Busy Week!

We've had a very busy week here in Dollymamaville. My daughter had her 10th birthday party last week. We had 10 girls here and it was a very girly good time. We had an egg hunt (eggs contained tiny bottles of nail polish, hair accessories, and candy), played some games, and enjoyed our zip line.

Rather than a cake, my daughter had her favorite treat: Peanut Butter Pie! Yum!

We celebrated Izzy Man's 6th birthday the following day.

For a fun birthday activity we made Floam from a kit. My mom bought it for the kids for Christmas and we finally got around to using it. Floam has tiny styrofoam beads in it, which were soon flying around our house. The Floam-making was a little bit crazy, but determination prevailed and we got the job done. Once completed I could only wonder what on earth the purpose of floam is. I still haven't figured it out. But we had fun making it! (now we have 4 bags of floam in our fridge...)

Doodles with his floam.

To celebrate my daughter's 10th birthday we went on a little mother-daughter getaway to a hotel. We had a really nice suite, and we spent our time eating out, swimming in the hotel pool, shopping, and enjoying being together. Here she is hanging out in our room.

Our hotel featured really wonderful, cozy bedding that we loved!

We even had a jacuzzi!

We learned how to make beaded jewelry while we were there. This bead design board is really helpful for laying out the necklace designs and sorting the various beads.


Now it's Spring Break all week. We have exciting plans such as Washing All The Bedding So That They Are Spring-Time Fresh! and Cleaning The House Because The Grandparents Are Coming To Visit Next Week! In order to actually try to be a fun mother I am also taking the kids to a nearby cemetery where there is a pond so that we can ride bikes and see the ducks and geese and feed them our bread scraps that have been taking up space in my freezer.

(Hey-you KNOW I'm a fun mother when I take my kids to play at a CEMETERY! My oldest won't even go--he's totally creeped out by the place. I actually love it there. It's a lovely cemetery with a lot of history. There are quite a lot of graves from the 1800s. I think it's really interesting to see the dates and things that people had written on the headstones and even the headstone designs that were popular at different times in history.)