Best Easter eggs

This calendar week nosotros painted our Easter eggs.  I was trying to figure out the best means to proceed lilliputian fingers from getting also messy, as well as these bamboo skewers proved to hold upwards the perfect solution.

Hope y'all all had a prissy Easter weekend!

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Best Easter eggs

This calendar week nosotros painted our Easter eggs.  I was trying to figure out the best means to proceed lilliputian fingers from getting also messy, as well as these bamboo skewers proved to hold upwards the perfect solution.

Hope y'all all had a prissy Easter weekend!

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Best Easter eggs

This calendar week nosotros painted our Easter eggs.  I was trying to figure out the best means to proceed lilliputian fingers from getting also messy, as well as these bamboo skewers proved to hold upwards the perfect solution.

Hope y'all all had a prissy Easter weekend!

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Best Easter baskets in addition to egg hunts

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 distich weeks ago, a friend referred me to this cloth Easter Basket Tutorial yesteryear Sew Lux Fabric.  I idea it would last fun to convey baskets the kids could role yr afterward year, as well as hence I got to work.  Here's my version of them.  They don't expect anything similar the ones inwards the tutorial.  I didn't convey lining, batting, or interfacing, exactly I did convey vinyl as well as bias tape.  So I went alongside what I had.  (Try non to expect equally good closely at/judge my sewing... sometimes yous convey to become for quantity over quality.)

I used white t-shirt transfer paper to position the names on the fabric.

Sabbatum it's supposed to last 52 as well as partly sunny.  52 degrees!!  The kids haven't been wearing jackets when it hits 40, as well as hence 52 mightiness telephone phone for shorts.  Definitely outdoor Easter egg hunt weather.  And this yr we're going to endeavour something a piffling fleck different.  Each of the kids volition last assigned 1 coloring of egg that he tin laissez passer on notice find.  That agency nosotros tin laissez passer on notice enshroud each coloring inwards age-appropriate locations, as well as when they're done finding their ain eggs they tin laissez passer on notice help each other.  Hopefully doing it this agency volition notwithstanding last fun exactly a piffling less competitive.  We'll see.

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Best Easter baskets in addition to egg hunts

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 distich weeks ago, a friend referred me to this cloth Easter Basket Tutorial yesteryear Sew Lux Fabric.  I idea it would last fun to convey baskets the kids could role yr afterward year, as well as hence I got to work.  Here's my version of them.  They don't expect anything similar the ones inwards the tutorial.  I didn't convey lining, batting, or interfacing, exactly I did convey vinyl as well as bias tape.  So I went alongside what I had.  (Try non to expect equally good closely at/judge my sewing... sometimes yous convey to become for quantity over quality.)

I used white t-shirt transfer paper to position the names on the fabric.

Sabbatum it's supposed to last 52 as well as partly sunny.  52 degrees!!  The kids haven't been wearing jackets when it hits 40, as well as hence 52 mightiness telephone phone for shorts.  Definitely outdoor Easter egg hunt weather.  And this yr we're going to endeavour something a piffling fleck different.  Each of the kids volition last assigned 1 coloring of egg that he tin laissez passer on notice find.  That agency nosotros tin laissez passer on notice enshroud each coloring inwards age-appropriate locations, as well as when they're done finding their ain eggs they tin laissez passer on notice help each other.  Hopefully doing it this agency volition notwithstanding last fun exactly a piffling less competitive.  We'll see.

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Best Easter baskets in addition to egg hunts

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 distich weeks ago, a friend referred me to this cloth Easter Basket Tutorial yesteryear Sew Lux Fabric.  I idea it would last fun to convey baskets the kids could role yr afterward year, as well as hence I got to work.  Here's my version of them.  They don't expect anything similar the ones inwards the tutorial.  I didn't convey lining, batting, or interfacing, exactly I did convey vinyl as well as bias tape.  So I went alongside what I had.  (Try non to expect equally good closely at/judge my sewing... sometimes yous convey to become for quantity over quality.)

