From the Archives: September 2012 Another Table Time favorite: For writing practice [mailerlite_form form_id=11] Making some pictures or just.... Making a mess! Ingredients: * Cheap shaving cream *Table Keeps them busy for a good, long while and makes them smell pretty good too! :) [mailerlite_form form_id=11] ...
Creative Education
I don’t want to forget….
From The Archives: July 2010 These cheeks and those eye lashes and this beautiful mess and that smile and this face her determination and focus and those little, busy hands and that sometimes I wish I had more hands that confidence and this joy her care free love for life her sense of style how she doesn't care who's around...she WILL dance and those ...
The Days are Long – Video From Gretchen at The Happiness Project…
The Days are Long But the Years are Short. I loved this reminder from Gretchen Rubin. ...
So Much Stuff! The Day Getting Rid of It Became Really Hard
From the Archives: June 2010 This is from a series of blog posts I asked my wise and wonderful cousins to do years ago. Enjoy! So Much Stuff Lots of stuff seems to come with having a family. With six children in ours, we have plenty of it! Some of it seems to multiply on its own. I could swear our stuffed animals have their own breeding program. A Buy Back Program One day I decided I'd had enough of errant Legos, mismatched toy ...
How Much Is Enough to Require Honesty?
This is the first of a handful of guest posts from almost ten years ago. Time flies. This is from my dear cousin (and former college roommate) Olivia Cobian. You can read about her inspiring life HERE . Now on to the post: Drive-Thru Test At the Wendy's drive thru on Friday, they gave us back an extra nickel. Five cents. I hesitated for a moment. Does it really matter? Will anybody care if I return the money that doesn't belong ...
Audrey Hepburn’s Secrets to Great Beauty…
Audrey Hepburn's Secrets to Great Beauty I found this years ago and just loved it. Audrey Hepburn often quoted this during interviews and lectures. She also read it to her children on the last Christmas before she died in 1993. For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a ...
Just a Day in March -Scavenger Hunt Idea
"It was on of those March days, when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." - Charles Dickens Some drawing time... [mailerlite_form form_id=4] Time for a scavenger hunt! Ah, March! [mailerlite_form form_id=4] ...