Archive for the 'Themed Activities' Category

Surviving The Summer At Home…Building Your Family Tree

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I’m very excited to share this week’s activity report with you because I just loved researching my family tree. I started when I was about 13 years old, taking notes and filling in the blanks of my family tree journal that I had gotten for Christmas.
Young children can help create many different family history [...]

Surviving the Summer at Home…In the Garden

Friday, June 13th, 2008

I am very excited to announce that the first of our summer activity books is ready!
Surviving the Summer at Home is a series of themed activity reports that you can use to keep your kids busy and unplugged from their video games this summer. I know those awful cries of, “Mom! I’m bored!” so this [...]

Thanks for My Internship, Kelly!

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

This is Part 2 of my Week of Giving Thanks series.
For over two years I had been in the midst of a mini mid-life crisis. As my children grew older and more self-sufficient, I was desparate to find something for ME to do. I was tired of being everybody’s maid and short-order cook but I [...]

A Week of Thanks, Part 1

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Wow…I no sooner posted about surviving Halloween and here we are, two days before Thanksgiving! I won’t bore you with my usual, “oh my, where has the last two weeks gone?/I feel so old,” line even though all those thoughts are crashing through my mind right now!
My friend Alyssa started posting what she is grateful for on [...]