The Skarin Family Blog

The last couple of day have been rough ones in our house.  Thursday night Evan and I came down with the stomach bug just before 9 pm.  I wasn’t feeling well while I was making dinner but I thought maybe I was just too hungry.  Then Evan didn’t feel like eating and I thought it was because he was really...

Some games never get old… Peek-A... ...BOO!!!

We celebrated the end of 2012 and rang in 2013 as we usually do - at Auntie Karin and Uncle Dan’s house with lots of good food and drinks and great friends and family!  NYE celebrations with kids are a bit different than our NYE celebrations without kids but I wouldn’t trade my boys just for one night of paying...

Recently in the mail we received a picture of Auntie Kristina and Hannah inside a wolf den, howling like and calling the wolves.  While Evan and Daddy were playing in the snow today, they did the snowy version.  After playing in the snow for almost two hours, it was time for Evan’s first mug of hot chocolate in the Santa...

It has been a busy week with lots of trip back and forth to RI but we have had lots of good reasons to make the drive.  Some of mommy’s good friends were home for the holidays…Patience from Switzerland, Ben from Thailand and Leah from NYC (she didn’t have to travel quite as far as Patience and Ben!).  We also...

As 2012 comes to a close, you might ask if it was a good year.  I think so.  We had a wonderful year, filled with amazing experiences and milestones.  In case you missed any of it or want to go back and relive some of it, here are the highlights. We started 2012 with a surprise trip to Florida to...

Christmas was, as it always is, busy and full of good food, great company and lots of spoiling!  We always try not to get too crazy but without fail it always happens.  I think the best sign of this was about halfway through gift opening on Christmas Day when Sean said “No, I’m good” when we told him it was...

We have significantly scaled back our Christmas cookie operation.  So much so that Bruce and Evan were making the sugar cookies on Christmas Eve, as if there weren’t enough things going on already! (which will hopefully never happen again!)  We still found time to make a few different varieties and had a very good helper along the way.  I know...

Around 5 o’clock tonight, after a very lazy day, the phone rang.  It was Micaela, our babysitter’s, mom.  Micaela was heading out to do some shopping and was going to swing by with a few gifts for us and the boys.  How nice!  Micaela started babysitting for us this fall and Evan loves her.  She does projects with Evan and...

Santa came to Millbury tonight.  He rode by on the fire truck like he does every year, making sure that he knows where all the good little boys and girls live.  We ran outside in the cold so that we could see him, wave and make sure he knew where our two good little boys live.  Based on the quality...