(photo credit) During the final summer in the ’90’s, this idealistic romantic learned a difficult lesson. It was my summer in Spain and since I was living in Seville, it seemed only fitting to attend a bullfight at one of the oldest and most important arena’s in the world, El Plaza de Toros de la […]
Inspired Learning
Exploring China
On our trip around the world, we are attempting to sweep through Asia. It is such a diverse continent, that we chose just a few countries to look at in depth: China, India and Israel. I just keep reminding myself that our purpose it to provide them an overview. It is so hard to not […]
Food sculptures
All of this talk of food, nutrition and teaching our children, reminded me of something my sister had written a while back. She has graciously agreed to ‘guest post’ here. What a powerful lesson in modeling to our children and yet also holding expectations lightly and allow them to express themselves artistically in an open-ended, […]
Green Means Go!
Every once in a while, we unearth a true gem of a book. Eat Healthy, Feel Great is one of them. It explains the nuts and bolts of nutrition in a way that has my kids begging for broccoli, literally. After our first read through of the book, the boys were hooked. Every meal, every trip to […]
Germ Prevention
With flu season quickly approaching and the boys recent interest in nutrition, we thought we’d revisit basic hand-washing technique and help them understand WHY it is so important. So here you go. We have been working towards keeping sickness at a minimum this year. So I jumped at the chance to use this as an opportunity to […]
Quality Matters
My middle one tip-toed downstairs. He’s the first one up from nap-time. In his usual tiny voice, he asks to paint. I smile big as I remember new watercolors tucked away. My mom had purchased some quality watercolors for each set of grand kids. My previous experience has been with walmart watercolors, but I know what […]