I made this really delicious chicken and avocado salad with cilantro.  We will be making it again very soon.  Olivia really likes to u...

I spotted these pretty glitter heart earrings today and am thinking I will try to make some like them! It snowed a few inches today.  It...

Olivia got pretty good at using the pogo stick at a friend's house and is now anxious to earn money to buy one for herself.  We jus...

Today is the first day of school for my girls.  Olivia is now 10 years old and in 5th grade.  She is reading Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defo...

Pathway lined with moss-covered rocks remind me of The Hobbit , which we are still reading together.  It was very cold, but the sun shon...

Our 74 year old friend from church is teaching my daughter, Hannah, Russian.  She really wants to learn after going to camp this summer. ...

Happy October!  It is beginning to really feel like fall, the leaves on the neighbor's maple tree have started to change color.  Last ...

Olivia's favorite color is red .  She worked on making a color wheel yesterday, not just the primary and secondary colors, but the ter...

A gentle way to start off the school year...with a mirror and some art supplies.  The previous post was meant as inspiration, so that YOU ...

Norman Rockwell, 1960 (he took a photo and then painted and changed things to make it the way he wanted) Vincent Van Gogh, 1889 (self-...

A few of our favorite books....Olivia and I have been enjoying the McGuffey Readers that I read when I was a child.  She likes the sweet l...