Category Archives: Simple Sunday

Simple Sunday – Restricted Area with Love (and a Parasitic Infection)

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Shoes

To build up to Valentine’s Day this year, I posted a paper heart a day (well, almost every day) on the boys’ bedroom door, each with a reason why I loved them written on it.  Their interest level in what … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Crock Pot Cat

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Shoes

*Please note, no actual cats were harmed in the making of the crock pot pulled pork taco dinner.

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Simple Sunday – Star Wars Love

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Shoes

Cody and I have been reading various Star Wars backstory books.  It started with a Boba Fett book he found at Half Price Books over a year ago and has expanded from there.  We are currently reading Legacy of the … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – White Out

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Shoes

I don’t know how it happened for I was not there.  Sometime Saturday when Cody and Carter were playing with their cousins, Carter ended up with Wite-Out on his nose.  You know the stuff, the odoriferous white pasty correction fluid … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Christmas 2016

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Shoes

After a morning of stockings and breakfast, we decided to continue with our relatively new tradition of a Christmas morning desert hike. We packed up the dogs and headed out to the desert. I must have been very good this … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Early Pre-Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Shoes

Friday was the last day of school for two weeks (hooray!!)  In the classroom, we combined math and art to make these “Merry Math” trees.  As you can see, we have been working on the inverse relationship between multiplication and … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Chairs for the Guests (?)

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Shoes

Each year, about a month before Thanksgiving, we host a Practice Thanksgiving.  It is a fully involved Thanksgiving dinner with family, friends, and turkey with all the trimmings. This year our Practice Thanksgiving was on the second weekend of October … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Cookies and Cheese

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Shoes

This weekend Carter wanted to bake cookies with me. He decided on peanut butter with chocolate chips. After all the ingredients had been carefully measured and mixed – well, as carefully as an impatient eight-year-old boy can be – Carter … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Poster Making Day

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Shoes

Last Sunday was poster making day at Casa de Shoes on the Wrong Feet.  Carter had an All About Me poster to complete, Cody had his massive tri-fold Science poster to put together, and I had my small tri-fold Informational … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – 10

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Shoes

Yesterday Cody turned ten. The big one zero. The full two hands. Double digits. Wow. Every year, I go back and reread the first post I wrote about his birthday and every year it gives me chills.  Those of you … Continue reading →

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