I miss it. I miss my boys' younger ages. I miss reading to them for hours after they begged me to sit on the floor with them. I miss the hours of...

I miss it. I miss my boys' younger ages. I miss reading to them for hours after they begged me to sit on the floor with them. I miss the hours of...
Can you believe the stores are decorated for Christmas already? I don't really want to think about it yet, but the grandparents have been asking...
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Both boys love to read. Cutie Pie, the 9 year old third-grader, is an avid reader. When it gets quiet we usually find him reading. He still loves to...
Our family is enjoying the Harry Potter series of books (you know, the ones by J.K. Rowling), fascinated by all the wizards and witches (and...
Every once in a while I get homesick for my childhood home. Do you? Last week I posted about being bullied as a child and ever since then I've been...
Walk, Talk, Tell didn't work for me, but when I was a child the world was different. There were no such things as the internet, cell phones (well,...
My boys have been doing a lot of building and experimental building. Read: coming up with ideas to build and then using only specific materials to...
Around here children must be five years old before December 1st to start Kindergarten in September of the same year. One of mine turned five in...
Cutie Pie absolutely loves the How to Train Your Dragon book series by Cressida Cowell. Last night we were reading Book 12, How to Fight a Dragon's...
Last winter I posted here about a fun fill-in-the-blank activity I did with Cutie Pie. What I didn't post was that in first grade, he came up with a...