The Reluctant Mommy Blogger

Saturday we took the kids to the barber's for hair cuts. This is Hunter's second hair cut and first trip to a barber shop. He sat very still and was very good. Trent, on the other hand, couldn't stop squirming and the poor woman was doing her best, but…. Well…. Garrick made "Dumb and Dumber" references because of how the kids hair looks.

The boys are coloring with blue paint. They’ve been getting tired of
crayons and markers.

I spent so many months making this baby blanket and it came out so beautifully. I think it's my best work yet. I'm actually getting really good at knitting. I made it for my friend Jen and her son Reed. She seemed to really like it. 

After the kids and I got back from New York we started doing a free homeschool curriculum. To see the one we are using, just go to the Brightly Beaming Resources website. We are on week four, which has an eye theme. These are pictures of the kids examining each others and the dogs eyes to see the pupils dilate. 

>> This is our first real tree that we’ve gotten at this house since we moved in and the second one we’ve ever had! Part of reason for that is the last time we got a tree it cost a small fortune. This year we were able to get a good deal. Thank you VFW!
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>> Wish I had taken some pics when we picked it up, but we were only there for ten minutes. We got the second one we looked at.
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>> My basement smells like Christmas, too. Love it!
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So. I have been having a difficult time getting back into the swing of blogging after my New York trip. I didn't really post while I was travelling and I got very behind. I have a bunch of pictures and stories to go with them from those months and I feel as though I need to get them on the site before I blog about anything else. I did the same thing last year, too. 

The Schenectady Museum has the world's oldest known commercial electron microscope. I think that's something special.

Back in September my sister Caitlin and I took the kids and our dogs to Thatcher Park. We wanted to take the kids onto the Indian Ladder Trails, but two hurricanes had blown through the area and I deemed it too dangerous to do with two little boys while watching two doggers. Still, it was fun doing the hike along the top of the cliff and back again. There was also a birding class going on there that day. There were a bunch of people from the local bird rescue there to talk about raptors and migrating birds and they were set up all along the trail. If we had known, we probably wouldn't have brought the dogs since we had to avoid all the booths because of the birds.