Today I took the day off and stayed with my kids at home. This is their last day of holidays because Monday the 2009/2010 school year begins.

I invited my two nephews to spend the afternoon in my house so I had four children here. They spent most of the afternoon playing in the pool so…

Last week we went to Lisbon

First we eat on the Vasco da Gama and then we visited the Oceanario de Lisboa. We had been there with my son 7 years ago and we wanted to show him and my daughter the beauties there are in the ocean.

We had this visit…

Although the sun is shining and it’s hot, the wind blows too much to go to the beach. So, holidays at home.

This weekend I was having a conversation with a neighbor about how much we need holidays and where to go and she asked why don’t I go to the south of the country to…

The first holiday week is over. I must confess we sometimes have a hard time with the kids because they are so stubborn but overall everything went smoothly.

Monday we went to a slide & splash park and the kids loved it. It has those big slides that my son loves and, without getting tired he…

Having a swimming pool at home means a lot of fun. But…there is always a but eh?

Having a swimming pool at home also means that I might have a lot of unexpected guests like neighbors, family members or my kids friends.

Having a swimming pool at home means that my kids have fun without…

My son drove me into playing Tribal Wars. He loves the game and wanted me to join. I must confess I was not very attracted to the game because I think thought it was very boring. He ended up forcing me to sign up and now I’m playing Tribal Wars every day.

Basically…

As promised here is our Christmas Tree. No gifts under it because we don’t trust the kids.  On the floor we have the too chocolate calendars that they check every day for the daily chocolate. The decorations are the same from the previous years and we decided not to spend money buying new…

I had a very stressful weekend. The kids are very demanding when it comes to my attention. I thought that the older the more independent but it turns out be the contrary.

My kids want me to be a constant presence in their lives when it comes to play games or just watch TV.…

Another gift my son wants for Christmas is Scrabble. From Wikipedia:

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear

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As soon as I can get animation movies for my kids we watch them. The last one we watched was: Horton Hears a Who! from 20th Century Fox Animation.

A real cute Elephant living in jungle Nool starts hearing voices from a clover. He notices that the voices come from a small speck of dust…

The Christmas Tree is up. I find it quite early but the kids were talking about it all the time so Dear Dad went to the basement yesterday and brought the tree and all the ornaments for it.

I know how stressful it can be when my husband is trying to build or do something with…

So, how was your Halloween?

In Portugal Halloween is not a tradition but we are getting U.S.A. influences and most schools are adopting the “Witch Day” activities but still without costumes. Costumes are only used for specially organized parties mostly in discos and bars. But for our children the special day is on November 1st.

November…