It’s been a busy summer!
The kids have been taking riding lessons, and loving it! Mr. Campbell is a great role model for both of them.  They’re learning SO much, and gaining confidence. It’s going to be harder to work into the schedule during the school year, but I think we need to find a way […]

Maria Montessori strongly cautioned against leading children to believe that fantasy was reality, believing that it made it harder for children to distinguish between the two and led to issues of trust later on.
We’ve had our kids in Montessori since they were 3 and 4–they’re now, as of yesterday, 7 and 8–and had never known […]

(I apologize, in advance, for the lousy layout of this post.  Wordpress is NOT behaving, and I’m too tired to mess with it anymore.)
I’ve been so busy for so long that I’d almost forgotten how good it feels to do something creative just for the fun of it. I don’t want to be that […]

Interesting exercise on Carole’s D/FW Mom’s board: 5 things you’ve done that nobody else has done. I had to come up with my own list:
* Driven over 25,000 miles around the United States on road trips, by myself and with a friend
* Eaten lunch in the pitch dark in a lava tube in New […]

Somebody started a thread with this question on the moms’ board that I frequent. It’s another of those that makes a great meme, so I’m posting it here and tagging a few people. Hopefully, they’ll play along!
Debbie, Aruni, Naomi, Christine, Sonia, and Tim: you can post your answers here, or you can post […]

“Good customer service is VERY important.”
The short version of the story:
I almost quit the gym yesterday, even though I only signed up about a week ago, but because they have excellent customer service, I’m still a member and still happily recommending them to others.
The long version:
When I joined Express Fitness last week, I also signed […]

I swore, when Angelina and Alexander were babies, that I’d never be one of THOSE moms — the ones who are always hurrying the kids along, getting annoyed when they dawdle. I did really well for the first three or four years but, after the divorce, I found myself more and more telling the […]

I signed the kids up for swim lessons today. They don’t start until June 23, but that was the earliest anybody could get them in. Angelina seems to be a bit nervous about it, and is very concerned that she’ll have to go in the deep water. I reassured her that she […]

Someone started a thread on the moms’ board that I frequent, and I think it would make an excellent meme, so I’m starting it here, worded my own way:
What are your top five summer favorites?  It can be memories, places to go, things to do, sights, smells, whatever. . . . What says […]

Del and Colleen have this hanging on the wall in their living room. I’d like it hanging in ours, as well:
 
Desiderata
– written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s –
Not “Found in Old St. Paul’s Church”!
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without […]