It is almost that time again... back to school. My daughter starts Kindergarten this year and both older kids are attending a new school. All summer I have been vacillating the public versus homeschool choice. Both kids want to attend public schools but it makes me really nervous. Our experiences thus far have not been so great. To make matters worse my local community is at war over a school levy that just failed. 51% of the community voted it down with the full understanding that if they … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
Nature’s Playground
Children nowadays have a tendency to spend too much time indoors in front of the computer or TV. There is just too much to do inside with all the kids programming and video games available. Some parents are not at all concerned about this. It is just accepted as the way kids ARE now. Yet there is so much to learn from exploring nature and kids who spend all day indoors with electronic entertainment are missing out. Kids used to love to climb trees and roam around their environment. They loved … [Read more...]
Garden Goodies
All week we have been eating fresh from the garden. We are overflowing with tomatoes, bell peppers, banana peppers, chilis, cukes, and other deliciousness. The kids just pick and eat too. I swear my 3 year downed a half pound of snow peas before we even got any in the house. A bowl of sugar snap peas lasted about 3 hours before they were devoured. And of course tomatoes can be eaten just like apples, still warm from the sun and juicy sweet. Fresh picked! We reused our berry basket from the … [Read more...]
Off to Amish Country for a Few Days – WW
Prince Lionheart for Greener Safer Babies
Giveaway at the bottom of this post! I blogged about glass bottles and I blogged about safer, BPA Free Plastic Bottles and I thought those were pretty much going to be our only options. Boy was I wrong. I was amazed to find out while back that there are now silicone bottles. It is pretty nifty! The medical grade silicone that nipples and pacifiers are made of is also extended to the body of the bottle. The advantages of silicone over glass is that it won't break and the advantage of silicone … [Read more...]
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