I made a couple more bears for the Mother Bear Project this year.  Last year, I had said I wanted this to be an annual tradition, making 3 ...

Before Christmas we spent a week with the Five in a Row book A New Coat for Anna .  I just love this book.  In it, Anna and her mother bart...

We had an Elf on the Shelf for the first time this year!  I had so much fun staging his antics every night after the kids went to bed, and m...

A mama in my MOPs group unexpectedly delivered her baby boy at 26 weeks.  The thought of any family facing a long hard road in NICU sends me...

We spent a week studying the Five in a Row book selection How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World .  This is the most adorable book ever...

After the election was over, we did a week on Thanksgiving, loosely following the unit study plans on this mama's blog .  We spent a da...

Purely for my own entertainment, I made the rat girls a cube hammock shaped like a turkey for this week.  I crack myself up. Someone check...

Halloween crafting!  I did an order of some Minion hats for a couple of friends at church and their kiddos.  They dressed eleven boys a...