Mom and Pop Place is excited to be part of the Roosevelt Holiday Home Tour again this year. Have you seen the signs and posters for the tour? It’s a community fund-raiser put on by Roosevelt Elementary School in Neenah. Roosevelt is where my kids go, so you know it’s the best school ever. Sorry.
Every December, Roosevelt hosts a Holiday Home Tour showcasing 4 festively decorated Neenah homes. Local designers and florists and businesses donate decorations and time to create incredible holiday displays inside and out. People come to enjoy the holiday spirit, to get inspiration for their own holiday decorations, and to snoop through other people’s incredible houses (let’s be real, here). No matter what, it’s a fabulous event. So many people work so hard to pull it off. Funds raised go towards our school enrichment fund, of course, but a larger chunk goes right back to the community through Best Friends of Neenah-Menasha and the Neenah-Menasha Emergencey Society.
Last year, Mom and Pop Place was invited to help decorate one of the homes. It was the home of 5 children and we helped the designers create some toy displays. It was a lot of fun! This year, we’re more deeply involved. I’ll be decorating 3 spaces in one of the homes and running a holiday boutique during the show!
You should come to the Home Tour! It’s on Friday December 4th from 10AM-2PM and 4PM-8PM. Tickets are on sale here at Mom and Pop Place for $15 in advance. Mom and Pop PLace will be decorating the Kearny Home at 103 Limekiln Road. The homes and the displays will be amazing!
Here’s my baby, all set for the first day of kindergarten! He’s smiling so hard his face might explode. Yesterday was his first day of school. I have to say, we were both very calm about it. Gage was excited, but not overly so. Not enough to be nervous or wakeful the night before. He knows the school and the teacher very well from his brother going there. Gage feels like it’s already “his” school. He knows the building and the routine. He walked right in with his class and hung up his coat and took his seat. I lingered a little while to soak it all in. But, I realized he was ready for school to start. I waited until another parent left. (I didn’t want to be the first mom to leave. How heartless……..) Then I gave him a high-five, snapped this picture, wished the teacher good luck and left. For the first time in 6 years of first-days-of-school, I didn’t cry. I almost choked up over that fact. Are my boys so grown up that first-day-of-school doesn’t make me cry?
Here’s my little guy busy at work at his Art Stand. He was inspired by our neighbors, who hosted a successful Lemonade stand last week. He and his brother sat in the yard and watched cars stop and give the neighbors money for lukewarm Kool-Aid. It seemed like magic. Money for nothing?! My kids like money. They instantly started begging to have a sale themselves. Kool-Aid was not an option: we don’t have any Kool-Aid. They wanted to sell their broken toys: that seemed less than classy to me.
Mighty Builder Construction Set from Melissa and Doug. Have you seen these? I LOVE them. You get all the tools and wooden parts you need to build your very own cool vehicle. We have the fire truck and garbage truck and the tow truck. My son got one last Christmas and he loves displaying the race car that he built himself.
