{pretty, happy, funny, real}

~ {pretty, happy, funny, real} ~

Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!

Only two weeks until the movers come! I’m firmly in denial, which is an easier place to be when someone else is doing the packing for you. Soon I’m going to start thinking seriously about planning and packing up the car for our month on the road. (I have lots of ideas for the kids and the internet gave me more, but if you have any great tips, you should tell me! Pippo and Molly are pretty good travelers, but Nora is at a sort of awkward age — too old to just nap through it all and too young to be easily entertained)

While we avoid thinking about moving, we spend our days alternating between playing in the water outside (it’s generally too hot to do much else) and making fun messes inside. The kids have been playing up a storm, and I’ve been sewing. Because obviously, when you’re a few short weeks from moving halfway across the country, the rational thing to do is get started on some baby quilts, crib sheets, and toddler clothes. (Currently, this romper cut out and waiting to be sewn together.)

(Yes, they are sharing a chair. Personal space, smersonal space.)

We’re in a serious origami zone right now.

Pippo found instructions in a magazine for making a paper cup, and he folded several dozen for himself and Molly to use for rinsing out their mouths after brushing their teeth. I ordered him this book, which comes with 24 sheets of origami paper and instructions for a bunch of easy projects. For $2 and not having to leave the house to find it, I’d say that’s pretty good. We tried getting a few books out of the library, too, but the directions weren’t nearly clear enough for him to follow, even though the projects weren’t too hard.

Of course, we quickly worked through that paper and I ended up going all in with a pack of 500 sheets. Pippo was so excited that he declared the day they arrived a holiday. He’s been diligently folding sheet after sheet, with no signs of tiring yet. (I went through a big origami phase when I was younger, so I totally get it. I still love joining in!) Molly has started making her own “omagamee things” too, and they keep them all in a box (now a box and a bag or two) under Pippo’s bed.