As the snow days come to a close (we DO actually have to work tomorrow, albeit 2 hours later than usually - yay), I have reflected on all the fun we have had. Snow days with a 5 year old around are a lot different than the snow days I have had in the past! :-) I obviously spent a lot of my time off work with Chris and Lily and we had so much fun! We did all kinds of things... read a lot, played a lot, napped a lot. There were a few things, however, that brought back childhood memories and I wanted to see if any of you share some of these memories as well!
One was fresh baked bread! I cooked a lot and tried some new recipes over the weekend. One thing I did was bake from scratch, sour dough bread! Mom used to make this when we were kids and ON MY GOSH it's good! She got the starter going over Christmas and this weekend was my first successful attempt at actually making the bread. :-) It just reminded me of when I was a child and warmed my heart. I am so thankful for the amazing childhood that my parents provided for me! Thankful that I had a dad who worked hard to provide so that I could have a mom that was home with us to do things like make homemade fresh bread! Mmmm.
Another thing we did this weekend was make pot holders! Did any of you have one of these looms? lol. I know I had one! I have made many a pot holder out what appears to me to be loops of brightly colored pantyhose! Ha! Lily and I got this out over the weekend! She made Chris and I pot holders, and before she went back to her mom's we made one for her to take back with her! It was so much fun!
And we watch lots of Looney Tunes! I grew up on these! We never watched TV hardly, that I remember! I remember doing A LOT of playing and not much time sitting still in front of a tv... but we did LOVE bugs bunny! :-) Lily is enjoying discovering this characters from the past and Chris and I are enjoying seeing our favorites from growing up!
And do you remember these? Fuse beads!?! You put them on the peg board and iron them! I used to LOVE these things!!! We broke these out over the weekend and made all kinds brightly colored shapes! I am going to get some magnets to put on the back so she can put them on her white board or her fridge! We had so much fun! I even made one for myself!!!!
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If I lived a little closer I would have LOVED making pot holders and fuse beads magnets! SO MUCH FUN!!!
We built a lot of forts when I was a little girl and we always broke out the Lite Bright when the weather was bad.
I had forgotten the fuse beads! I remember leaving the beads in a pile on the hotel floor when went to sea world, and when we came back there were a million ants in them and I got bit on my hand trying to clean them up!
Looks like you had fun! I'm glad you got a nice long snow break! and had people to enjoy it with!
BTW - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Did I get to be first to say it? I'm a day early, but I wanted to say it first!
I used to make those pot holders all the time!!! The bread looks delicious! I love how you're always cooking up something good!!!
Why did I not have any of these things????
I did have the Lite Brite...and I threw Jason around as a toy, too. Which could explain a lot.
Seeing that loom & loop makes me feel REALLY old! LOL - so fun though! And happy REALLY belated bday!!!
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