Some families take their kids to a farm where they ride hay wagons out to a pumpkin patch and pick their pumpkins right from the vine. We’ve done that with our kids many times, but not this year. This year we took the kids on a car ride to a…
I love to organize. Seriously! There’s something satisfying about starting with a huge jumbled mess and sorting, tossing, boxing and labeling until it’s a neat, organized, usable space. It makes me happy. Our game closet was one of my projects: Every time you opened the door something fell out…
When we moved to Wisconsin over eleven years ago we needed a high chair for Jo-Bear to replace our old one that had died and been left behind. Auntie Elle came to the rescue; first lending, then giving us their high chair. How I loved that high chair! The…
I did something really stupid last week, but I won’t tell you until you promise not to laugh… Promise? Pinky swear! Last Thursday night I was getting ready for bed and thinking about all the errands I had to run the next day. I’d taken Friday off…
It’s amazing how quickly a “little” project can turn into something monstrous, like Teacher’s plan to finish painting the garage. Last summer Teacher spent countless hours painting the house, and managed to paint the two sides of the garage that are in the play yard too. Of course my dad…
I attended my first Valley AEYC Mini-Conference in 2000. I ejoyed it so much I offered to help plan the next one, and have been co-chair of the conference since. This year our theme was “Creating the Future,” which was a really fun theme to plan. The day started…
What happens when five girls who have been best friends for the past eleven years get together to swap clothes? Lots of laughs, silliness, and fun! No, I wasn’t invited, but Princess borrowed my camera to take photos. First: the clothes. That’s a lot of clothes! Wait,…
Last week I wondered if the CPSC’s attack on slings would result in the end of babywearing. As I wrote I thought of our family’s experience with babywearing. As I said last week, Teacher and I were babywearing parents before we knew there was an official name for it. It…
Teacher and I were babywearing parents before we even knew the term existed, and have used some type of sling or carrier with each of our children. That’s why I’m so upset by the news I heard yesterday: Babywearing is under attack by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. …
We recently did a Teddy Bear theme in the daycare, with a Teddy Bear picnic as the grand finale. Of course we had to have Teddy Bear cookies too; how could we not? This recipe is advertised as the “best ever” chocolate cut-out cookies and I have to agree! They’re…
