Categories
Education

Share The Joy Of Reading

It’s no secret that our family loves to read. We have four 3 shelf bookcases jam packed with books; two for the boys and two for our books. And that doesn’t include the two boxes of books that Grandma Deb picked up at a yard sale a few weekends ago. Guess we need another bookcase, […]

Categories
Entertainment

Bust Summertime Boredom

Primrose Schools, the leader in educational child care, recommends encouraging imaginative play and having a plan in place to keep children’s minds engaged during the summer months. Studies show that without stimulation, children can lose up to 60 percent of what they learned during the school year. That’s why Dr. Mary Zurn, Vice President of Education for Primrose, has […]

Categories
Education Family Life

SafetyTat – Temporary Safety Tattoos

The Original SafetyTats are similar to other temporary tattoos. The one we choose was the Non-verbal Tat with our phone number specifically for Little T. I was thrilled when I saw the Non-verbal Tat because being non-verbal is often a left out condition with medical safety items. The tattoo went on as easily as other […]

Categories
Education

Mom, Can We Do A Project? Why, Yes We Can!

I was thrilled when I was selected for the Glue Dots Summer Bonding Project through TwitterMoms. Drama King is a huge arts and craft kid. He loves coloring, painting, and making projects. You can’t imagine the look on his face when I told him we were going to try out a new glue process. You […]

Categories
Everything Else

Monday Mingle – Our Busy Weekend

Saturday, Tim and I reorganized our coupon dividers and we’re contemplating moving to a binder system. It’s getting rough to flip through 20-30 coupons to find the one coupon we know is in the divider. We have three 13 slot file containers, two dedicated to grocery items and one dedicated to non-grocery items. On top […]

Categories
Entertainment

What’s On My Mind? Smartphones

You’d probably be surprised to learn that Tim and I do not own smartphones. Yes, our tech savvy house does not own a single smartphone. I guess I should also mention that we do not tweet, text, check social network sites, email or browse the web while we are out and about. Maybe we don’t […]