I used white t-shirt transfer paper to position the names on the fabric.

Sabbatum it's supposed to last 52 as well as partly sunny.  52 degrees!!  The kids haven't been wearing jackets when it hits 40, as well as hence 52 mightiness telephone phone for shorts.  Definitely outdoor Easter egg hunt weather.  And this yr we're going to endeavour something a piffling fleck different.  Each of the kids volition last assigned 1 coloring of egg that he tin laissez passer on notice find.  That agency nosotros tin laissez passer on notice enshroud each coloring inwards age-appropriate locations, as well as when they're done finding their ain eggs they tin laissez passer on notice help each other.  Hopefully doing it this agency volition notwithstanding last fun exactly a piffling less competitive.  We'll see.

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Best From wheat to grass

The firstly solar daytime of Spring is apace approaching.  Normally I would survive to a greater extent than excited, but wintertime hither seems to survive dragging on as well as on.  No existent "spring" is on the horizon.  Temperatures hither are inward the 30's as well as below all week, but we're surviving.  We're planning on to a greater extent than sewing, crafts, as well as lazy afternoons!

At the showtime of March nosotros started our wheat grass inward hopes that it would survive create to larn for Easter.  9 days later, the blades were to a greater extent than than a yoke inches long!  

We used Delia's method for soil-less wheat grass.  It was a fleck high maintenance the firstly few days, having to rinse the wheat a few times a day.  But fun to watch.  This is the wheat on solar daytime 5, but after it came out of the jars.

And past times solar daytime 8, here's what nosotros had!  Beautiful long blades of greenish grass.

The roots of the grass had grown correct into the newspaper towels, therefore all I had to produce was cutting the rugs of grass into circles as well as house them inward our pots.  I institute these pots at Ikea for $1 each, therefore filled them each one-half agency amongst rocks.



You tin dismiss nonetheless encounter the wheat berries downwards past times the roots.



I idea the grass would expect proficient nether our Easter egg garland.  We come upwards up amongst a novel method to decorate eggs every twelvemonth therefore string them all together for display.  I'm nonetheless trying to create upwards one's hear what to produce this year...

So forthwith I convey something beautiful as well as greenish to expect at when I expect out the window!  Although nosotros won't encounter the existent materials for unopen to fourth dimension now.  Until then, this volition convey to do.

And I but institute out that my pictures that I linked from Flickr are non working amongst Pinterest.  Grrrr.  So I'm going to endeavour to charge them correct onto blogger as well as promise that that works.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

**Update: Unfortunately, most a calendar week after nosotros had this beautiful greenish grass, it all died from mold.  And I'm non quite certain how nosotros could convey avoided it.  So no greenish grass for Easter.  Although the procedure of growing the grass from wheat was fun to watch, adjacent twelvemonth nosotros mightiness but larn amongst plainly onetime grass seeds planted inward soil.

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Best From wheat to grass

The firstly solar daytime of Spring is apace approaching.  Normally I would survive to a greater extent than excited, but wintertime hither seems to survive dragging on as well as on.  No existent "spring" is on the horizon.  Temperatures hither are inward the 30's as well as below all week, but we're surviving.  We're planning on to a greater extent than sewing, crafts, as well as lazy afternoons!

At the showtime of March nosotros started our wheat grass inward hopes that it would survive create to larn for Easter.  9 days later, the blades were to a greater extent than than a yoke inches long!  

We used Delia's method for soil-less wheat grass.  It was a fleck high maintenance the firstly few days, having to rinse the wheat a few times a day.  But fun to watch.  This is the wheat on solar daytime 5, but after it came out of the jars.

And past times solar daytime 8, here's what nosotros had!  Beautiful long blades of greenish grass.

The roots of the grass had grown correct into the newspaper towels, therefore all I had to produce was cutting the rugs of grass into circles as well as house them inward our pots.  I institute these pots at Ikea for $1 each, therefore filled them each one-half agency amongst rocks.



You tin dismiss nonetheless encounter the wheat berries downwards past times the roots.



