This week was Early Bird's 4th birthday. We celebrated in a much more....low effort way than I prefer to celebrate birthdays . I had loo...

We had such an amazing fun time last summer working through Evan-Moor's Learning to Be a Scientist . The kids learned a lot, the repeti...

Confession #1: I threw away our unfinished mummy chicken when we moved. :( I was sooooooo excited when I first learned about the mummy chi...

I'm pregnant! 15 weeks today, due August 24th. This is why I haven't been blogging. I've been too sick to sit at the compute...

Early Bird and his first word read on the Word Builder (Feb '12) So we are huge LeapFrog fans at this house. I give their Fridge Wo...

Okay, I'm not dead, and I still want to blog. I had big wonderful plans for the new year, but then I got horribly sick. Sunday to doctor...

Builder Boy made Christmas cards today! I got most of the ideas of Pinterest, and there were even more that we didn't try. Here a...

Jennifer Bardsley over at Teaching My Baby to Read posted about this . The National PTA and the Connecticut PTSA are trying to collect home...

So on Sunday and again on Monday I had a sudden, horrible episode that my doctor thinks were extreme anxiety/panic attacks brought on by too...

So I got the idea for this on Pinterest ( here's the original pin .) They embroidered it, I did it in paint. I made three for the ladi...

Okay, I couldn't wait any longer. I got Builder Boy Snap Circuits for his Christmas present. For those who've never heard of them ...

"Brought to you by Builder Boy comes...the Leviticus! This wonderful musical instrument isn't just a stringed (okay, rubber-bande...

Two years ago it was Builder Boy who was the one very interested in "cooking" and play food. So one day I used paper to turn a di...

So here's the plan (because I love plans.) I am using these shelving units that I already had and wasn't using very much. (C...

  I was inspired by a few different projects on Pinterest and I decided to make these with the kids (and Daddy made some, too...

(Trying to get him to make a grumpy face) A few months ago I invented the Grumpy Song. Early Bird was throwing a lot of tantrums with a ...

Shelves (left,) sink and stove (middle,) and refrigerator (right.) Guess who's making a Pinterest inspired play kitchen for Christm...

Earlier this year (these books did not come with what I got.) Earlier this year (this book came with level 2 .) We ar...

When I was first teaching Builder Boy to read I used The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading and I used Hooked on Phonics boo...