I love Christmas traditions! And my kids are finally starting to value them. They have already started to remind me of things that we did last year at Christmas time that they want to do again. There are lots of reasons that we have traditions: to remind us of something special, to feel close to family and […]
Kids make mistakes. And lots of those mistakes involve messes. An important part of learning from their mistakes (messes) is being able to fix them. For example: I came out of my room the other day to find that three of my children had colored on the dining room table with permanent marker. PERMANENT. MARKER. I cried. […]
This last week was the official start of the holiday season. My calendar is already filling up and I am sure there will be much more to come. It will be hard to keep up. As far as my house is concerned, I am already far, far behind. I looked around my house at the […]
