Category: Time to Celebrate

Last week I had a genius idea: have Honeybun make a book!  I know, not that ingenious but one of the 1st grade Common Core standards for Language Arts entails “use a variety of digital …

My distress over the loss of Thanksgiving goes much beyond decorations.  I want to decorate my house for Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is important to me and my family and I want it to be important …

The girls’ cute little hand turkeys from our first Thanksgiving in Ireland are still some of my favorite kid-made treasures. This year I decided to try a new method of hand AND foot turkeys I …

Last year I shared my “No-Thank-You” list of Christmas presents I did NOT want for my kids.  I have to admit that making my list was harder this year.  It looks like toy manufacturers really …

A few weeks back I was sitting at the kitchen table with the kids having lunch one day when Honeybun told me something that I wasn’t ready for: “Mommy, I have a loose tooth!”  While …

Last year I shared what our family traditions are for Thanksgiving in my Thanksgiving Day post.  This year will be our first year staying in Florida for Thanksgiving and though I’m not sure exactly where …

I love going out and I love getting dressed up. And while the getting ready part is not always the easiest with kids around (hence my chronicle “Out Without Kids”), it’s always worth the hassle …

As a young child, I loved Halloween.  I loved planning my costume and getting dressed up.  I loved wearing my costume everywhere: to school, for trick-or-treating and even in ballet class.  I loved trick-or-treating and …

I’ve been wanting to do another Day in the Life post since starting homeschool.  I was waiting for a “normal” day but things kept coming up.  Then I realized there is no typical day in our homeschool …

Looking for an easy Halloween project for the kids?  Something quick, easy, mess free? I’ve got the perfect kids pumpkin decorating project! This weekend we went to a local farm/pumpkin patch.  Among the chaos and …