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Happy 11th Birthday, Key Lime Pie!

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My spunky Key Lime Pie is 11! She loves Yu-gi-oh and horses and has turned into a great reader. She loves playing sports with the high-school boys at our home school co-op and board games with us all. She gives me a hug and tells me she loves me every night and still loves to be tickled and snuggled. Her generous heart and lively energy add lots of fun to our family.

She got new earbuds and “The Wild Robot” by Robert Brown, as well as 2 unique sibling designed Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and a poster of herself as Yu-Gi-Oh (drawn by Blueberry Pie).

For her birthday we decorated Haunted Houses and Halloween Cookies with Aunt Amanda.

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Shakespeare Project

13 May

This morning I made a double batch of play dough to keep the twins busy.

Then I made a double batch of royal icing for Key Lime Pie’s gingerbread model of Shakespeare’s globe theater.

Now I’m making lemon curd to use up the egg yolks left over from making the icing.

What I WISH I were making is lunch!

Side note: it is now impossible to detect that I spent ALL day Saturday decluttering and deep cleaning the kitchen. 😅

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A craft stash is for

5 Oct

When you decide at noon that the girls coming to your 10-year-old’s birthday party at 4pm that day need a party favor to take home.

Then you get out the piece of blue fleece left over from making a pillow for cousin Emily last year,

the ribbon from a box of lace that a sweet granny at church gave you when she decided to reduce her stash,

the fiber fill stuffing your friend gave you when it was left over from reupholstering a chair,

googley-eyes left over from a preschool project,

And E6000 glue because glue.

Enlist the help of your minions, and less than 2 hours later, you have blue cuteness.

Just enough time to clean-up the house…or catch a nap before eight 10-year-olds descend upon you en masse.

Tags: #handmade #partyfavors

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Categories Key Lime Pie, Mothering Win, sewing, Softies

Homeschool Moms need Summer Vacation, Too

25 May

This morning Banana Cream Pie (age 4) asked me, “Is today my first day of homeschool?”

No child. Momma needs summer vacation.

Key Lime Pie read “George Washington’s Breakfast” by Jean Fritz this year, and I promised her that we would eat the same breakfast when she finished the book.

This morning I finally made good on my promise: cornmeal griddle cakes and (herbal) tea.

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Categories Banana Cream Pie, Homeschool, Key Lime Pie

Bell Ringers

26 May

Key Lime Pie and her friends got to ring the bell today, marking their graduation from 2nd grade to 3rd Grade. Brookie, Eleas, Lydia, Julia and Zoey is officially a 4th grader! Congratulations girls for all of your hard work! Now we are moving on up! You are the sweetest girls and I love all of you! I am so thankful that you are such good friends!

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Happy Eighth Birthday, Key Lime Pie

4 Oct

Charlotte, KLP, and Liddia

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Key Lime Pie is 7

4 Oct

Key Limer Pie is seven! Where has the time gone?
Her favorite song is “Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree.” She also loves “Everything is Awesome” from the Lego Movie.

Her favorite foods are Raman Noodles and Macaroni & Cheese (from the store. None of the yucky homemade from scratch stuff.)

Her favorite color is baby blue.

Her favorite things to do are play Pokemon outside and board games like Dixit! and Blokus and card games like Love Letter and Munchkin.

For her birthday she got a whole bag of 20 something tiny Pokemon figurines to have battles with. Also she got her very own bag of gummy bears.

She requested cinnamon rolls (the delicious homemade kind) for her birthday dessert.

Tags: #30DRL

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Key Lime Pie is Six

5 Oct

Key Lime Pie turned 6. She went to Kindergarten this fall. After school started, I was feeling pretty weird. It took me awhile, but I finally realized that weird feeling was loneliness. She has been my buddy for 5 1/2 years and now she isn’t home to talk to me or beg me to play Uno and Monopoly and Parcheesee. She loves Kindergarten and her teacher, and she loves to have me check Class Dojo every day to see all the good things she did at school.