Lincoln loves glue. #loves . Like, love loves. He likes to squeeze it. To touch it. Smoosh it. Smear it. Sometimes taste it. Squeezing the glue bottle is such a great fine motor skill builder – he is building up the strength in his hands. I cut a square of cardboard and let him […]

Our morning. For these few moments – before the chaos ensues over who does what next; no one wants to clean up; I need more food hectic … For this moment I am embracing the quiet and stillness that is occurring in my kitchen while I cook and Layla and Lincoln build @snap_circuits_jr and Lillian […]

Sometimes I completely stress out about “unschooling” … Letting my child lead the way. Sometimes I wonder  Am I doing enough? Is she doing enough? Is she on par? It seems silly, when I slow down and actually think about it. Silly because all children, reach milestones on their own schedule… A notion that we […]

What is Gratitude? – Gratitude is the ability to BE thankful and appreciative. Why is Gratitude important? – Gratitude is important because it brings us back to center…it brings us back to kindness. It allows us to BE in the presence of our life’s many blessings: however simple or profound. Why do we need to […]

My 2-year old loves dirt.  He loves digging in dirt. Diggers in dirt. To find worms in dirt. To scoop dirt. To jump in dirt mixed with water. Dirt. He is also infatuated with finding ants and bugs and worms in dirt. So when I was perusing the Halloween aisle and happened upon some fake […]

Came downstairs to paint and glitter ALL over the kitchen floor … The floor I had JUST vacuumed. And Mopped. Buuuuut…they had found the #spinart and occupied their own time for a good part of the morning. So I desperately tried to hold in my need to clean and maintain my morning cool – pre-coffee. […]

We have been collecting leaves for a few weeks now and setting them in our Fall Nature Tray (on our kitchen table). We call them Nature Treasures and it’s ONE place we gladly add to our collection (so I don’t keep finding crunched up leaf debris at the bottom of my purse or pocket…)  I […]

Fall treasure study Maize, pumpkins, and gourds We have really been enjoying the process of oil pastels these last few weeks. I forgot how much I like them! They were my favorite in grade school, high school, university, and beyond. Glad to have them resurface during our art space move <3  Lillian (4) in particular […]

My youngest is a train enthusiast. He’s an anything-that-travels-by-wheels guru. He’s a figure-it-out-investigator. Let’s-see-how-this-works thinker. In a way that is more mechanical than my other two. They were interested. But he is fascinated.  We have had a few birthdays for him this month because we have been traveling all over and every family stop we […]

We went to the Carnegie Science Center last week and one of the demonstrations we saw was about how to make ice cream. It was a delicious experiment and my little chef was very interested in the science, discovery, and of course, the end result – taste-testing her concoction!  When we got home we thought […]