Valentine Decorations- My Two Sweethearts!!

"Who wants to see the Valentine Decorations???" was all it took to get Logan and Louise running for the box in the dining room. These two are my most enthusiastic decorators, and of course they really can't remember them from last year. Everything coming out of the box is so exciting and so new to them.
They each had their favorites and sometimes found it hard to share.

And of course there was a mishap or two. But it's worth it to let them get excited and learn to handle the decorations carefully (well, most of the time) and to help clean up when we need to!!!

Their favorite was putting the hearts on the Valentine Tree! They were both so careful, and worked cooperatively!

These are my Valentine Sweethearts! Next week we're going to do an art project! Creating Valentine cards.....do you think they're ready for that??? Am I???

My Muffins and Tea Boys

Carl and Gus spent an afternoon last week with me because Louise was sick and Jenn and she needed naps! This Gramma needed some fun with her "big boys"...so off to my house we went! We had just read a story about the "new age Red Riding Hood" where her Grandma opens a bakery and Granny, the wolf and Little Red run the place. The book shared the special recipe (with its very own "secret ingredient") for Granny's Muffins. So Carl, Gus, and I got busy sifting, stirring and spooning muffins. Gus was in charge of WET and Carl in charge of DRY. When we finally got them together we had a wonderful batch of muffins ready to go into the oven.

Grammas have the wonderful advantage of Tea Parties with their grandchildren. Not too fancy, but just right to practice some table manners. We set our places in my new heated porch and soon were enjoying our Kid Tea (as Gus named it) with special Granny muffins. The tea cups and plates belonged to their Great-Grandma Florence....so this was a very Special Gramma Tea!

I'm Coming Back!!

Yes, after almost a year's break from blogging, I'm going to hit "Re-Start" and get going. It's not that fun things haven't happened with my grandchildren...it's that I just couldn't fit in the time. Not sure what all was going on...But it's 2010 and it's starting all over again!!

I might just do some review posts from last year. Of course I have wonderful photos of all the fun times I've had with the 6 wonderful kids that call me Gramma!! And this year will mark the addition of 2 more...baby BOYS!! More about that later.

So if you've been checking back and almost given up on me--keep trying and you'll see results!! 'Coz this gramma is "back to Blogging!!"