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Campfire Banana Boats Sundaes

When I was a little girl, we had a lot of cookouts. Someone was always building a fire and cooking something over open flames. My favorite things to cook in the fire were banana boats. They’re quite easy: Wrap a banana, peel attached, loosely in aluminum foil. Slit the banana open to form a boat. [...]

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Our First Grade Homeschool Curriculum

5-year-old Grace will soon finish first grade, so I thought it was time to share the curricula we’ve used this year as well as what worked and what didn’t work. We continued to participate in a cyber school for first grade (here’s why we chose that route). I wanted to quit the cyber school (and its [...]

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Reader Question – Can You Identify This Book?

Melissa commented on my 101 Chapter Books to Read or Hear Before You Grow Up post with a request. She described a book she read and loved as a child, and she asked for help with the title and author. I thought it was worth reposting because the story sounds interesting. I want to know [...]

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12 iPad Apps You’ll Be Happy to See Your Kids Playing

If you’ve been reading for a while, you know how enamored my kids are with the iPad. They are veritable technophiles, those two. I’ve started hiding the iPad most of the time because I want them to do something besides sit and play with it. The apps they use are awesome and educational, but too [...]

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Easy Mexican Pizza

This is a sponsored post. Joe created the recipe himself, and all opinions are mine. The worst part of my being gluten-free is the lack of convenience food. When we’ve been working out in the garden for too long, and we come inside, covered with dirt and hungry, we have painfully few options. Joe put [...]

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Grace’s New Glittery Bedroom

All that Glitters Topcoat from Disney & Glidden

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post, but all opinions are my own. As I mentioned earlier this month, we had some redecorating planned for Grace’s bedroom. You know, the one Joe sleeps in. Anyway. Grace wanted to put Peter Pan and Tinkerbell on the ceiling in glow-in-the-dark paint, and she wanted a glittery trail of [...]

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Ninety-nine and Sixty Hundred Xs and Os

Because I work in the evenings, Joe puts our girls to bed every night (except for Saturday, when I don’t work and take the pleasure). I wish I could take them to bed every night because I love bedtime, but I do get them all day long. And I have to work at some point. [...]

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101 Chapter Books to Read (or Hear) Before You Grow Up

It is worth noting that Grace loves a particular series of fairy books, but I hate them. Hate them. The text is dull and not well written. It’s the book form of candy, empty words without any redeeming intellectual value. There are probably books in your children’s lives that are the same way. Why not feed [...]

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13 Bible Verses to Overcome Disappointment

I am not a born optimist, but then, I don’t think anyone really is. Despite appearances, I do not naturally see the good in people or in situations. My heart hides snarky cynicism and crushing depression, fragile insecurity and paralyzing anxiety. I have to work (harder than you think) at being pleasant and cheerful and [...]

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If You Take a Mom to Target…

I wrote this post in September 2010, when I was six months pregnant with Allie. It still makes me laugh, so I wanted to give it a rerun. If you take a Mom to Target, she’s going to want a cart to put her purse in. If she gets a cart, she’s going to want [...]

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