Tag Archives: Mr. Hockey

Back to school, Going to the Zoo and Just Having Fun

It’s been about a month, so I figured I should do a nice family update! It’s been a bit quieter of a month with school going back in and things getting back to normal around here after the summer months. … Continue reading

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Spelling… With Creativity!

  Electric Lady HATES any form of homework. I know most kids don’t enjoy it, even say they dislike it but for her… it is totally true. She jumps up and down, has a tantrum, starts being saucy at even … Continue reading

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Experiments with Cupcakes

  I have been doing most of our crafts and science type of activities with the littles lately and Mr. Hockey requested that I do something with him, so I though we’d make cupcakes. However, they wouldn’t be ordinary cupcakes! … Continue reading

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Pop Up Insects

We didn’t get to much crafting this week but did make some cute little insects! While cleaning the basement storage area, I found an old Ross kit – 3D Pop It Fuzzy Insects and decided to let the kids have … Continue reading

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Fancy Christmas lists and Funky Christmas Garland

I am linking up to Adventures in Mommy Land. To join, or see what others are doing, click on the image above. I get the Christmas bug every November. It is not uncommon for me to put up the tree … Continue reading

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Killer Cereal Box

Mr. Hockey decided to dress up as a Cereal Killer this year for Halloween. We tried painting a big box yellow, but the colour didn’t really stick (I used tempera and should have used Acrylic). Hubbers then had the great … Continue reading

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Trick-or-Treat, Princesses, First jobs, a Grumpy Face and Hockey Fun.

While back East, my Mother In Law mentioned that I haven’t been posting pictures on  facebook as often anymore. I hadn’t really noticed that my weekly photo dumps had turned into monthly and then bi-monthly photo dumps but she was … Continue reading

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Perplexing Problem

Mr. Hockey has always loved school. Now… he hates it. Mr. Hockey has never gotten in trouble at school. Now… he is always in trouble. I just spent the last 3 days dedicating ALL my time to helping Mr. Hockey … Continue reading

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Friday Family – Little to Big

This is a post all about Mr. Hockey and just how much he has grown in the past 5 years! We met Mr. Hockey when he was a cute little 5 year old: He moved in with us at 6. … Continue reading

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Saturday Fun – Preparing for Battle

Elasto-Boy and Mr. Hockey decided to have a “pretend” nerf battle tonight. It had to be pretend because I was putting the baby to bed shortly and … well … Nerf Guns are NOT the quietest of toys! They cleaned … Continue reading

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