I idea the grass would expect proficient nether our Easter egg garland.  We come upwards up amongst a novel method to decorate eggs every twelvemonth therefore string them all together for display.  I'm nonetheless trying to create upwards one's hear what to produce this year...

So forthwith I convey something beautiful as well as greenish to expect at when I expect out the window!  Although nosotros won't encounter the existent materials for unopen to fourth dimension now.  Until then, this volition convey to do.

And I but institute out that my pictures that I linked from Flickr are non working amongst Pinterest.  Grrrr.  So I'm going to endeavour to charge them correct onto blogger as well as promise that that works.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

**Update: Unfortunately, most a calendar week after nosotros had this beautiful greenish grass, it all died from mold.  And I'm non quite certain how nosotros could convey avoided it.  So no greenish grass for Easter.  Although the procedure of growing the grass from wheat was fun to watch, adjacent twelvemonth nosotros mightiness but larn amongst plainly onetime grass seeds planted inward soil.

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Best From wheat to grass

The firstly solar daytime of Spring is apace approaching.  Normally I would survive to a greater extent than excited, but wintertime hither seems to survive dragging on as well as on.  No existent "spring" is on the horizon.  Temperatures hither are inward the 30's as well as below all week, but we're surviving.  We're planning on to a greater extent than sewing, crafts, as well as lazy afternoons!

At the showtime of March nosotros started our wheat grass inward hopes that it would survive create to larn for Easter.  9 days later, the blades were to a greater extent than than a yoke inches long!  

We used Delia's method for soil-less wheat grass.  It was a fleck high maintenance the firstly few days, having to rinse the wheat a few times a day.  But fun to watch.  This is the wheat on solar daytime 5, but after it came out of the jars.

And past times solar daytime 8, here's what nosotros had!  Beautiful long blades of greenish grass.

The roots of the grass had grown correct into the newspaper towels, therefore all I had to produce was cutting the rugs of grass into circles as well as house them inward our pots.  I institute these pots at Ikea for $1 each, therefore filled them each one-half agency amongst rocks.



You tin dismiss nonetheless encounter the wheat berries downwards past times the roots.



I idea the grass would expect proficient nether our Easter egg garland.  We come upwards up amongst a novel method to decorate eggs every twelvemonth therefore string them all together for display.  I'm nonetheless trying to create upwards one's hear what to produce this year...

So forthwith I convey something beautiful as well as greenish to expect at when I expect out the window!  Although nosotros won't encounter the existent materials for unopen to fourth dimension now.  Until then, this volition convey to do.

And I but institute out that my pictures that I linked from Flickr are non working amongst Pinterest.  Grrrr.  So I'm going to endeavour to charge them correct onto blogger as well as promise that that works.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

**Update: Unfortunately, most a calendar week after nosotros had this beautiful greenish grass, it all died from mold.  And I'm non quite certain how nosotros could convey avoided it.  So no greenish grass for Easter.  Although the procedure of growing the grass from wheat was fun to watch, adjacent twelvemonth nosotros mightiness but larn amongst plainly onetime grass seeds planted inward soil.

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Best Pumpkin sandwiches

Happy Halloween!  Here's what I made the kids for luncheon today, I stance I'd percentage the idea.  Pumpkin-shaped peanut butter as well as dear sandwiches.  I wishing I could run into John's appear upward when he opens his lunch, he's going to hold upward thus excited.  I used a cookie cutter to cutting the shapes out of bread, as well as thus mixed a drib of nutrient coloring alongside a tiny fleck of H2O as well as painted on the appear upward as well as stem.  I'm excited to travel this stance at other holidays every minute well: Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day, etc.  Have a fun day!

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Best Pumpkin sandwiches

Happy Halloween!  Here's what I made the kids for luncheon today, I stance I'd percentage the idea.  Pumpkin-shaped peanut butter as well as dear sandwiches.  I wishing I could run into John's appear upward when he opens his lunch, he's going to hold upward thus excited.  I used a cookie cutter to cutting the shapes out of bread, as well as thus mixed a drib of nutrient coloring alongside a tiny fleck of H2O as well as painted on the appear upward as well as stem.  I'm excited to travel this stance at other holidays every minute well: Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day, etc.  Have a fun day!

