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Jun 26
Ben’s Birthday
Ben turned 2! James had to work, so the kids and I had our typical day of a walk and school stuff (this was our last week of real-quarantine-school), and Evie helped me cook and we ate and opened gifts once James got home. And it turned out that the shirt I got Ben matched …
Jun 26
Random May Pictures
Instead of buying kiddie pools, we broke out the winter sleds and filled those with water, which both kids have enjoyed. Ben hates water splashed in his face a la Evie or the sprinkler, but he does enjoy sitting in the water and taking water from one place to another. You can also see pieces …
Jun 26
Mother’s Day
I had asked James for a picnic, but it was cold! So we ate inside. James put together a tea party with small sandwiches, smoked salmon, blueberry scones, a caprese salad, and tea. So good! Plus, he made challah, which was supposed to be for French toast, but we ran out of eggs. So we …
Jun 26
Random April Pictures
From about late March through the end of the school year, I homeschooled Evie. Starting about mid April, Evie’s teacher started sending weekly lessons, to include worksheets and projects. But until then, I was on my own. One of the things we did was make homemade play-doh and paper bag jellyfish -and then we made …
Jun 26
Random March Pictures
Here we are sneaking cookies while Ben is elsewhere. Evie has a ways to go to understand such things as “act natural” and “clandestine.” Every now and then, Evie will read Ben his bedtime story. Ben seems to be the limiting factor more often than not, but it’s still sweet to watch. Ben is both …
Jun 12
The Kids
Ben He has clearly learned when he’s doing something wrong because whenever he’s doing something and we go to stop him, he’ll run and back away, shaking his head, like “come and get me, coppa!” Ben and Words He constantly says “oh nooo!” Something has fallen, “oh nooo!” Something is stuck, “oh nooo!” Something’s not …
Apr 18
Patio Furniture
We needed new patio furniture but we couldn’t quite agree on what to get and we definitely didn’t want to spend a ton of money on it. Eventually, we decided James could take it on as a project (seriously, it was a joint decision; we were looking at other projects and talked about maybe making …
Apr 05
A Meal with Ingredients that Keep
Essentially. Also, both kids loved it. So there’s that endorsement. I’ve been baking my own bread because we, the Sakasens, can’t live without bread, and I found this easy and delicious French bread recipe from King Arthur. It’s a recipe that requires a sponge (it’s just some of the water, flour, and yeast, mixed and …
Mar 27
My New Apron
I made myself an apron! I had a lot of scraps of fabric, much of which I had used for a picnic blanket I made a few years ago. Plus, lots of worn out jeans. Anyway, I did much the same thing, made a patchwork square fabric that I cut out to make a pinafore …
Mar 27
Painting, part 1
We painted all of the rooms upstairs when we moved it, but hadn’t done much since then (I painted the half bath last year around this time). We had some water damage in the master bathroom/bedroom (and Evie’s room) because of shottily made houses and their roofs, wind, and rain, and the drywall repair extended …