My nine-year-old daughter love to be creative. She’s always making or remaking something, sometimes with my help, sometimes on her own. She decided she wanted to make a t-shirt using some of the fabric paint we have. I dug out a white t-shirt for her and she asked me to trace, in pencil, what she wanted to write.
Renting To Friends: Our Bad Experience
This post is third in a new series about being a landlord and how I dealt with certain situations. I’ll share the mistakes I made, and the lessons I learned in each post. I personally have learned a great deal from fellow landlords and I hope to pay it forward by sharing my stories and…
What Is Unschooling?
On one of the unschooling email lists that I subscribe to someone asked, “Exactly what is unschooling? I thought it was another name for homeschooling”. Kelly Lovejoy’s answer helped a lot of people who were confused as to what the difference was.
Our Favorite Kid Lit For Spring
With an almost 3-year-old and a 4-year-old at home, we have a lot of books. I mainly buy second-hand books from thrift stores or flea markets, I look for seasonal or holiday-related books because they’re great to rotate during the year. Here are some spring themed books that I picked up along the way, with…
Older Child Adoption: The Good, The Bad & The Hungry
Older child adoption has given me more joy, more sadness, more fulfillment, more stress and more gray hairs than anything else in my life. We recently passed our five-year adoption mark (we adopted three siblings) and sometimes it feels like five days, while other times it feels like five million years.
#Caturday: Pumpkin
Pumpkin is 9 months old and very personable and friendly. He loves hanging out with all of us, especially the kids. A neighbor found him sleeping under his car. He was about 2-3 months old at the time. Of course, we kept him. He’s really my daughter’s cat but I’m getting kind of attached to…