The Mom I Want to Be

Bare branches Pail filled with soil Yarn or ribbon Cut-out cardboard apple shapes Glue Red, green, and yellow construction paper Make an apple tree using bare tree branches. Take pictures of each child in your room.  Ask each child to trace an apple shape on a piece of red or green construction paper and cut […]

  PICTURE THIS: a family outing that’s great for all ages, affordable, and (shh!) educational too. Sound too good to be true? Not if you’ve got a digital camera and a sharp eye for letter shapes, as my family recently discovered they have. My 10-year-old, Ava, and 5-year-old, Harry, loved going on an I Spy […]