A summer scavenger hunt is not only fun, they’re educational, too! It’s easy to get creative to make up your own, or modify any of these to make it fit for your area and the age of your child. For older ones you will want to make it harder and for younger children make it…
April’s showers bring May’s flowers…  Isn’t that how the old nursery rhyme goes? Well, I can sure agree with that statement this year! We have had so many rainy days this April and sometimes I let my kids just veg on their iPods or watch t.v. But just because it’s raining outside doesn’t mean you…
Since our Spring Break (which starts next week) looks like it’ll be a little very wet and challenging to do things outside, I’ve been working on some fun things to do inside (maybe they will even learn a little too!). School may be out, but science experiments are still fun – especially when you can…
This post may contain affiliate links. I love Halloween! I really do. But, even as a kid it wasn’t just about the candy, I loved to dress up in costumes. And guess what? I still do! For quite a few years I thought I “had to be a grown up” and just stick to dressing…
Ack! I can’t believe this day is here! First day of school. Well it certainly felt like fall this morning, cold and rainy, but these kids were troopers and sat on the front stoop so I could get some first day pics. It wasn’t easy though, some thought they were too old for this tradition…
So, a new school year has come and with it brings, of course, a whole new year of packing lunches. I know we are a bit later at starting school than a lot of places (my kids don’t start till the 6th) but these are good suggestions for inspiration for all year long too. This…
Just thought I’d do a little December recap of our family happenings around Christmas. Above you can see we are in our holiday best 😉 At the beginning of the month my youngest two tested for their next belt level in Tae kwon do and they both passed! Gabe got his gold belt… and Cadence…
I can’t believe it’s been three weeks already! The last post I did at our old blogspot blog is about how we got some chicks, you can check that out here. They kind of look like gawky teenagers, half fluff and half feathers 🙂 So cute! Hard to believe this was a few short weeks…