Category: aloha friday

It looks like warm weather is finally back here in Wisconsin – hopefully to stay this time! Days like this though, I loathe being in the kitchen, especially come dinner time.

So my Aloha Friday question today is:

What’s your favorite go-to meal on a hot day?

Aloha Friday is a weekly blogging carnival hosted by Kailani @ An Island Life. Following the Hawaiian tradition to take it easy on Fridays, she posts a simple question on her blog for everyone to answer and encourages everyone to do the same thing on their blogs. It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

We recently got our (almost 5 year old) son, MM, a really awesome set of crayons. I wanted something with a plastic case instead of cardboard so it would hold up better, and it had to be Crayola – I think we can all agree, this is a must – and I have to say I’m pretty thrilled with what we got.

He’s been in coloring heaven ever since, loving his beautiful new crayons in every color he can imagine.

So my Aloha Friday question this week is:

What is your favorite color?

Take it easy today with Kailani @ An Island Life.

First time participating? It’s easy!

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Say, “Aloha!” ; answer their question ; make bloggy friends!

It’s Friday again bloggy buddies! I don’t know about you, but this week has just craaaaaawled for me, mostly because we haven’t left the apartment all.freaking.week. See, my kiddos have had this persistent cough since like the beginning of time (okay MM has had it for 2 weeks, little BB about 1 week) and every time I’ve taken them out, I end up regretting it.

I keep going back and forth on whether or not I think they are actually sick because it’s one of those annoying They Seem Perfectly Happy and Healthy All Day if you ignore the COUGH HACK SPLURT every twenty minutes or so kind of sicknesses. Okay I’m exaggerating on the hacking and splurting, cause it’s more of a dry cough, but I thought the extra descriptions make my situation seem more dire and worthy of your sympathy.

But then every time last week that I said, “Screw it, these kids aren’t even sick and I’m BORED!” and took them out, they immediately set to work coughing on everyone in sight and making me feel all guilty germy neglectful mommy, so inside this week we stayed and it’s suuuuuucked.

So this combined with other hormonal elements and typical mischievous toddler and bored out of his skull preschooler antics have made it kind of a stressful, banging on the doors begging for mercy kind of weeks. By the end of the week, basically all of the toys have been taken away, leaving BB with like one lone block and MM his coloring supplies and seriously, yeah that’s about it (okay fine, I didn’t take BB’s baby dolls away and the giant toy kitchen is still in the living room because there’s no room left in our bedroom, but there aren’t any toy foods or plates or silverware or anything, not even the fine toy china, people, I went ballistic!)…

Hmmm… what was my point again? Oh right, I’m bored. And cold. And suffering a bit of cabin fever…

So my Aloha Friday question this week is:

If you could be anywhere but here today, where would you be?

Take it easy today with Kailani @ An Island Life.

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Say, “Aloha!” ; answer their question ; make bloggy friends!

It’s a very special day today for two reasons. The first being obvious – it’s Christmas Eve. There will likely be cookie baking and Christmas Eve Pajamas opening and maybe a drive through town to look at the lights. I am so excited about Christmas morning this year, and I know my 4 1/2 year old is probably even more excited and he doesn’t even know about all the awesome stuff he’s getting!

It’s also a special day because it’s my birthday! 28 years ago today my parents got the world’s coolest Christmas present a day early. People all across the world were singing carols of joy and I like to think it was partly because they knew I had been born and that eventually I’d go on to write this blog and make a difference in the lives of five readers everywhere. I’d fill hearts across the country with laughter and pictures of cute kids and smug feelings of, “Jeez, if this girl can land an amazing husband and two adorable kids, I’m pretty sure I could solve world hunger or something.” Which means I probably sort of cause world peace at some point. No need to thank me, though I do accept cookies, free books and techy swag (I might even review it for you).

So my Aloha Friday question this week is:

What are you doing today to celebrate my birthday (or Christmas Eve if you prefer, but honestly, who are we kidding?)?

Take it easy today with Kailani @ An Island Life.

First time participating? It’s easy!

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Say, “Aloha!” ; answer their question ; make bloggy friends!

I know normally, I like to prattle on about my life and then beg you for advice, recipes ,etc. but I’m going to keep things short and sweet this week (you’re welcome) and just ask you a generic question instead.

So my Aloha Friday question this week is:

What do you want Santa to leave you under the tree this year?

If reality weren’t a factor, what would you really want under the tree?

Take it easy today with Kailani @ An Island Life.

First time participating? It’s easy!

Write a post with a simple question, then link up here.

Click on the links for other participating bloggers.

Say, “Aloha!” ; answer their question ; make bloggy friends!