Okay, I promise this is the last post about my daughter’s birthday party! I even debated writing the third part, but how could I not share the best event of all! That and it would just bug me. I hate leaving things unfinished. So, here they are, the last events of the Olympic Games backyard […]

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Hmmm. This is the first time I’ve done a blog series. Where did I leave off in Part One? Oh, yes, I was on event number three in the backyard Olympics for my daughter’s seventh birthday party.
If you want to get up to speed about how we made team uniforms, had an opening ceremony (with a “torch” and […]

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It was my daughter’s seventh birthday party over the weekend and I want to share with you the games we played. Not just because all the kids had a blast, but also so I can justify all the time I spent planning that party! I spent more hours planning the party than the length of […]

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It is such a beautiful day today that I sat with my baby in the backyard taking it all in. Definitely one of the pros of working from home! While we played on the blanket, I decided to brainstorm about today’s kid activity. I knew I wanted to write about an outdoor scavenger hunt, but […]

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This activity is so simple, but has given me some of my favorite parenthood memories! When I think back on some of my more elaborate efforts at orchestrating the perfect moment (i.e., when I hired a fairy godmother for my three-year-old daughter’s princess birthday party) and how they backfired miserably (my daughter was in such […]

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