For the next several days I will be posting about the World Congress of Families. This year it is being held in Sydney, Australia.  Remember how we helped to raise funds for Angela to attend? She is sending daily reports of the presentations, interviews she is able to have, and more. I am excited to share with you what she is experiencing. There are so many around the world - politicians, religious leaders, community organizers, trained professionals, and others - who are dedicated to defending the family. I will try to post each day's events in order so you are not reading them backwards as you scroll down. I have broken up Angela's summaries into several posts so it isn't overwhelming to see a HUGE post. Remember, if you have any questions you would like her to ask when she gives her interviews, leave them in the comments and I will pass them along to her.

Goodies for our Easter Baskets

Next week Mr. Ferrero Rocher and I are taking off leaving the kids behind and spending five days all to ourselves. I'm very excited but there is a lot that needs to get done before we take off. One of the top priorities is getting Easter baskets put together so I don't have to scramble to do them when we get back next Friday. So here's a peek at what's going in the children's baskets this year. See if you can spot a theme.

1. Once I saw these fake eggs over at My Ice Cream Diary I knew I had to make some for my little chicks.

2. Tradition holds we must include Cadbury Creme Eggs.



3. I don't particularly care for the sugar laden colored PEEPS but my girls love them. It's a good thing they come in so many different colors. I hate hearing "so and so took my PEEP!" Having different colors keeps that from happening.

4. Nature Journals. I've been inspired reading about the Green Hour Challenge on various blogs. I've always wanted to start nature journals with the girls as part of our curriculum. Now is the time! I ordered some plain chipboard covered journals from here. We will each decorate our own to take with us on our nature walks.

5. In order to draw what we see on our walks I'm including real graphite drawing pencils.

6. Colored pencils are also in the baskets so we can add a touch of color to our drawings. My favorite are Prismacolor pencils.

7. National Audubon Western Region Bird Identification Book - so we can learn to identify all the species in our area.

8. National Audubon Wildflower Identification book s o I can finally learn the names of those prickly plants that grow along our fence line.

9. I am designing satchels for each girl to carry their nature journals, pencils, and identification books with us on our nature walks. The satchels will have individual slots for the pencils much like a crayon roll.

10. We all love to garden. A variety of seed packets will be tucked in here and there.




11. Somehow between last summer and now we seem to have lost most of our gardening gloves. They are a must for keeping hands blister and dirt free.



12. I love these Easter Egg Sidewalk chalks from Skip to My Lou.




13. Of course I have to include a lot of chocolate candy. DUH!
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12 comments:

  1. This is a great blog- I will have to check this out again! I guess it was the word chocolate that pulled me over!

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  2. sounds like fun baskets for your kids! Happy T-13!

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  4. I just found hard bound sketch journals for my girls at Fred Meyer! I'm so excited about them because I really dislike the ones that are wirebound. They get all dinged up with all our adventures!

    Your baskets sound amazing!

    Anne

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  5. Sounds like tons of fun! I love the nature journal idea! Lucky little kids!! :)

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  7. Thanks for the link and for liking the eggs!

    I had to laugh about the peeps. I color code the eggs but I haven't got to doing it to the peeps yet =)

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  8. Your kids are going to be thrilled!

    I better start really planning what I am going to be putting in my kids baskets. Cadbury Eggs are a must. I love those too.

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  9. What wonderful basket ideas! There will be happy children in your home on Easter for sure!

    I hope you and DH have a great time! Sounds lovely to be able to get away for a few days.

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  10. You always have such clever ideas. Seriously, do you have to work at them or do they just come to you?

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  11. I can't wait to serve the fake eggs up on April Fool's Day!

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  12. I can't wait to serve the fake eggs up on April Fool's Day!

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Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done. ☺ There, don't you feel better?

Please leave a comment! I enjoy hearing your thoughts, whether you agree with me or not. If we all agreed on everything how boring would that be? Worse than eating white chocolate, because it's fake. So be real, be yourself.

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