It came and went in the blink of an eye. The last summer before my oldest son started Kindergarten. I dreamed and planned to fill it with morning art projects, leisurely bike rides at the park, picnics, road trips to the beach and children’s museums, hikes to look for geocaches, play dates with friends, impromptu water gun battles, fruit picking… all of the things we did together and loved to fill our days before we had obligations like school to keep us on a schedule.Continue Reading
5 Unexpected Ways to Lighten the Mood When Anger Strikes
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information see my disclosure policy.Anger is a normal human emotion, but such a hard one to handle, isn’t it? I never thought I was an especially angry person. I mean, sure I felt impatient a lot and I could be pretty stubborn, but angry? Nah, that wasn’t me.
I must have gotten really good at hiding it, even from myself. Because it’s totally normal to get angry and frustrated from time to time, especially if you have kids.Continue Reading
Teach Kids the Value of Money With Penny Candy
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information see my disclosure policy.Looking for an easy math lesson that your kids will love? Try this Penny Candy Store to teach kids the value of money. It’s a fun and really easy way to work math into your every day conversation. Candy is one of my favorite tools for math and we’ve done several activities that involve using candy for counting and sorting.
There’s so much nostalgia for the decade I grew up in. Everyone’s lamenting how we had it so much better in our youth. In some ways, we did, but there’s so much opportunity and potential for my kids now that didn’t exist back then.Continue Reading
A Fun Day at the Water Park Tips and Tricks
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information see my disclosure policy.Of all of the places I’ve taken the kids in the last 5 years, water parks rank at the top for the most stressful. It’s like they were invented to give moms anxiety. When I was a kid, nothing was better than going to an amusement park in my bathing suit and playing in the water all day long at the water park section. Now, not so much.Continue Reading