Trish’s Blog

It’s Quiet Here…

…unless you count the Lego Star Wars noise coming from the TV and random declarations coming from the 17-month-old. I’ve got two kids here and two kids at camp. It feels very weird. I will be retrieving one of the campers tonight, but for the time being, it’s very quiet here now. No one is [...]

Secret Sister Gifts

Sarah’s getting ready to go to her first Girls’ Camp ever. I always thought you had to be 14 years old (Mia Maid in Young Women) to go, but she’s 12 (Beehive) and she’s going, so either the rules have changed, the rules are different for our stake, or I was never paying enough attention [...]

Freaky Food Dinner

I saw this on FriendFeed and thought it would be fun for the kids. They were pretty excited at first, but as it turns out, they can handle doing this for one package of hot dogs, but two packages is pushing their attention span. Seth was the first to fold because for six years he [...]

Pottery Paint Chocolate

My friend Laurie set up a Girls’ Night Out at The Mudpie Company and brought her amazing brownies. She could have set us up in the middle of a parking lot somewhere and the brownies would have made it a special night. I love that she also brought grapes. She’s crazy healthy, does yoga, and [...]

National Donut Day

Happy National Do(ugh)nut Day! No matter how you spell it, you need to have one or ten today.  Krispy Kremes is giving them away for free, Dunkin’ Donuts is giving them away with a purchase. Neither establishments are in close proximity to us. Shipley’s Donuts, however, is. In fact, there are two in our neighborhood, [...]