Comments on: Boys & simple delights http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/ Living at full velocity. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lauren http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/comment-page-1/#comment-10541 Lauren Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:20:38 +0000 http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/#comment-10541 It's a very handmade holiday season around our house this year. Lately, I'm sort of repulsed by all the plasticy need to buy stuff. Maybe I'm getting old and crotchety, or just cheap, but I'm making nearly everything this year. We are keeping some wonderful traditions this year -- we went and cut down a little tree last weekend near Mt. St. Helens, brought it home and decorated it together. I am looking forward to finishing some knitted gifts, baking, and next weekend's big yule dinner. The hubby is taking time off while I'm on winter break, and we're looking forward to some down time together. It really is a great time of year. Your boys sound like so much fun! I am still hoping for sons, my husband for daughters -- we'll see what we end up with! It’s a very handmade holiday season around our house this year. Lately, I’m sort of repulsed by all the plasticy need to buy stuff. Maybe I’m getting old and crotchety, or just cheap, but I’m making nearly everything this year.

We are keeping some wonderful traditions this year — we went and cut down a little tree last weekend near Mt. St. Helens, brought it home and decorated it together. I am looking forward to finishing some knitted gifts, baking, and next weekend’s big yule dinner.

The hubby is taking time off while I’m on winter break, and we’re looking forward to some down time together. It really is a great time of year.

Your boys sound like so much fun! I am still hoping for sons, my husband for daughters — we’ll see what we end up with!

]]> By: tara pollard pakosta http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/comment-page-1/#comment-10540 tara pollard pakosta Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:44:24 +0000 http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/#comment-10540 They are so cute together! Nothing like a sibling bond, that's for sure! it's so sweet to watch! We always baked Christmas shaped cookies to decorate, buy one new ornament (or make one), paint pictures, ride around and look at Christmas lights w/ a cofffee/hot chocolate, buy mittens for the mitten tree at school, make paper snowflakes, this year we did a paper chain for the tree and we loved it! we do alot of things, but I got the flu last week and it really set me back big time! tara They are so cute together!
Nothing like a sibling bond,
that’s for sure! it’s so sweet to watch!
We always baked Christmas shaped cookies to decorate,
buy one new ornament (or make one), paint pictures,
ride around and look at Christmas lights w/ a cofffee/hot chocolate, buy mittens for the mitten tree at school,
make paper snowflakes, this year we did a paper chain for the tree and we loved it! we do alot of things, but I got
the flu last week and it really set me back big time!
tara

]]> By: Christina http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/comment-page-1/#comment-10535 Christina Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:39:16 +0000 http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/#comment-10535 Oh I am loving these little glimpses into your holiday traditions... Bethany: I want the panettone recipe!! Do you have one? And snowflakes... you can fold one of two ways: Fold a 8.5x11 piece of paper in half the fat way, then in half again. Keep the creased part towards you. Open the second fold, and then fold in triangular fourths (or more) Cut the raw edges off evenly, then cut again elaborately for the outer edge of the snowflake. This is the trick. The more curved, and shaped you cut the outer edge, the more elaborate the snowflake shape will be... And the way you described your girls: exactly the way my sisters and I were growing up... which furthers my confoundedness some days..:) Oh I am loving these little glimpses into your holiday traditions…

Bethany: I want the panettone recipe!! Do you have one?

And snowflakes… you can fold one of two ways:

Fold a 8.5×11 piece of paper in half the fat way, then in half again. Keep the creased part towards you. Open the second fold, and then fold in triangular fourths (or more) Cut the raw edges off evenly, then cut again elaborately for the outer edge of the snowflake. This is the trick. The more curved, and shaped you cut the outer edge, the more elaborate the snowflake shape will be…

And the way you described your girls: exactly the way my sisters and I were growing up… which furthers my confoundedness some days..:)

]]> By: Bethany http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/comment-page-1/#comment-10534 Bethany Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:12:09 +0000 http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/#comment-10534 I can't believe the differences between life with little girls and one with little boys. My husband has instilled a love of Legos in Natalie and Sophie, but their favorite things to build are flowering meadows and cutesy grocery stores. They beg me--their mother who lives exclusively in jeans--to buy them dresses. They name each clementine section after a family member and have pretend conversations between them. They tiptoe through the house with improvised fairy wands, and I futilely search our movie collection for unfair gender stereotyping. I think I'd have to lean more toward nature than nurture on the boys love to bang on things / girls love to play house phenomenon. :) We're still in the development stage of family traditions too, but we always have some kind of advent calendar (this year it's Lego!), and we always put up the tree together telling the story behind each ornament. Some of my favorite childhood traditions just aren't possible here, like Christmas parades and candlelight services and driving to look at the holiday lights, but we have adopted the Italian Christmas tradition of panettone for breakfast (a fluffy sweet bread studded with candied fruit that just about makes up for all the missed traditions). Any tips for cutting out snowflakes? Mine always seem to turn out square. :) I can’t believe the differences between life with little girls and one with little boys. My husband has instilled a love of Legos in Natalie and Sophie, but their favorite things to build are flowering meadows and cutesy grocery stores. They beg me–their mother who lives exclusively in jeans–to buy them dresses. They name each clementine section after a family member and have pretend conversations between them. They tiptoe through the house with improvised fairy wands, and I futilely search our movie collection for unfair gender stereotyping. I think I’d have to lean more toward nature than nurture on the boys love to bang on things / girls love to play house phenomenon. :)
We’re still in the development stage of family traditions too, but we always have some kind of advent calendar (this year it’s Lego!), and we always put up the tree together telling the story behind each ornament. Some of my favorite childhood traditions just aren’t possible here, like Christmas parades and candlelight services and driving to look at the holiday lights, but we have adopted the Italian Christmas tradition of panettone for breakfast (a fluffy sweet bread studded with candied fruit that just about makes up for all the missed traditions).
Any tips for cutting out snowflakes? Mine always seem to turn out square. :)

]]> By: Sam http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/comment-page-1/#comment-10532 Sam Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:12:36 +0000 http://www.mytopography.com/2009/12/08/boys-simple-delights/#comment-10532 Love the update on the boys. I know the DNA fairy will probably give me nothing but boys, so I am fully anticipating a house full of ruckus. Heck, even with just one, my house is all about the ruckus! So far, we are still establishing our traditions. Thomas is besotted with our Christmas tree and danced with joy while we put it up. I am just praying he doesn't pull it over on himself. We are pretty determined to wake up on Christmas morning at our own house, instead of spreading ourselves thin travelling between families. And my favorite, favorite thing is the candlelight Christmas Eve service...it's my favorite Christmas moment, singing Silent Night with our candles lit. Love the update on the boys. I know the DNA fairy will probably give me nothing but boys, so I am fully anticipating a house full of ruckus. Heck, even with just one, my house is all about the ruckus!

So far, we are still establishing our traditions. Thomas is besotted with our Christmas tree and danced with joy while we put it up. I am just praying he doesn’t pull it over on himself. We are pretty determined to wake up on Christmas morning at our own house, instead of spreading ourselves thin travelling between families. And my favorite, favorite thing is the candlelight Christmas Eve service…it’s my favorite Christmas moment, singing Silent Night with our candles lit.

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