It’s amazing how fast the time flies. My third baby finished elementary school yesterday, and I now have more “older” kids than younger kids. Twizzler graduated from 5th grade last night with the Presidents Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence, Honor Roll Award for 3 consecutive marking periods (actually, more than that), and the School…
Chimpanzee – Disneynature Activities for Kids and Educators
Tomorrow I’m packing my bags and heading down to Florida for a week of sun, fun, and Chimpanzees. I can’t wait to see the newest Disneynature film, and am excited to share these downloadable activity packets to help you and your kids get ready for Chimpanzee. This CHIMPANZEE Family Activity Book has games, mazes and…
Magic Ketchup – Part Science Experiment, Part Magic Show
I found a little science experiment on sciencebob.com and thought that it might be fun to try it out with my 7 year old. No, it’s not science fair time. Just time for some good, clean fun. Pin It Here is how you set up the experiment: Supplies: Plastic soda bottle (1 liter or…
Champions for Kids – Simple Ways to Give #AbbottCFK
There are hungry children everywhere At elementary schools in my town, children sit at their desks at the beginning of the school day, and before they pull out their folders or hand in their homework, they are served breakfast. It may seem hard for some to believe, but the food that some of these children…
The Swim Meet – Wordless Wednesday
We’re done with soccer for now and on to SWIM TEAM. KitKat’s first official high school swim meet was this weekend. The meet started at 9:30, and she told me not to get there until 9:45. Of course, she swam both of her events in the first 10 minutes…. So I took pictures of her…
A Week in My Life: Day 1
The other day, my friend Mel from Adventuroo invited me to participate in her Week in the Life blogging carnival. Although my life seems more chaotic than interesting these days, I thought I’d play along. MONDAY: Sleeping in: I slept in a blissful hour and a half longer than I usually do this morning….
First Homecoming – Photostory Friday GMYBS
I’m not sure when my daughter got this old, but last Saturday KitKat went to her first Homecoming dance. Luckily, her first fancy school dance was an easy one on me….none of her friends were interested in going with dates, so a big group of girls went to the dance together. I was stunned when…
Back to School Photo Challenge
It has been a while since I’ve entered a photo in an I Heart Faces challenge. But today, I felt compelled to enter the Back to School photo challenge. I had one particular photo in mind from the first day of school 2008. I searched for the picture only to discover that it is one…
Back to School Wordless Wednesday
Can you tell by these pictures how my kids felt about the first day back to school? Why, yes….they WERE running and dancing their way to school. And I danced my way back home. The older girls were not quite so enthusiastic about first day of school pictures. For more inspiring photos, check: 5 Minutes…
Back to School Best and Worst List
Whether your kids have started school again for the year, or you have another few weeks of summer left, those of us with school aged kids are ALL in the back to school mindset this month. I LOVE having my kids in school, but I also love the summer time. Some of the BEST things…