If you have spent any amount of time with my family, you know that my kids LOVE sports of any kind. Our house and yard look like the local YMCA on some days. What I love about buying gifts for sports kids is that if they use the basketball or soccer ball you gave them …
It is summertime, which means the kids are home from school. No more waking up early and taking the kids to school, just lazy days, right? Well, factor in the fact that kids are home ALL. THE. TIME. and thus create more of a mess, what is a stay at home parent to do? Checklists! …
If you are a Texas mom, dad, grandparent, guardian or, of course, teacher, you know that Spring = STAAR season for our public school kids! So many are left wondering….”So how do I help my child prepare for the STAAR test at home?” Luckily, the teachers do a pretty fantastic job at helping prepare …
School Anxiety: What Has Helped Our Family A few years ago, our oldest started daily pre-k. Things were great at first, but they got worse. A lot worse. He started on a Wednesday and absolutely loved it. Thursday he cried and said it was because he didn’t like the noisy cafeteria, which they had to …
Scroll to the bottom to download and print your Father’s Day printables! Dad and Grandpa Fact Sheets! Father’s Day is coming up soon, and it’s time to think about fun, easy, low cost gifts to give Dad and Grandpa this year! I’m all about making memorable gifts that can be enjoyed and kept for …
While everyone in the country is getting into a groove with doing their schoolwork from home, I want to share what is working for us, and has worked for us for years: the checklist. I have found that my boys thrive on checklists, where they can see what they need to do in a day …
Thank you Essilor Vision Foundation for sponsoring this post. EVF provides over 500,000 pairs of glasses per year to people in need and works with schools, eye doctors, charities, and corporations to help build vision ambassadors focused on serving their community. Vision Problems in Children – How the Gift of Sight Changed our Son’s …
Halloween Craft Time: Sparkly Spiderwebs was first published in 2012. Updated in 2019. One day when I was home with my then 3.5 year old, he wanted to do a Halloween craft. I had no idea, so of course, I went looking on Pinterest and found many crafts to make with black paper and white …
Our oldest started playing soccer a few months shy of turning 4. His dad was the coach and it was our first experience at any kind to play sports with a team for our kids. It was challenging for us because we also had a 1 1/2 year old who really did not want to …
Our youngest is just about to start kindergarten. In some ways, it came way too quickly and in some ways, it feels like he should have been in kindergarten already. He is excited about joining his older brothers at a brand new to us school, but he, of course, has a lot of anxiety …