yes, my almost 2 year old is rear-facing…

My husband is a wonderful, loving, supportive man. However, there is one parenting aspect that we have disagreed upon – rear-facing car seats after 18 months or so.
I relented with our first two children around 18 months due to pressure from my husband. My older son was walking up the back of the car’s seat [...]

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my mother’s hands…

I remember looking at my mother’s hands a lot when I was growing up. Her hands seemed to be an integral part of her – strong and capable, slender and gentle, always there. I never realized that my hands looked so much like hers. It was during that week after she died that I happened to [...]

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pooper scooper…

Last January another homeschooling family was looking to rehome their hermit crabs. My six year old had been asking for hermit crabs periodically since he was three. I had been on the fence about them. Our research was conflicting about how much time was involved in their care. At three, he just wasn’t ready to do all [...]

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playdough…

We will be making playdough soon. Very soon. I think we’ll stick to food safe essential oils, though, for my little taste tester. I think this might also make a great addition to the mad scientist party we are planning for this Fall.

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it’s a wild world out there…

Check out the University of Michigan’s Animal Diversity Web. Animal sounds galore! Now, if only they had sounds for unique animals, such as the ligers we were looking up last weekend…

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artisan bread in five minutes a day…

I am intrigued by Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. I love the smell of baking bread. It fills my home and feels comfortable. The idea of making up a base and using that throughout the week has its appeal. I will have to think about this and decide if buying the book is [...]

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fruit salsa…

My family loves fruit salsa. Many times, such as tonight, we will have it for dessert. Lazy weekend afternoons are a great time for me to put out a big bowl of fruit salsa and cinnamon chips and let everyone munch. It is also very adaptable. Today for instance, I threw it together with what I [...]

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solar art…

A couple of weeks ago we met with a bunch of other homeschooling families at a local park to do sun art projects. I had ordered supplies from Steve Spangler Science. I will do a little plug to say that their customer service was fantastic. We will definitely be ordering more supplies from them. I [...]

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bar soap is banned….

I have been trying to ban bar soap from our home for quite some time. I hate the residue left behind. Soap scum, anyone? My husband, on the other hand, has had a love affair with soap in the shower for even longer. It might be important to add here that my husband has obsessive/compulsive [...]

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the number one reason to install solar landscaping lights…..

I’m slowly readying our house to sell. There are some major/minor projects that need finished. For now, I’m attacking the small projects I can do on my own or with the kids. A local hardware store was having a really good sale on solar powered landscape lights, so we picked up a box for the [...]

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