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Best Pumpkin sandwiches

Happy Halloween!  Here's what I made the kids for luncheon today, I stance I'd percentage the idea.  Pumpkin-shaped peanut butter as well as dear sandwiches.  I wishing I could run into John's appear upward when he opens his lunch, he's going to hold upward thus excited.  I used a cookie cutter to cutting the shapes out of bread, as well as thus mixed a drib of nutrient coloring alongside a tiny fleck of H2O as well as painted on the appear upward as well as stem.  I'm excited to travel this stance at other holidays every minute well: Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day, etc.  Have a fun day!

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Best Easter Egg garland

So perhaps I'm jumping the gun here, but alongside the warm conditions we've had I precisely couldn't aid getting out the outpouring in addition to Easter decorations... all two of them :) We seat on the kids Easter pillowcases thus made a garland alongside the Easter eggs we've decorated over the years. Every twelvemonth nosotros blow out a bunch of eggs in addition to come upward up alongside a novel mode to decorate them. It's fun to await dorsum in addition to encounter what the kids convey done. We started yesteryear only drawing on eggs alongside permanent marker. The adjacent twelvemonth nosotros cutting upward unlike colors of tissue newspaper in addition to mod-podged them on, in addition to the twelvemonth later that nosotros cutting out pictures of things that reminded us of outpouring from magazines in addition to mod-podged those on. This years eggs are notwithstanding to hold out decided...

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Best Easter Egg garland

So perhaps I'm jumping the gun here, but alongside the warm conditions we've had I precisely couldn't aid getting out the outpouring in addition to Easter decorations... all two of them :) We seat on the kids Easter pillowcases thus made a garland alongside the Easter eggs we've decorated over the years. Every twelvemonth nosotros blow out a bunch of eggs in addition to come upward up alongside a novel mode to decorate them. It's fun to await dorsum in addition to encounter what the kids convey done. We started yesteryear only drawing on eggs alongside permanent marker. The adjacent twelvemonth nosotros cutting upward unlike colors of tissue newspaper in addition to mod-podged them on, in addition to the twelvemonth later that nosotros cutting out pictures of things that reminded us of outpouring from magazines in addition to mod-podged those on. This years eggs are notwithstanding to hold out decided...

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Best Valentine's Box

Earlier this calendar month I turned a clementine box into our family's Valentine's box (doesn't it e'er experience adept to reuse stuff?) We accept tardily been collecting letters from menage unit of measurement too friends, too the kids accept written letters to each other. Tonight when Pete gets abode nosotros volition hold out having a piddling political party to celebrate this fun day, playing Valentine's Bingo, eating tomato plant soup too heart-shaped biscuits, too opening all these dearest notes. Pete too I e'er become out on the tenth of Feb inwards celebration of our first-date anniversary, too then pass Valentine's Day amongst the kids. Hope yous all teach to produce something fun today!

Valentine's Giveaway...



The random release generator has chosen the i too only Jess! (who but happens to likewise hold out my cute sister-in-law!) Congratulations!

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Best Valentine's Box

Earlier this calendar month I turned a clementine box into our family's Valentine's box (doesn't it e'er experience adept to reuse stuff?) We accept tardily been collecting letters from menage unit of measurement too friends, too the kids accept written letters to each other. Tonight when Pete gets abode nosotros volition hold out having a piddling political party to celebrate this fun day, playing Valentine's Bingo, eating tomato plant soup too heart-shaped biscuits, too opening all these dearest notes. Pete too I e'er become out on the tenth of Feb inwards celebration of our first-date anniversary, too then pass Valentine's Day amongst the kids. Hope yous all teach to produce something fun today!

Valentine's Giveaway...



The random release generator has chosen the i too only Jess! (who but happens to likewise hold out my cute sister-in-law!) Congratulations!

