kids

10 things to do on a day off school

July 30, 2008

Today The Engineer’s school is having a curriculum day. I completely forgot about it until dinner last night, even though I had it written on our . Cinderella will be at preschool until after lunch, but The Little Mermaid will be home as well. My plans for the day have been thrown a little into […]

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Birthdays, boys and girls

July 11, 2008

Flickr: Seth Thomas Rassmussen Do you ever wonder how your kids turned out to be so different? Today is The Engineers 7th birthday. After a number of false starts during the night, we let him get up at 5:45 this morning to begin his celebrations. Of course, he was most interested in what presents he […]

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What to do in the school holidays?

July 3, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Last week, I began to think about what we could do during the school holidays. I figured planning some activities would help keep the kids (and me) from going stir crazy. Then I was reminded of my childhood holidays – totally unplanned, unscheduled and great fun. I honestly can’t remember doing one […]

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Achieving goals – June

July 2, 2008

It’s time to report in and see how well I’ve done in achieving the goals I set for June. I have to say that knowing I’d be writing about my goals here, for all to see, has really made me focus. Blogging Write a series of posts to schedule if I am away. I’m into […]

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Raising environmentally aware kids

June 28, 2008

Image by macg3 via Flickr The school and preschool my children attend integrate environmental awareness into many of their classes. The Thinker and I also do our best to tell the kids about our impact on the world and the importance of our natural environment. I’d never thought too much about the actions we put […]

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Tantrums

June 13, 2008

Over the last six months or so The Little Mermaid (just turned 3) has been practicing her tantrums. She has almost perfected throwing herself on the floor while screaming and crying that she has been treated terribly unjustly. Sometimes she pretends she can’t walk and just collapses into a whiny heap. At home, this is […]

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