I am so in love with awe of my new blog friend, Katherine! She’s like a super hero to me … what with all her creativity, photography and love of the Lord … I’d say that’s what friends are made of! ;)
Anyway. So she has this over-achieving little thing she does … theme of the week … please let it be known that I think it’s “all that” and more! I’ve pretty much told her so, when she ever so innocently suggested “I try one and hey! maybe I could even guest post on her site.” No offense, but that’s just some sort of crazy talk as far as I’m concerned!
I kind of get the prickly sweats of anxiety {and don’t go pretending you don’t know what I’m talking about!} looking through her themes and photographs! Nevertheless, she patiently encouraged me and gave me some great suggestions.
I figured I should get a couple of “themes” under my belt before I go thinking I’m guest post worthy! ;)
So! What to theme? Well … when I decided to try something, we were smack dab in the middle of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Perfect!
Bonus that there was lots of inspiration around the web that I could draw on. And as you’ll see … there was one particular team we were supporting!
Color sorting and cake making with Hunter
Learning Fun: sorting; spelling; and patterns
We also learned the meaning behind the Olympic flag & it’s rings {pretty cool stuff!}
Snack time: food the color of the Olympic rings; cake with M&M colored rings; bagels with cream cheese
colored rings; star-shaped cutout cookies; oreo cookies {disguised as silver medals}
{note to self: disclose to kids if something that looks like frosting, isn’t frosting … especially if it’s cream cheese}
Crafts & Activities: bracelets; baking; torch & medals
Activities: torch relay; medal ceremony
Games: balloon races; cracker whistling contest
Book: tacky & the winter games
Ideas & Inspiration:
Food crafts :: Taste of Home
Olympic flag lesson :: A to Z Kids Stuff
Torch & Medals :: Alpha Mom
Bracelets :: No Time for Flashcards
Who needs gold?
Takeaway Thoughts: I’ve seen Katherine’s themes for a few months now and would sort of stress myself out
wanting to do it “just like her.” Kind of that whole bloggie pressure thing. Why oh why do we do that to ourselves?
It almost seemed like such an overwhelming thing to do, that I didn’t even want to give it a try. I didn’t want to “fail”
so I didn’t even try. Not cool.
Thanks to Katherine’s gentle encouraging … I’m so incredibly happy I gave it a go! I gotta be honest, I’m not happy
with my photos and of course the crafts could’ve been better and on and on I go.
But wait a minute … even as I’m writing this post, I’m smiling looking back on this time we spent together.
And remembering how excited the girls were each night coming home and wondering what the days “theme” would bring.
How we laughed and laughed at them trying to waddle with a balloon between their legs. And how Wynter just came up and saw
these photos and starting smiling and talking about the things we did together.
And that’s what it’s all about. Family time. Fun time. Building memories.
We’re definitely going to be doing this again.
