Continue Reading Experience-Based Gift Ideas for Kids Experience-based giving seems to be the buzz among my mom friends. No breaking the bank for plastic that will loose their interest… Share this:
Continue Reading Saying Goodbye to the Baby Phase Just this past week, our youngest has gone potty all by herself. Granted, she’s using a plastic imitation from Target (because she… Share this:
Continue Reading What Parenting Has Done to My Definition of an Entertaining Evening I sat on the pillows that were laying on the floor and watched Mr. Coppertop as he assembled our new bed frame…. Share this:
Continue Reading The Real Hunt for Home (Guest Post Shared on Kindred Mom) We are in the market for a house. It sounds fun, but it’s not. Three simple requirements: livable, within the budget, and… Share this:
Continue Reading The Case of the Missing Perspective I recently started to notice strange behavior in my husband. Nothing major, just little things out of the ordinary that have made… Share this:
Continue Reading Compared to Mrs. Carey My sister-in-law gave me an old, novel for my birthday. (The year 1911 to be exact and a copy from the first… Share this:
Continue Reading Teaching Good Manners in an Afternoon While rinsing off the lunch dishes, Jovie said, “Today, my teacher kept asking me to use the magic word…” (long pause) “…Hey… Share this:
Continue Reading Literacy and the Benefits of Poetry My freshman year of college I had to take an academic seminar which was basically a how-to-do-college course. Most of it was… Share this:
Continue Reading What’s so Wrong With Having Heroes? I’m officially one step closer to working myself out of laundry duties…my four-year-old has learned how to fold towels! And not just… Share this:
Continue Reading Charlotte Mason’s Habit Training Wisdom Charlotte Mason, an early educator from the early 1900’s, had a unique outlook on the education of children. She claimed that the… Share this: