Show and Tell...Okay I had to show off our newest wall decor. I brought this fabric home intending to make some folding chair covers but I fell in love with it and had to make it into something more permanent I could see all the time. I stretched it over some stretcher bar squares I had from IKEA and turned it into wall art. For those of you who've seen our sparsely decorated house you know this is a big step for me. I love the way it turned out.
What Works for us...I got a picture this weekend of the kids doing their weekly floor washing chore. Doug started them washing the floor on Saturday's when Luke was born and it is one consistent chore has actually stuck. It took a little training to get them to be independent but I must say they do an excellent job.
Spontaneous creativity...I love when my children are spontaneously creative. Saturday evening Mer asked if we had a Halloween tablecloth. It just so happened that we do (thank's mom). She took it and told me she was going to have a party. I'm thinking it is a little early for Halloween deco. Anyway I came out of my room a little while later to a fully decorated table set for a Halloween feast. She and Max were mixing up a concoction of Monster's blood to drink (Green water). They had taken paper plates and drawn pumpkin faces on all of them and wrote BOO! on the napkins. They had a bowl of eyeballs (grapes) and Dead baby fish (goldfish crackers) ready to go. I helped them with a few more things like quesadillas in Halloween cookie cutter shapes and salad and we turned it into dinner. Doug made a few comments about how gross and disgusting everything was and Mer was a little hurt until she realized he was making ghoulish humored comments. The kids loved it.
What Works for us...I got a picture this weekend of the kids doing their weekly floor washing chore. Doug started them washing the floor on Saturday's when Luke was born and it is one consistent chore has actually stuck. It took a little training to get them to be independent but I must say they do an excellent job.
Spontaneous creativity...I love when my children are spontaneously creative. Saturday evening Mer asked if we had a Halloween tablecloth. It just so happened that we do (thank's mom). She took it and told me she was going to have a party. I'm thinking it is a little early for Halloween deco. Anyway I came out of my room a little while later to a fully decorated table set for a Halloween feast. She and Max were mixing up a concoction of Monster's blood to drink (Green water). They had taken paper plates and drawn pumpkin faces on all of them and wrote BOO! on the napkins. They had a bowl of eyeballs (grapes) and Dead baby fish (goldfish crackers) ready to go. I helped them with a few more things like quesadillas in Halloween cookie cutter shapes and salad and we turned it into dinner. Doug made a few comments about how gross and disgusting everything was and Mer was a little hurt until she realized he was making ghoulish humored comments. The kids loved it.
3 comments:
i love your new decor! It goes good with your red loveseat. ....and its good to see the kids washing. I felt like a slave driver with mine. Kendall and now Brady have always been in charge of the toilets and tubs, but maybe now i will add in floors in the bathrooms. Thats a good one to delegate to them.
Happy belated Birthday to Doug.
I love the wall art! Very creative of you, and a simple idea done well. I can see where your kids get their creativity from. Love the Halloween Feast!! Oh, and Grace wants to know if Mer and Max sing "It's a Hard Knock's Life" while they work??
Very impressive Mer and Max! We wish we could come to your cool party!
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