While up at the cabin last month, I decided to take each of my boys out for some special one-on-one time before Greta is born and life gets a little crazy. Do any of you do that with your children? I remember my mom taking each of us girls out for a special ‘date’ each summer. […]
Plans Gone Awry…
Sometimes the best of plans still go awry… That was most certainly the case at my home last week. My sister had served one of my favorite chicken salads in little napa cabbage ‘boats’ a couple of weeks ago and I fell in love with them. Cabbage has been the big thing I’ve craved this […]
Labor Day Learning Fun
{whistle while you work} I hope you all are having a fabulous Labor Day weekend. My boys are so very excited to have their daddy home for an extra day this weekend… As we enjoy time together as a family, we also plan to take some time to learn about the origins of Labor Day and […]
Broaching 9-11 with the kids…
With the 10th anniversary of 9-11 quickly approaching, I’ve found myself pondering how much to address when talking to my kids about this. Since we are ‘out west’ and given that we don’t have the evening news on, there hasn’t been a whole lot of exposure that my children have naturally had. If my children were any […]
Goals are Meant to be Held Lightly…
(a just because pic. My birthday boy.) Well, at least when it comes to goals we set for our children… Why? Their development and life’s circumstances are simply unpredictable. I’m always so tempted to have very lofty goals for both myself and my children. It is one thing to set them for myself. It is […]
an impromptu lesson in physics
What started out as a skip counting by two’s lesson for the 5 year old with the marbles quickly turned into exploration-playtime by all three boys… I ran upstairs to put some things away and came down to find them full of giggles, wonder and excitement. They had discovered the glories of centripetal force as they rapidly […]