Posts tagged ‘spring’


Listening to Spring

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 in Nature

FINALLY it’s spring! (Right? Or did I just jinx us all?) I am nervous to switch out the girl’s clothes for their spring/summer clothes.  Is this for real?  I hope so. We’ll take as much of it was we can. I love that I don’t see my computer for most of the day and, instead, am […]

Rebelling

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 in Life

Last week it snowed…in the spring…just two days after we had played all the day long outside. We rebelled. We went to the store and bought swimming suits for our trip to Panama…which is in just…132 days. Then we went and bought things to make it feel like spring inside… It felt good to rebel […]

Tuesday: Weekly Book Review–Favorite Spring Book

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 in Tuesday: Weekly Book Review

Spring is coming, it has peeked out a few times but I know it is coming to stay soon. This morning we were busy trying on last year’s Spring clothes to see what could be passed down, thrown out or what still fits. We already did our spring cleaning (ok if I am being honest, […]

Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Appreciating Nature

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in Thursday: The Importance of the Arts

Appreciating Nature Do you have beautiful park, canyon, field in your area where you can bring your children to see the beauty of nature? We have the Thanksgiving Point gardens near us that include 55 acres of beautiful gardens. They have 10 separate gardens with different themes and types of flowers (The Grand Allee, Creek […]

Friday:Play!—Side Walk Chalk Fun

Friday, April 4th, 2008 in Friday: Play!

I am 25 years old and I still love sidewalk chalk as much as I did when I was 5. When I was a nanny the kids and I did the best thing with our side walk chalk. I would draw them a bike trail, a long one, it took a good hour to make. […]