Blog Title: A Gaggle of Girls - The girls of summer & the

The Weekend of Sushi Madness!

I have always thought that we needed a day in which to recover from a weekend. Today is no exception! Our weekend in thumbnails, a lot of fun and quite a bit of sushi… Our new universal remote, picked up Friday. It’s so cool to be able to turn on the TV and change channels read more..

Happy New Year!

2008 has been an amazing year. A year of many changes, and one that has ended on a very hopeful note. We have had so much go on in our lives this year, I have yet to figure out a pithy end-of-year letter. We are celebrating tonight with a newly cleaned fridge and a read more..

Target customer service sucks! But puppies and kids are fun

As with all visits with NannyOgg of the 7, yesterday’s visit started with a bang! That was me falling down the stairs. I’m OK, just a bit bruised in the hand & tailbone and in extra fun pain. Ow! And now we have a major snowstorm, just in time to upload read more..

Insert pause here

I have had a bit of a problem with my camera cable (yay for the people on eBay selling them for $1!), so you’ll have to wait a bit for more Christmas pics. I’ve decided to stop thinking until the New Year, as well. I may decide to buy a couple of Amazon’s 50 $5 read more..

The stockings were hung…

After a wonderful Christmas eve party with my parents and a lovely visit to their church for the caroling service, we came home to set up for Santa. The stockings were hung by the window with care, in hopes that Santa would fill them with gifties. The girls each opened 1 present, and because Mom was slow read more..

Nothing says Merry Christmas like fire!

Children bonding over a warm fire. OK, we don’t have a fireplace, but … We uploaded a new video that was less dark, and it includes instructions for you to do the trick yourself! If you wanted to, you could pretend that the fire popping up in the air is like the star appearing read more..

Finding miracles along the way

As we grow closer and closer to the celebration of the miracle of Christmas, we are looking for miracles in the world around us. We have the joy of lengthening days after the solstice, and the celebration of the miracle of Hannukah. If you’ve told the story of the miracle of Hannukah and are looking read more..

Ups and downs and Ooooh - fire!

We had an up and down weekend this weekend. It was cold when we ran out of oil, but we snuggled together and then it got really warm & toasty when the oil man came! Not having the van on Friday to go swimming & run errands was sad. But The snow was read more..

A story with lots of As

I tell “Uncle A…” stories. These are all stories of things my younger brother has done (fallen over a waterfall, jumped off a train, shot a bb gun…), all things which the girls can learn from his mistakes rather than making he mistakes themselves. A good lesson! Well, unfortunately I hadn’t told a particular read more..

Snuggle under covers while the snow covers the outside

Our plans for the weekend were changed unexpectedly when our agreement for van sharing was canceled by my husband. We had some errands to run before he snow came, but that didn’t happen. We were all very disappointed we couldn’t go swimming with our friends his morning, sudden changes of plans are never read more..