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Show-and-Share Saturday Link Up!

Show-and-Share Saturday Link Up!

As always, there were so many wonderful ideas shared last week. Here are just a few: I’ve always wanted to make grass-heads! This Grasshead Family from Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational looks like a fun family project…not to mention the fact…

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Virtual Photography Class: Depth of Field

Virtual Photography Class: Depth of Field

I love pictures where the subject is in focus and everything behind it is blurry. It’s my personal preference. The sharpness of a picture, or how much of a picture is in focus, is called depth of field. The depth…

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Toddler Time: Simple Color Sorting

Toddler Time: Simple Color Sorting

We’ve been casually working on our colors with Little Brother. Right now everything is “yellow”. Big Brother did the exact same thing, only everything was “blue”! Sorting is an important concept for young children, though this is our first deliberate…

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The One Thing I Want Parents to Know: A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflection

The One Thing I Want Parents to Know: A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflection

Guest Post by Amanda of The Kindergarten Chick In honor of back to school time and sending my three year old to preschool, I wanted to blog about what I have just discovered upon reflection this week. This is my…

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‘Are You My Mother’ Sensory Tub

‘Are You My Mother’ Sensory Tub

After our Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Sensory Tub, I thought it would be fun to do more sensory tubs inspired by some of our favorite children’s books! The Are You My Mother? Board Book is one of Little Brother’s…

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Open Arms Series: Persevering through the Adoption Process

Open Arms Series: Persevering through the Adoption Process

Guest Post by Tiffany Hi! I’m Tiffany, and I’ve known the lovely author of I Can Teach My Child since she was a little girl! Watching her grow, get married and be a wonderful Mom is such a joy (plus,…

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Homemade Fruit Chewy Roll-Ups

Homemade Fruit Chewy Roll-Ups

I first found this recipe in the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living. We were really excited to try these fruit chewy roll-ups…especially since we found a 2lb. carton of strawberries super-cheap at Sam’s! Here’s the recipe: 2 lbs….

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A Lesson Learned: The Bond Between Brothers

A Lesson Learned: The Bond Between Brothers

One of the most precious things in life right now is watching our boys love on each other. They are crazy about one another. I am so, so thankful. I can’t tell you how happy it makes my heart to…

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Show-and-Share Saturday Link-Up

Show-and-Share Saturday Link-Up

Lots of great activities and ideas were shared last week. Here are just a few: These sponge towers from Toddler Approved look like lots of fun! They’re a great way to use the leftover sponge strips after making sponge…

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Virtual Photography Class: Part 1

Virtual Photography Class: Part 1

Well, last night was our first class. And I learned quite a bit of the basic fundamental terms of photography that I had heard thrown around before but never really understood. I told you I would share what I learned,…

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Encouraging Independence: Going Down the Stairs

Encouraging Independence: Going Down the Stairs

Stairs are recurring parts of my nightmares. I am terrified of my children falling down the stairs…especially the half of our flight of stairs that isn’t carpeted. But much to my dismay (and a racing heartbeat), stairs are an inevitable…

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Our New School/Craft Supply Organization

Our New School/Craft Supply Organization

Organization is apparently not my thing. Try as I might, I just can’t seem to stay organized! This presents an assortment of complications, one of them being I can never find what I’m looking for. This is especially true for…

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Parenting – It’s In The Cards

Parenting – It’s In The Cards

Guest Post by Barbara from Corner on Character Let’s just say I’ve played a lot of cards this summer. Last night’s game of Canasta got me to thinking; how has my parenting journey been connected to cards? Let’s see…

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Turntable Art

Turntable Art

I love free stuff. I happened upon this PhonoViewer on the “free-take it” shelf at church. It came with tons of “records” as well. I honestly don’t really know what a PhonoViewer is…and apparently I won’t be finding out because…

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Open Arms Series: Adoption after Biological Children

Open Arms Series: Adoption after Biological Children

Guest Post by Angie Hi! My name is Angie and I blog at www.abailey423.blogspot.com about my life and my loves. I am thrilled to be guest blogging today about adoption, something very close to my heart. My husband and I have…

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World’s Best Snickerdoodle Recipe

World’s Best Snickerdoodle Recipe

This is a recipe that I begged a sweet lady from our church for back when Prince Charming and I were dating. She brought her amazing snickerdoodles to a college class at church and they were the best snickerdoodles I…

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Virtual Photography Class

Virtual Photography Class

Thursday night marks the beginning of my 5-week photography class (alongside a sweet friend). This is something I’ve never done before but have always wanted to do (besides in high school photojournalism class, that is…when we still used a dark…

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A Lesson Learned: The Lies (Part 2)

A Lesson Learned: The Lies (Part 2)

Last week we talked about the first of the two lies that we as parents face and we and learned that we CANNOT do everything well. This week we’ll discuss the second lie: We can make everyone like us and…

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