Hello, warmer weather! I cannot tell you how much I have looked forward to Spring this year. I am not sure why, but I was ready for Spring so much earlier this year than usual. The fact that the flowers are blooming and the world is green again makes me …
I am a huge fan of helping children learn self-reflection. When I was a middle school math teacher, I would always take the time to speak with students individually about their behaviors, and part of the consequence for breaking classroom norms (I didn’t call them rules) was usually to write …
Have you ever watched someone slip on a hard tile or wood floor? Maybe you have even been the one to slip? Let me tell you, it is absolutely horrifying when you see your almost-two-year-old slip on the tile floor in the kitchen. It is like time goes in slow …
I know how easy it is to get caught up in pinning everything and anything that looks amazing on Pinterest, but how do you keep tabs on things you actually try and love on there? After creating an account with Pinterest, I quickly realized that I wasn’t trying nearly as …
After my baby shower for our first child, I realized that I was going to need some form of organization for all the clothes I had received and would presumably still need for our little girl. Children change so much in their first few years and I was going to …
I seem to always find recipes that call for already cooked chicken. I actually find myself writing many recipes that start with this too. It really is easier to make something quick if the slow-cooking ingredients, like the chicken, are already cooked. However, that chicken has to be cooked some …
Have you ever had the greatest idea of what to make for dinner… only to have that brilliant thought leave you moments later? How about this – have you ever looked in your pantry or fridge, saw some unusual ingredients, and wondered what you were planning to do with those? …