jennifer patel

Just put a bird on it! I really love Portlandia. I recently thought of two things I thought might be pinworthy. 1. Alex has been invited to several birthday parties this fall. I remember when we threw him a big party for 2 years old because that was his first birthday here. I went all Pinterest out because I wasn't working and well, why not? I like craftiness. We had a family party for 3 and will probably do the same for 4. We're pretty bad at making birthdays a huge, organized party in this house because that would require planning ahead. We are terrible at planning ahead. Until he specifically asks for friends at his birthday, we're going to keep them family. It's easier. Back to my pinworthy idea... He got a lot of presents from people and we didn't open them during the party. They were put under the table and needless to say, with all the little kids running around and the moving of the presents into a closet where we gave them to him a little o...

The weekends are our precious family time. Every Friday night at bed time, I ask Alex, "guess what tomorrow is?" He now yells, "Saturday!" Saturdays are just understood to be the best day of the week. No matter the weather, we find something fun to do and we ALL sleep...sleep in...long nap sleep...and sleep early to bed, even though it's Saturday. Sleep makes the world go round...cheers!