Back in the Old Days

Our house has been busy with school projects, and I don't really mind...it is fun for me too, it brings back the memories and gives me and the boys some fun time together. I like it when I am able to help them with homework and we can enjoy time together.
Lately it seems that as our kids get older they bring up a lot of the "when you were a kid" or "is that how they did it when you were younger?"... I find it humorous because we did the same thing to our parents... you know "back in the old days".

So kace has been learning about the Colonies and the Revolutionary War. For a project they had to write articles as if they were writing the headlines for that time period and to obviously show what they learned. So a trick to making the papers look like they are older than dirt, or as kace put it 'these look like the real Declaration of Independence- did they have this kind of paper when you were growing up'....uhhh no, my child, but thanks for making me feel old... yet again:)
I was given a ginormous box of Lipton tea. I am not a fan of the regular stuff, but didn't feel like being rude so I accepted it, little did I know how handy it would be... I made a big cup of the worlds strongest tea(10 tea bags to be exact). I let the tea sit for a bit then we proceeded to yellow our paper.






Of course there was strict parent supervision in adding the finishing touch of the burnt edges... (it was I who played with the lighter the entire time, and even burnt myself a time or two, inhaled a few paper ashes and had a burnt smell in my house for 2 days.) Totally fun...just don't tell the boys;)