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Best Valentine's Cards

Don't forget to banking concern jibe out the Valentine's Giveaway: a hand-drawn portrait!

The cupid brought the kids stickers as well as stamps to brand Valentine's cards amongst before this week, thence nosotros accept been busy making cards for friends as well as family. We accept sat downwards each morning time later on breakfast as well as worked on them, making equally many each twenty-four hours equally the kids wanted. We'll post each amongst a picture of the kids as well as a slice of gum for the cousins as well as friends. I similar how the kids' personalities each come upward out when nosotros come about fine art projects. Joe ever ends upward getting his hands into everything (he stamped his piffling fingers all over his cards), Dan likes experimenting amongst layers (stickers on travel past times of stamps, stamps on travel past times of stamps) as well as has a real unloose style, as well as John is real methodical as well as thoughtful as well as likes creating patterns.



When John was immature I helped him brand piffling turkeys to give to grandparents, tracing his hands on colorful structure paper, as well as thence using them for the feathers on the turkey. When he gave them to the grandparents, ane grandparent, amongst a smile, said, "So did y'all brand this, or did your mom?" I wasn't offended at all (really, I wasn't), but I realized as well as thence that, certain enough, I had pretty much done the whole project! The hands were perfectly traced, neatly cutting out, as well as glued together but so... plainly a 2-year one-time had non had much to produce amongst it. The feathers were the size of his hands, that's it. The turkey was from me, non from John. Since then, when we're making things for people, I accept made an endeavor to give the kids the supplies as well as education they need, as well as thence sit down dorsum as well as scout equally they brand their ain creations. It's less travel for me as well as it way to a greater extent than to the kids as well as to the recipient. It mightiness non live on precisely what I envisioned, but the kids beloved looking at what they made as well as watching people's reaction when they give it to them. Messier? Yes. But to a greater extent than personality, idea as well as creativity? Definitely.

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Best Valentine's Cards

Don't forget to banking concern jibe out the Valentine's Giveaway: a hand-drawn portrait!

The cupid brought the kids stickers as well as stamps to brand Valentine's cards amongst before this week, thence nosotros accept been busy making cards for friends as well as family. We accept sat downwards each morning time later on breakfast as well as worked on them, making equally many each twenty-four hours equally the kids wanted. We'll post each amongst a picture of the kids as well as a slice of gum for the cousins as well as friends. I similar how the kids' personalities each come upward out when nosotros come about fine art projects. Joe ever ends upward getting his hands into everything (he stamped his piffling fingers all over his cards), Dan likes experimenting amongst layers (stickers on travel past times of stamps, stamps on travel past times of stamps) as well as has a real unloose style, as well as John is real methodical as well as thoughtful as well as likes creating patterns.



When John was immature I helped him brand piffling turkeys to give to grandparents, tracing his hands on colorful structure paper, as well as thence using them for the feathers on the turkey. When he gave them to the grandparents, ane grandparent, amongst a smile, said, "So did y'all brand this, or did your mom?" I wasn't offended at all (really, I wasn't), but I realized as well as thence that, certain enough, I had pretty much done the whole project! The hands were perfectly traced, neatly cutting out, as well as glued together but so... plainly a 2-year one-time had non had much to produce amongst it. The feathers were the size of his hands, that's it. The turkey was from me, non from John. Since then, when we're making things for people, I accept made an endeavor to give the kids the supplies as well as education they need, as well as thence sit down dorsum as well as scout equally they brand their ain creations. It's less travel for me as well as it way to a greater extent than to the kids as well as to the recipient. It mightiness non live on precisely what I envisioned, but the kids beloved looking at what they made as well as watching people's reaction when they give it to them. Messier? Yes. But to a greater extent than personality, idea as well as creativity? Definitely.

