I know that there are currently a million blog posts on activities that you can do with your kiddos at home, but here's one more! When Sully was a few months old, I made this Noah's Ark packet in...
School’s out! For me these words have always ushered in my favorite time of the year. The kids were home and we had lots of unstructured family time. “What’re we gonna do today?” wasn’t usually a problem because there...
My mother hates Halloween. I’ve trick or treated one time in my life and it was before a sleepover with a friend in middle school. I went dressed as an Indian woman and wore a sari because that’s the...
What do two teachers and one stay at home mom choose to do with a half week in the middle of summer? Take a mom and kid beach trip, of course! A mom and kid-cation, if you will! I...
Getting outside is a must for this mama, but recently I’ve felt the need to get out and away a bit further, a bit more remote.
(I did spend a summer living in the Rocky Mountains in a teepee in...
Whew! I don't know about y'all, but if I read one more email or Facebook article with something deep about this virus, I may curl up in a ball and cry. It's such a delicate balance of being proactive...
If you know nothing about kids, you may still pick up that they don’t have a solid grasp on time. And why should they, really? An adult is in charge of telling them when to eat, go to bed,...
How to create a flower suncatcher.
This past week we collected and flowers and leaves from our garden and in the wild. We thought it would be so nice to have these beauties hanging in the window! We really enjoyed...
As an intern at Opelika High School, I taught a unit on bird identification. My mentor teacher in biology had twenty slides of birds common to our area and required his students to learn to identify them by sight....
We are all living in uncertain times where we can’t go and explore or socialize as freely as we once did. We may need some kids activities to keep ours minds off this pandemic.
Our kids LOVE to be active...
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“Attitude Reflects Leadership”
The movie Remember the Titans resonates with me on many levels. Like Coach Bill Yoast's daughter, I was nine years old when integration was...
