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 […]
Breakfast Bliss
100% enjoyment and interaction with breakfast
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 […]
Boys at Play
For some reason, watching little kids lost in imaginative play fascinates me. I could sit and watch my kids play all day long. Well, if it weren’t for the fact that I actually need to get boring but necessary things like cleaning done… Recently, Keegan re-created Noah’s Ark with the blocks and was having the animals […]
Live History!
The bigger boys and I went to the annual American Heritate Festival this last weekend! It was a celebration of our heritage and the sacrifice required so that we can be free today! The boys LOVED getting to see the soldiers from so many different era’s. For all of Keegan’s bravado and obsession with the […]