder has fallen apart, but his *good* shoulder has become a nightmare. When we went surfing last Fall, poor Viktor just paddled out in the water to encourage me. He can’t hold his arms above his waist, so one of his favorite pastimes, surfing, is completely…
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Have you ever melted broken crayons? My mom used to let us dump out our huge #10 can full of broken odds + ends to melt on the griddle about once a year, and let me tell you it’s one of the highlights of my childhood. There’s something magical about the smell of melting wax. Well, not really. It doesn’t smell amazing, but it’s so much fun to do! And if you want, you can end up with a new…
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Today’s post is a serious one, about remembering Calvin. Three years ago on Saturday I received a horrible phone call from my dear friend Donna telling me her oldest son Calvin had been killed in a car accident. The whole thing was a nightmare, and I still don’t know how Donna walks around breathing every day. Calvin was an adorable, handsome, sweet, gifted 14-year-old who died too soon. Calvin’s accident was just that; something tragic, an avoidable accident. Calvin hated…
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Making it alive through two pregnancies is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. Today Im sharing an essay about the scariest year of my life for ABC News and the UN Foundations Million Moms Challenge. And all of a sudden, in the midst of the bustling holidays, the night before the first day of my final semester of college, I took a pregnancy test. And it was positive. Go to Million Moms Challenge to read my essay, and…
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We’re a frisky family. Which basically means I’m married to a man who can’t hold still. It’s not a bad thing, most of the time, because it means that even when I feel like curling up in a ball and wishing it all away, I get dragged out of the house with the family to do something healthy and productive. I’ve told you more times than I can count how hard it is for me to leave Summer behind. I…
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Last week I traveled to Los Angeles to spend time with Jennifer Garner. Again. I really love that Jennifer but the real reason I love these events is getting to bring awareness to each seasonal Save the Children campaign. Frigidaire + Save the Children team up, and everyone wins. The highlight of this event was watching renowned Los Angeles chef Suzanne Goin cook Thanksgiving recipes while I asked her amateur questions like, “How long should the butter cook before you…
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This is the only picture I can find of my grandmother. And if she knew I was posting this photo of her when she was within months of her death, she’d kill me. She really would. She thought she looked like a dried out old monkey. Literally. In fact she tried to slip a photo of a monkey to serve as her obituary photo, but my aunts and uncles intercepted it and used a real photo of her instead. It’s…
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My kids both start school a week from today. Big kid style. Precocious has been in school for years and years now, but Charming is about to enter first grade, which means he’s going to school with the big kids all day long. I’ve been really excited for this milestone forever, but now that it’s only a week away, I have to catch the sob in my chest every time I look at my baby boy. We’ve had the summer…
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