Today, my children and I came up with an ingenious plan. Make a nativity scene with legos. No doubt this has been done… I’ll google that when I’m done here. But we were thrilled to have thought of it. We immediately began planning and gathering the pieces we would be needing. How does one make [...]

I found this absolutely marvelous read today. Pigtail Pals: Waking Up Full Of Awesome. ————————– There was a time when you were five years old, and you woke up full of awesome. You knew you were awesome. You loved yourself. You thought you were beautiful, even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks [...]

My family has been trying to slowly replace our tv consumption for other more productive endeavors. To this end, we have obtained some children’s games. We have played Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Hi Ho Cherry-o, and Garanimals 1-2-3. Most games for children are so PAINFUL for adults. Sometimes we have found ourselves reading the directions [...]

I think after my daily duties, the children and I will spend some time coloring to our hearts content. I found some great ideas today. Some Geometric designs -http://www.barbsgalaxy.us/ColoringPages/patterns/Geometrix/index.html And Alphabet doodles – http://geeden.blogspot.com/2011/01/alphabet-doodles.html I think we can write the kids names, doodle and color them in and hang them over their beds. Throw in [...]

Today we had a picnic with the Huffs at Riverside Park. We had a wonderful time with fried chicken, green salad, fresh grapes and juice, followed by a space themed birthday cake for my little man. The kids played and ran and played and ran. As you can see, even Reya made some new friends. [...]

My husband and I are making some changes this week… month… year. Fortunately we were already headed in, what we feel, was the right direction. Garden, Exercise, Scheduling, Family Prayer and Reading. Garden: Our 40′x40′ plot of dirt is taking shape. It is taking us ALOT longer than we thought to get our planting done. [...]