Happy Memorial Day!




If you’d like to see what I came up with to say “thank you” to some service men and women (navy) last year at Girls’ Camp, look at this post:




If you’d like to see what I came up with to say “thank you” to some service men and women (navy) last year at Girls’ Camp, look at this post:
Before we leave Valentine’s Day in the dust and start hopping down the bunny trail, I wanted to show you the fun Valentines I came up with for my kids (and me) to hand out this year. This was the first time in many years, that their faces weren’t plastered all over their valentines, but…
It’s not too late to throw together some fun for the historic inauguration festivities. Take advantage of this free download from Kira @ Tangarang (that’s my daughter’s name, too. Kira, I mean–not Tangarang).And how fun is this?So, I don’t drink at all, but I’m sure we could come up with some sort of fun non-alcoholic…
You know I don’t talk about politics on this blog–there are enough other places to debate about such things–but I think we all can agree that a presidential election is an important historic event, and a great chance to teach our children about our government and how voting works. The last presidential election our family…
Do you send “thank you” cards? It is becoming a lost art. We usually make or write thank you cards, and then forget to deliver or send them. My mother-in-law, unfailingly sends us a thank-you after Christmas and birthday/mother’s day (they are about the same time), and gently reminds us to send them, at least…
I hate to call things “fails” because I am an optimist and I think something good comes from every project attempted, but if I am being honest, these projects didn’t turn out nearly as well as I had hoped they would (and fail alliterates with Fourth of July better than a word like…”experiment.”) Why am…
Another quick teacher appreciation idea. Although, I didn’t use these for teachers at all. I teach Let’s Play Music and we just had our recital for the graduates of the program last week. The Let’s Play Music program requires a lot of parent participation and I wanted to recognize the parents and help the kids tell them…