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

One hot, humid August afternoon last summer, we joined friends for a last minute get-together at our local AMF Lane. While there I learned about the AMF Kids Bowl Free program, an incredible program that allows all registered children ages 15 and under to bowl 2 FREE! games each day throughout the…
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…
Years ago my Mom presented me with a red spiral bound notebook. On the front, she had written From Mom’s Recipes – Family Favorites Plus Some: Book 1. The notebook was nothing special, just one of my old high-school notebooks that only had a few pages out of it, but the contents were priceless: page…
The first time I mentioned homeschooling to my husband, Patrick, we didn’t have children. For years, I felt inexplicably drawn to homeschooling, and Patrick objected adamantly. I read a stack of books on homeschooling, befriended several homeschooling families, and by the time our boys were of school-age, I had convinced Patrick that homeschooling was something…
I have fond childhood memories of traveling up and down and around the East Coast with my Mom and younger brother, Volksmarching: setting off early in the morning with our most comfortable walking shoes and a little bag of snacks for a 10km (6.2 mile) walk through towns, woods, across college campuses…. One of my…
We’re out of town again this week, and although I have internet access, which is a plus for posting my Making Memories Monday post, I do not know how to scan or upload photos on my father’s computer, so… here is the link-up for this week’s Making Memories Monday post. Go ahead and link up…