Life Adventures for Miles

Today was another family event! No cousins this time but a hyper, excited, real-life pup to play with, outside field toys, piano playing, one uncle, one aunt, 2 grandparents, and some stuff he's were enough to tire out the four-year-old, this Christmas Day! Elmo came with cookies and hot chocolate, and a little reindeer (moose?) friend came with a gift card for dinner out! Then there were the fun cards and what I dubbed "luna cash" for something luna-size fin from the great-grands! All in all, a great southern/southwestern dinner (what I call lunch) of good food and good company!  As we learned our luna-lesson from yesterday, our day ended in a nice NC time zone timeline, so there were minimal fuss and luna drama but still a good amount of time for the family! The C Christmases were the only solid plan for this trip, so I am hoping tomorrow we can just take a day to relax and recharge after all this excitement. Wish me luck! Christmas facts ! While CHRISTmas is all about

  Happy Thanksgiving!!! We had a "friendsgiving" in which friends get together to celebrate Thanksgiving. This year, along with the lots of food, we had a lot of video gameplay happening too. After about 10 years of marriage to my husband, I tend to forget the holidays considering they are usually just another day in this household (unless we get invited to do things like to this shindig). It was fun trying to adult for a bit and Luna did pretty well considering there were no other kids around. Though I suppose that is actually her normal (more adults than kids) so she learned pretty well at entertaining herself, and I have learned to bring things that entertain her (and not destroy wherever we are at)....hmmm, maybe this is why we have so much fuss when there are other kids involved in the entertainment... Thanksgiving fun facts: a) Thanksgiving was first celebrated in 1621 over a 3 day harvest festival between Pilgrims and Native Americans from the  Wampanoag tribe b) It is

Today started out with ball rolling (she woke me up with a big pink ball in her hands) then somehow I walk out to see her standing in the flour container with her cat boy stuffed animal covered in flour ...boy, was that fun! It calmed a little bit after that with screens, paw patrol and blocks but we did have a major session of mommy mountain jungle gym/hide-and-seek. Today wasn't too exciting besides all that as she preferred the quieter playing and lounging activities in the afternoon. I vegged mostly as well, reading and netflixing some reruns of old anime I've seen before (one about gods, one about beastmen, and one about lego ninjas, also a 1998 animation/musical about Camelot). Nothing too hard today, cleaned some house, cleaned some luna mess. Ooh but we died have a good building session while we were building in the kitchen too! Fun fun! I almost forgot! Happy Veterans Day!  5 Facts:  For those who are like me spelling wise...the spelling has no apostrophe (')...due

 So the day was for Katja lessons. Parenting my four year old is getting a little more interesting. I am unsure if it is because of the age, my recent evaluation or just because the inevitable actions of parenting evolution (or all of these factors and more), however, I am finding it hard to understand and foster that fine line between encouraging/pushing for her to do things and letting it be. This week also brought an expectation of doing something and anticipating it would turn out a certain way and it turning out differently. While I was right with this party-I could totally compare it to collage house/frat parties and being the one in a lone corner, while all the others mingle (not that I've ever actually been to such a thing)- I was also kind of expecting it to be a little less collage frat party and a little more...er, not collage frat party. My husband never did put on the scary movie he brought for background noise so I never had to deal with that either. I suppose it work