Until last week, I had ridiculously little time one on one with my sweet, fat, happy baby Whit (aka Cookie.) He’s three years younger than John (aka Precious Cutie Pie, aka PCP) and spent the first two and three-quarter years of his precious life being carted around to the PCP’s events, activities, parties and play… Read More
Well, the much anticipated first day of Kindergarten went off without a hitch! As soon as the alarm buzzed, I scooted down the hall to the PCP’s room, turned on the light and whispered for him to start waking up. Not two seconds later he’s bounding down the hall and excitedly proclaiming “I didn’t sleep… Read More
Well, it’s Kindergarten Eve around these parts. All at the request of the PCP on his last day of summer vacation, we had cinnamon toast for breakfast, went to the pool, harvested a load of veggies from our garden, played games and made pies in a jar (a tragic fail but the last thing on… Read More
We spent the last 25 days on an alphabet inspired countdown to Kindergarten. Here’s how we wrapped-up the countdown: fly paper airplanes pick up shells at the beach catch lightening bugs decorate cookiesexplore the creek marsh go fishing lie in the grass and look at stars play hop scotch Mimi and John tackled this one out on the driveway last week! make and… Read More
Earlier this week I spent an evening printing, cutting and having a smashing good time packaging up a hand full of treats for our kindergarten friends, new kindergarten teacher and, while I was at it, for the PCP’s lunch box on the first day of school. (All of this while catching up on Pretty Little… Read More
Meet the PCP, purveyor of the finest Country Time lemonade and sweet treats this end of Georgia… After months and months and months of begging, pleading, wheeling and dealing, we finally set up shop for our first ever lemonade stand. We were even able to rouse Honey out of bed early this morning to set… Read More
Our neighborhood has a revered tradition of gathering up all of the rising Kindergarteners for an afternoon of ice cream, playing and socializing. There were a few familiar faces in the group and even more that we met for the first time. Without further ado, I introduce to you the Class of 2024 (the mere… Read More