As you may remember, this year, B decided she didn’t want any gifts for her birthday. Instead, she chose to raise money for charity:water, a fantastic organization that helps developing communities in need build fresh, clean water supplies to enable kids, especially girls, to get an education. She set a goal of $150, hoping that [...]
Saturday, we will be celebrating B’s birthday with a gaggle of children and beloved family members. We will be playing, we will be laughing, we will be decorating cupcakes, we will be eating burgers fresh off the grill (and plenty of potato chips, too, after Wednesday’s chip-buying orgy of awesomeness). We are not opening birthday [...]
With all the gardening love that happens around here, you would think the kids would have had quite enough of visiting the garden centre with Mama, but I am sorry to say, it just ain’t so. They love the garden centre. They love looking at plants. They love identifying things where they can and asking [...]
Can we pretend it is three weeks ago? Can we just completely cut the last three weeks out of the calendar and pretend that I haven’t missed days and days (and weeks!) of blogging? They’ve been good weeks, I can assure you of that! Busy and full of the sort of moments that consume an [...]
Every so often, or rather, almost every week, we drag out some paint of one kind or another and pretend we are artists. It isn’t very hard to do, since of course we are artists, each and every one of us. As Picasso once famously said (if not in these very words), every child is [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to teach your kids to be problem-solvers. Not necessarily world-changing problem solvers, though that would be marvelous, but even just little-problem solvers. In some areas, we are really good at this, but in others… not so much. Every family is much the same, I think. Good at [...]
