• American Girl Units for Summer

    Summer School Fun

    Can Summer School Be FUN ?!?!? YES !!! Keep everyone’s minds active and excited about learning… but at the same time enjoying the lazy, hazy days of SUMMER when the living should be EASY!  Think everyone curled up listening to these GREAT books…. or packing a picnic to take to your favorite big tree  (or park, or beach, or wherever you love to hang out in the summer!) and spending the afternoon reading together! THEN continue the fun with all kinds of hands-on projects based on these stories.   Recipes, dioramas, crafts, science experiments and LOTS of totally FUN ideas ! All planned out for you too!   SEE I told you this…

  • thanksgiving activities for families

    Gratitude Builders For Kids of All Ages

    ~Gratitude Builders ~         For Families “The root of joy is gratefulness…It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”  ― David Steindl-Rast After a bit of a bumpy week, I want to be flooded with gratitude! Truth be told, I’m thinking about those sweet faces in the picture above, and all the friends I am missing from the time we lived in Peru. I know I need to turn the melancholy feeling toward gratitude & I’m hoping in digging out some fun ideas to share this week, I’ll do just that! ‘Tis the season to reflect on all we have to…

  • Spider Fun!

    SUPER SCARY SPIDER FUN ! Eeeeeeeeek ! SPIDERS!   Fields of Daisies Friday Favorites….Spider Fun. Yep.  I’m doing it.  But it’s a stretch y’all. For anyone who knows me, it will come as no surprise when I say spiders are NOT my favorite. Not on Fridays, not on Mondays, not on any day !!! Just in case you’re new to Friday Favorites, and wondering what it’s all about… After finding myself feeling a bit burnt out, with a bad case of the blahs one day, I came up with Friday Favorites.  I announced to my children we were going to celebrate Fridays each week- TGIF!  Junk food for dinner and a…

  • Friday Favorite !

    IT’S FRIDAY !!! Now try not to get the Friday song stuck on repeat in your head all day long. 🙂 You’re welcome. Anyhow, for me Friday means the beginning of the weekend…Yahoo! Hopefully sleeping in a little, a lazy Saturday morning in my pjs with coffee & Pinterest,  and since I’m here in Texas, it means Friday night football games ! All good reasons to celebrate the day.  🙂 So , I thought it might be fun to do a little something to celebrate Fridays here together too! And since I have found so many amazing resources lately, I thought I would pick one of my favorites each week to share.  One day…

  • A Holy Curiosity

    A Holy Curiosity

    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” ‒ Albert Einstein