Enjoying calm days at home this week doing a little of this: Homemade playdough with green coloring, peppermint extract and glitter in honor of the holidays! Easy on the eyes and smells like Christmas! Still pondering how to make it work with 3 wannabe helpers… Any tips? There was quite a few shed tears and […]
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Christmas Reading
Last year we did a Christmas countdown by having books for them to unwrap each night leading up to Christmas. This year, they have been clamoring to do it again, so we are doing a countdown until we leave to visit Mima and Pa on the 22nd. In order to break things up a bit, […]
Tradition Driven…
Just a year or two I remember agonizing about creating traditions for my kids. I wanted to find just the right things that my kids would remember and do them in just a way so that they would want to do them the following year. What I’m now finding is that traditions just happen. Kids […]
For Grown-up’s
I love picture books. There is something about beautiful or creative illustrations and a fanciful story that just has me hooked. Today we read one that was a hoot. It mostly went over Xander’s head, but he enjoyed it as well. I couldn’t help but think of my mom and her love of art when […]
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Pilgrim Learning, Part 2
This last Wednesday we had our monthly co-op get together and the theme was Thanksgiving, naturally. After reading, Pilgrim Cat, one of the boys favorite Thanksgiving related books, we did some corn planting of our own, Squanto style. A few goldfish, popcorn kernals, sand and globs of glue later, they proudly showed off their neat rows […]