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I realized this morning that there’s only a month left of summer vacation.  Seems like June is busy with projects that are being finished up, July always sneaks past me no matter how carefully I look, and I land at the beginning of August with the knowledge that I haven’t done as much fun stuff […]

My twin daughters are almost four years old - and I wonder where the time goes! I’ve recently decided to establish a routine of one-on-one time with each of them. I’m not really sure how to go about this. My time is going to have to be split into threes, because I cannot forget about […]

My thirteen year-old son, who I adore, seems to be in a funk lately.  Instead of swimming being a fun activity, it’s now "stupid and we do it all the time."  He would love to go to an amusement park, but that’s not an every day activity, to be sure.  When asked to come up […]

Last week I talked about heading to the beach for a few days with my big family. We did it and it was a success. We all have intense sun hangovers and tired muscles to show for it. At any given moment there were multiple games happening on different areas of the […]

Summer is in full swing in our neck of the woods.  The weather has been great, not to hot, not too cold.  We have had trips to the beach, a trip to the water park, a trip to a state park for some camping and fishing.  And yet, even with all this wonderful weather going […]

Have you ever heard of The Flat Stanley Project? It is a program created by a third grade teacher to help students learn to write letters to each other. I think that letter writing is an important skill to learn, but I also think that Flat Stanley could be used for so much more. In […]

I’m writing this poolside at our gym, watching swimming classes. My kids aren’t in the water right now, but I’ll have the pleasure of watching their classes in a couple of weeks.
How do you teach children to swim when you don’t know whether they’ve ever been in water before? This was the problem Peter and […]

The school year is slowly winding down around here. Yeah, yeah. We still have a month to go. So what? A month isn’t that long! Besides, if we worked REAL hard, we could probably finish up in two weeks. OR! We could be REAL lazy and get done in a month. I think we all […]

A few weeks ago I wrote about my relationship with the older boys and how I feel like we’re getting closer to one another over time. This summer I want to build on that with some fun activities. My list includes time at the beach, a possible service project for senior citizens […]