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Best The xiv Days of Valentines

February has ever been Pete's to the lowest degree favorite month. The snowfall frequently melts too then everything is a dingy mess, it's cold, wintertime has been enjoyed but Christmas is long passed too saltation is withal a duet months away, too correct smack inwards the pump of Feb is a twenty-four hours that makes every human being out at that spot experience pressure level to practice something or purchase something for their exceptional soul (not that that's a bad thing, it tin but experience a fiddling forced sometimes.) So ever since nosotros were married I choose done the "14 Days of Valentines" inwards an endeavor to brand Feb a fiddling to a greater extent than bearable. I kickoff got this consider from my college roommate Janae whose mom did this for her when she was growing up. I don't know if they called it the "14 Days of Valentines," but that's what it is inwards our house. On each of the days leading upward to Valentines, the cupid comes too brings Pete too the kids a fiddling surprise. Treats, an activeness for us to practice together, a pocket-size toy... something to endure enjoyed that day.



Read on for a listing of what the cupid volition endure bringing over these adjacent two weeks!

For the kids:
1. Chocolate covered marshmallow heart
2. Star Wars toothbrush
3. Frosted creature crackers
4. Popcorn too a rented moving painting (for a moving painting night)
5. Stickers to brand Valentines cards for friends too family
6. Jello
7. Tic Tacs
8. Lego figure
9. Gum
10. Conversation Hearts
11. Gatorade
12. Star Wars Puzzle
13. Matchbox Car
14. Box of chocolates & note

For Pete:
1. Small box of chocolates
2. 20-minute caput massage
3. Frosted creature crackers
4. Popcorn too a rented moving painting (for a moving painting night)
5. 20-minute mitt massage
6. 20-minute human foot massage
7. Tic Tacs
8. 20-minute massage of your choice
9. Gum
10. Conversation Hearts
11. Gatorade
12. 20-minute leg/arm massage
13. 20-minute dorsum massage
14. Chocolate bar & note



It's variety of similar Christmas, I honey watching the kids (and Pete) come upward downstairs too banking firm tally to run across what the cupid has brought them. Should endure a fun duet of weeks!

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Best The xiv Days of Valentines

February has ever been Pete's to the lowest degree favorite month. The snowfall frequently melts too then everything is a dingy mess, it's cold, wintertime has been enjoyed but Christmas is long passed too saltation is withal a duet months away, too correct smack inwards the pump of Feb is a twenty-four hours that makes every human being out at that spot experience pressure level to practice something or purchase something for their exceptional soul (not that that's a bad thing, it tin but experience a fiddling forced sometimes.) So ever since nosotros were married I choose done the "14 Days of Valentines" inwards an endeavor to brand Feb a fiddling to a greater extent than bearable. I kickoff got this consider from my college roommate Janae whose mom did this for her when she was growing up. I don't know if they called it the "14 Days of Valentines," but that's what it is inwards our house. On each of the days leading upward to Valentines, the cupid comes too brings Pete too the kids a fiddling surprise. Treats, an activeness for us to practice together, a pocket-size toy... something to endure enjoyed that day.



Read on for a listing of what the cupid volition endure bringing over these adjacent two weeks!

For the kids:
1. Chocolate covered marshmallow heart
2. Star Wars toothbrush
3. Frosted creature crackers
4. Popcorn too a rented moving painting (for a moving painting night)
5. Stickers to brand Valentines cards for friends too family
6. Jello
7. Tic Tacs
8. Lego figure
9. Gum
10. Conversation Hearts
11. Gatorade
12. Star Wars Puzzle
13. Matchbox Car
14. Box of chocolates & note

For Pete:
1. Small box of chocolates
2. 20-minute caput massage
3. Frosted creature crackers
4. Popcorn too a rented moving painting (for a moving painting night)
5. 20-minute mitt massage
6. 20-minute human foot massage
7. Tic Tacs
8. 20-minute massage of your choice
9. Gum
10. Conversation Hearts
11. Gatorade
12. 20-minute leg/arm massage
13. 20-minute dorsum massage
14. Chocolate bar & note



It's variety of similar Christmas, I honey watching the kids (and Pete) come upward downstairs too banking firm tally to run across what the cupid has brought them. Should endure a fun duet of weeks!

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