Finding The Good
What is your story? We all have one. Mine started with Oreos at the dinner table. As I sat one evening with my family chomping Oreos together, I watched my kidlets start licking the creamy middles of their cookies. It brought back a memory from my childhood. I randomly sang out the Oreo jingle from the 80’s, “Who’s that kid… Read More
I teach music to children every Sunday. It’s my way of helping at our LDS church. I am the Primary music chorister for all children in our congregation (or ward as we call them) ages 3-11 years old. Then I also teach music to the tiny kids in nursery, ages 18 months to 3 years old, every Sunday as well…. Read More
I swore I would never ever do any kind of Elf on the Shelf thing. I thought it was ridiculous that we had to add another “store-created” Christmas tradition just because it was trendy. My Baby Girl began to wonder why she was the only kid who wasn’t visited by a skinny elf during the holidays. I told her it’s… Read More
I wished I had a parenting handbook today. Once again I had to find a way to talk to my Baby Girl about HONESTY. We’ve had trouble before like The Chocolate Milk Fib and Go Fish Cheater-Pants. Apparently, my parenting tactics used previously have not been super effective yet. And today, I pulled out the good ‘ol “dishonesty leads… Read More
I’ve noticed something about Baby Girl lately. She’s seeking independence and her power to choose. Anyone got kids like that? It’s not that these things have been taken away from her on purpose . . . it’s just that sometimes we forget she wants to decide for herself. Let me ‘splain . . . Last Monday, I got out of… Read More
So I decided it’s about time I really think about how the “glow” of electronics is affecting my family. I wanted to step back and really reflect on how our electronic devices have helped or hindered our family. I even listened to a little lecture on the “Pull of Electronic Devices” in which they discussed the positive and the negative… Read More
So summer is coming and the kidlets are gonna be bored . . . at least some of the time. You’ll have already taken them swimming, had friends over to play, made homemade popsicles, joined the library summer programs, and done the latest cool pin on Pinterest with them. But there’s still 5 hours of daylight left!!!!!! So you turn… Read More
More piano teacher craziness here. In continuing with my recent post about my brave decision to become my kidlets’ PIANO TEACHER (you can read about it HERE), and the ONLINE RESOURCES (I’ve Pinned them HERE) Today I’m sharing with you one idea I had that has helped me teach my 5 year old. So I was having trouble Baby Girl… Read More
So I have this theory that MOMS ARE AMAZING. I believe mothers have a powerful ability to teach their children. Mothers know their children better than anyone and therefore can suit their child’s learning according to their needs. I’m not a homeschooler (though I highly esteem those who are). And I don’t think you have to be a homeschooler to… Read More
Follow my blog with Bloglovin So the other day I turned on the Safari internet on my iPad. I noticed that a child of mine had been surfing the internet for “Spy Kids 2” (the Disney movie). We have pretty strong rules at our house about kidlets searching through the internet unsupervised. My kidlets know they cannot search on the internet without… Read More
I have been teaching my kids to FOLD laundry. At least I’m trying to to teach them to fold it, but it often comes out looking like a WAD of laundry. So really it seems like I’m teaching my kids to wrinkle laundry. I still remember the day I realized it was time for them to help me with more chores…. Read More
Have I mentioned that I was asked to be a Den Leader for Little Son’s Cub Scout Troop? Little Son is a Bear, so each week me and another mom hold den meetings at my house with the Wolves and Bears (8 & 9 year old boys). It’s kinda fun. Some activities work better than others. This April we are… Read More