Things to write home about

Things to Write Home About – Type-A Parent Edition

The name of this conference always makes me laugh because I am so not a type-a parent. Except sometimes. Anyway, I’m at the conference in North Carolina, and so I’ve prewritten and scheduled this post for your enjoyment. The links are from the last couple of weeks. Parenting & Having Fun As A Family Watermelon play [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 6/17/2012

Here’s what I found this week: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family Ten backyard camping activities The Trouble with Bright Girls - This one is so very interesting. It’s an article about a longterm study of bright girls and bright boys and how they tackle challenging and confusing material. I read the whole article out loud [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 6/3/12

Here are a few posts I read this week: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family This is powerful and brilliant: two lists you should look at every morning Cooking: Recipes & Kitchen Tips Cucumber lime spritzer Zucchini pizza Crafts & Other Projects 10 Minute Dancing Skirt Wedding card college (would be perfect for birthday [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 5/27/12

How did it get to be the end of May already? I feel like Easter was just last week! Here’s what I found this week: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family How to Graciously Accept a Compliment Water Beads Summer Journals for Little Kids Cooking: Recipes & Kitchen Tips BBQ Meatballs Chile Relleno Casserole [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 5/20/12

Here’s what I found this week: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family You know I am in love with this list of Positive Princess Books. Many of our favorites are on the list. This question can change your parenting. I’ve been doing this for a year or so, and it really works. Cooking: Recipes [...]

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Things to Write Home About – Mother’s Day 2012

I wrote a very nice introduction to this post, and then I deleted it by accident (is there any other way?). This introduction isn’t as nice, but it will have to do. I used to write a weekly post here every Sunday called Things to Write Home About. I don’t remember exactly when I stopped [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 3/26/11

Here are some of my favorite posts from the last couple of weeks: Homegrown: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family Jamie from Hands On: As We Grow guest posted an Ivory soap experiment at My Delicious Ambiguity based on this post at Housing a Forest Housing a Forest reused the Ivory soap from the [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 3/19/11

I am finding it increasingly difficult to write Things to Write Home About. It takes a lot of time. At any rate, I am moving it to Saturday because I have something else in store for you tomorrow (and future Sundays). Here are some of my favorite posts from the last couple of weeks: Homegrown: [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 2/27/11

I have tried to publish this for the last month. Life got in my way. You know how it goes! Anyway, here are some of my favorite posts from the last couple of weeks: Homegrown: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family Asha at Parent Hacks discusses using conditioner in place of shampoo Kristen, the [...]

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Things to Write Home About – 1/30/11

Here are some of my favorite posts from the last couple of weeks: Homegrown: Parenting & Having Fun As A Family This would take some planning, but Steff from The Neff Gang guest posted a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt at Make and Takes a couple of years ago Tsh (the Simple Mom) posted about parenting [...]

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