Trip to Newport

Last week the kids had a couple of days off school, so we went on a quick road trip to Newport, Rhode Island. For Michael and the older kids, it was their first trip back since we moved almost six years ago.

It was not a good picture weekend, but I thought I'd post a few anyway.

Hand over the Worst Mom in the World Award

I'll be holding onto it for a while.

Now that we have wall space (hallelujah!), we decided it was about time to unpack the framed pictures that have been in storage since we moved to Vermont six years ago next month.

We had two boxes of framed prints and one box that held a large piece of original art given us by Michael's parents. As I opened the box, I was surprised to find, cushioning the artwork, a pillow and . . . IM's star blankie.

You know, the one that was a match of NB's star blankie? The one we thought we had left in a hotel? The one we scolded her for leaving behind?

Yeah, that one.

I have weird kids

Maybe I should make this a running series of posts.

Today's entry is courtesy of LW.

Last night he insisted we play "ghost firefighter spiders" before dinner. Yes, you read that right. Ghost is because it's almost Halloween. Firefighter comes from the fire safety assembly at school last week. I don't know why he decided on spiders.

At the moment, he is pretending his Duplo tractor is a baby ant. We must pet the truck and say how cute the baby ant is.