Wordful Wednesday 411: Wordful Wednesday is like Wordless Wednesday, except WITH words.  It’s for those of us that just cannot be wordless, no matter how much we try.  Add my Wordful Wednesday badge to your post (right side bar under “WW”) if you really want to make me happy, and then add your post link to the linky below. Easy peasy.

I got to attend Astro Camp with Emma a few weeks ago.  It was absolutely fabulous.  The classes were insanely informative and interesting and the food?  The food was good.  Even the dorms were comfortable. It was so fun to be able attend camp with her as a chaperone and witness just one of the programs that my kids are able to take part in to supplement their education.  I feel really lucky.

Have a Wordful post to share with us?  Join us in our linky AFTER you check out Dude Mom (formerly Parenting by Dummies)  and these 4 awesome posts from last week’s linky!  This week’s featured linkers feature a photo of the perfect birthday dress for a little lady, an awesome family photo snapped on Easter, an awesome post about T.S. Elliot, and the cutest little gnome on the planet!

Wordful Wednesday 411: Wordful Wednesday is like Wordless Wednesday, except WITH words.  It’s for those of us that just cannot be wordless, no matter how much we try.  Add my Wordful Wednesday badge to your post (right side bar under “WW”) if you really want to make me happy, and then add your post link to the linky below. Easy peasy.

Both of my sisters are super-duper crafty.  I like to think that it runs in the family, but it doesn’t.  They have a whole lot more talent than I do.  Take these items for example.  My sister threw together these items for her daughters party and they are INCREDIBLY simple, but I would have never thought of them.  It’s all in the execution!  :)

This first one is sugar topped glasses.  She used milk bottles (I need to ask her where she purchased them), ran a lime around the rim of the glasses and then stuck them in a shallow bowl of colored sugar.  Viola!  Then she popped in a paper straw and she had the cutest darn glasses ever.  She also made ombre tissue paper flowers that you can see at the edge of the picture.  Here’s the Ombre Tissue Paper Flower Tutorial! {{score}}

And these cupcake sleeves?  Notice that they are peacock feathers?  That was the theme of the party.  She cut them out with her Silhouette machine.  All it took was a few pieces of paper.  So clever.  I would have spent all day going from store to store to store looking for just the right cupcake liner.  Duh!!!!

What side of the crafty camp are you on?

Have a Wordful post to share with us?  Join us in our linky AFTER you check out Amanda’s Parenting By Dummies and these 4 awesome posts from last week’s linky including:  A cool pricky thing that’s not from the ocean, the cutest snow shoveler I think I’ve ever seen, an incredibly colorful 1 year old and her party, and chicken time!

Wordful Wednesday 411: Wordful Wednesday is like Wordless Wednesday, except WITH words.  It’s for those of us that just cannot be wordless, no matter how much we try.  Add my Wordful Wednesday badge to your post (right side bar under “WW”) if you really want to make me happy, and then add your post link to the linky below. Easy peasy.

Last week was a sad week.  We said goodbye to our much loved grandfather and great-grandfather, nicknamed, grandpa Poe.  There aren’t many people full of innate goodness like Dean.  I can’t even begin to tell you how much he’ll be missed.

It was the kids first loss that they can remember, and even though I think he was ready to go home, we are all still pretty heartbroken.

There’s always so much work that goes into saying goodbye, including going through stuff.  I was the recipient of this Thermo Spoon from 1965 that I’m pretty excited about, although I wish it didn’t come my way this way.  It’s a combination thermometer and spoon that’s lasted 50 years!

And look at these old cake decorating paste colors!  So many treasures.  I think that maybe that’s the point of leaving things behind.  So that the one’s feeling sad have little treasures to find to remind them of the ones that passed, since each object has some meaning; in this case, memories of grandpa Dean linked with grandma Doris.

Hope you have a wonderful week!

Have a Wordful post to share with us?  Join us in our linky AFTER you check out Amanda’s Parenting By Dummies and these 4 awesome posts from last week’s linky!  We pick our 4 faves every week to feature and it’s just our way of saying thanks for sharing your moments with us!

And, be sure to check out this week’s featured linkers featuring a photo of what good daddy’s look like, a really great post about hard choices moms have to make, the very best way to start a morning, and the best boy birthday party idea I’ve seen all month year.

Wordful Wednesday 411: Wordful Wednesday is like Wordless Wednesday, except WITH words.  It’s for those of us that just cannot be wordless, no matter how much we try.  Add my Wordful Wednesday badge to your post (right side bar under “WW”) if you really want to make me happy, and then add your post link to the linky below. Easy peasy.

When my kids get together with their cousins, there is always wrestling and a little bit of good chaos involved.  This past weekend I caught a shot that just made me laugh.

My favorite part of the picture is that grandma is sitting in the background oblivious to the noise and wrestling going on at her feet and doing her own thing.  I’m pretty sure it’s one of those skills one acquires after having 6 kids and over 20 grandkids, and then there is Jeff with a child sitting on his head.

Classic.

Have a Wordful post to share with us?  Join us in our linky AFTER you check out Amanda’s Parenting By Dummies and these 4 awesome posts from last week’s linky!  We pick our 4 faves every week to feature and it’s just our way of saying thanks for sharing your moments with us!

This week’s features include the shopping cart, fun in chaos, The Paper Mama,  and chocolate peanut butter surprises!