Celebrating the Birth of a Nation… with a bit of paint and lots of fun!

Temperatures are rising. Talk of camps, vacations, and lazy days ahead can be heard at the park, the grocery store, the soccer field, homeschool co-ops, anywhere there are moms and kids! Summer is near and folks are gearing up for two and a half months without school and the usual manic-pace of classes, homework, and…
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 As homeschooling parents, we work endlessly to ensure our children master the basics of reading, mathematics, and grammar. We allow caterpillars to live in jars on our counter tops and build pyramids…
The Saturday before Easter, the boys built a butterfly house at a local Home Depot Kids Workshop. Today, we took advantage of the beautiful Spring weather and invited a neighbor to join us in painting the houses to attract our colorful, winged friends. Butterflies prefer bright reds, oranges, yellows, and purples, so those are…
Every year, with those words, I’m sent scrambling to pull together the costumes of my boys’ imaginations… and let me tell you, they don’t make it easy. Over the years, with some help from my Mom, we’ve created Henry the Octopus (of Wiggles fame), Caillou and his cat Gilbert, Thomas the Tank Engine (and Percy),…
We’ve made gingerbread houses each year at Christmas-time for years. It’s a highlight of the holiday season for the boys: candy, sugary icing, gingerbread cookies… a likely favorite for any child, right? Traditionally, we purchased a gingerbread kit, complete with precut cookies, tubes of royal icing, and an assortment of colorful candies. These kits worked…
The day before Valentine’s Day is a special day in our home: it’s Patrick’s birthday! (Happy Birthday, dear one!) Pulling together a birthday celebration the day before Valentine’s Day is a bit complicated, to say the least. Having the birthday boy home ALL week due to snow closings made planning a birthday celebration, much less…