The Crafts

Happy first day of school! Two out of four of our girls were chomping at the bit to go to school this year. I almost typed "this fall" but since my weather app says today will be 103 degrees, I went with "year" instead.  To bring a little cheer to the morning we made rainbow pancakes for breakfast. I forgot to take a photo of our efforts this morning so I'm using this month old picture of Natalie. She is the most excited for rainbow pancakes, followed by Maddie. Claudia has to eat too early in order to catch the bus so she missed out, and Kate goes later in the morning. And now you know our full breakfast routine. Ha! Isn't she just so sweet! This photo of Claudia looks blurry or hazy but it's not the quality of the camera, rather the extreme humidity in the air that caused my camera lens to fog up immediately after going outside. Claudia wasn't super excited for me to take a first day of school photo but she played a good sport and we got it done be

Not unlike other families, the Craft crew creates a summer bucket list and often neglects that list until we realize there's only a few weeks left before school starts. We didn't make a physical list this year but it came together more through conversation and traditions, and per usual, we are not going to get it all done. But we are going to have fun trying!  Thanks to Matt, we got ourselves to one of the last Waterloo Bucks baseball games of the season. Kate and Maddie were selected to participate in a cornhole challenge between innings. They tied at zero - zero. Both girls were a wee bit embarrassed by that but they both walked away with coupons for a free appetizer to a restaurant we honestly will never visit because it's not near us. But they had fun in the process. In fairly typical Maddie fashion, she expressed her distaste for baseball to me through the first six innings and then when I was going to take home anyone ready to go, she chose to stay with Matt. Insert e