Crafting and Creating and Burning the Candle at Both Ends…

A few more field trips were checked off our list! The snow melted enough for us to get out and take the kids to see meteorologist Mark Nelsen. Arabella, loving everything about weather was so excited. She wasn’t the only kid who enjoyed it though… Elijah and Luca did as well. Ezra, well… not so much. He was not a fan. We all walked away with some fun science and history that pertained to the pacific northwest.

Arabella found an abandoned fish at McDonald’s. We brought him home and he only made it a week. The poor guy died right before her birthday. We took him out of the tiny jar he was in and moved him to something bigger but he just didn’t make it.

We also took the kids to see the Auto Show. Their favorite thing was riding in all of the new cars… especially when they went fast!

But mostly… I have been party planning. Arabella wanted to have a Harry Potter birthday this year. Ironically age 11 is known as the “Harry Potter Birthday” because it is the age he found out he was a wizard. I did not know this before planning her birthday. Her quiz said that she was a Ravenclaw but she decided she wanted to be Hufflepuff instead. Anyway I have spent countless hours ordering decorations, finding everything butterbeer that I could, making letters that would float, hand making wands for party favors and handmaking random treats and things for her birthday. Hopefully it goes well. Needless to say I am absolutely exhausted. Of course she is worth it. I want all of my kids to know that I am glad they were born and that their birthdays are special. I will always “burn the candle” during birthday season… because I want them to feel extra special.