Riot and Frolic
a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog
Month: December 2013
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Advent Adventures Day 20 : decorate "trees". Confession: I am a holiday bargain hunter. I pick out the majority of my birthday/summertime/Christmas/Easter goodies and then wait until after the holiday to pick them up for 90% off. All my twinkle lights? $1.94. Score. Last year, I snatched some little kid craft kits for…
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Advent Adventures Day 19 : Go to the zoo. "Go to the zoo." That's what the card said. V opened the bag to reveal the day's activity… And read it. Yay, V! GO TO THE ZOO! Como Zoo has a great Thursday morning kids' program: it's free, it's educational, and it's not annoying. There's one…
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Advent Adventures Day 17 : make your sister's bed. Lame, right? WRONG. The little ladies thought this was HILARIOUS. The Advent story was about Joseph trying to find a spot to stay in Bethlehem, so our story was Joseph and Mary were coming to stay at our house. I got them to clean the bathroom for the…
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Advent Adventures Day 16 : give toys away. There's a bunch of ideas on Pinterest about "Santa sacks", where your kids fill up a bag of out-grown and/or under-used toys to leave for Santa under the tree. Since the little ladies are well acquainted with Goodwill and the idea behind it, we just gathered up toys…
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Advent Adventures Day 15 : candy hunt. The story of the day in ye olde Advent book was "The Search", where the three wise men were a-lookin' for the new king. In my usual way, I loooooosely used that for the basis of today's activity. Also as usual, I found it very important that I have…
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Advent Adventures Day 14 : visit Santa and watch The Grinch How else do I celebrate the day before my birthday, other than getting violently ill? Send my husband and little ladies out for a tasty and hilarious Breakfast with Santa, of course. I never plan on bringing the ladies to see Saint Nic,…
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Advent Adventures Day 13: take the train in to Minneapolis and watch the Holidazzle parade. Otherwise known as, Holidon't, Holidisappointment, or, my personal favorite, Holi-diaster. Here's the problem with the Holidazzle parade: it's a winter parade… IN MINNESOTA. We have forecasts that are described as "BITTERLY COLD". "FEELS LIKE -19°". NINETEEN BELOW ZERO, PEOPLE. You Californians,…
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Advent Adventures Day 12 : Borax snowflakes. Yo. Today I channeled my Martha Stewart and made Borax snowflakes with the little ladies. It was neat. There was science involved. I loosely tied this in with the three wise men and their charts and science-y stuff. Yeeeah. Loosely. here's mae cake showing off her snowflake pipe-cleaner…
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Advent Adventures Day 10: shopping for sisters. In theory, the girls really liked this one, but when they opened up the bag, they were awfully disappointed it was "just a card". [When there's an action to be accomplished that day, it's just written on a notecard. Not a great motivator for the pre-reading set.] We haven't…
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Advent Adventures Day 9 : stars. The wee book told of the star seen by the three wise men. We took that star and ran with it by making star garlands (AKA decorations for the little ladies' bedroom). While you all (yes, you) have been very complimentary of my mothering skills, let's not kid…
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