This past week, I’ve been planning our homeschool curriculum for the 2015-2016 schoolyear. This will be the first time I’m teaching more than one student at home. I will homeschool 3 kids this year!  6th grade, 1st grade, and Pre-K!  I’ve got my work cut out for me, so I’m making sure the procrastination bug stays well away.continue…

I just made these yesterday to go with our lunch and it turned out to be a big hit! Since it’s kids-approved, I thought I’d share the goodness with you all. It takes less than 5 minutes to make AND it’s super yummy (and good for you)! SUPER EASY, FESTIVAL FRUIT AND POWER GREENS SHAKE Ingredientscontinue…

Sometimes, I feel like I’m cleaning up one thing or another – every waking moment of every day.  There is always something to wipe, to pick up, to wash, to stack, to shelve, to wipe again, and again, and again… I can’t help but wonder, “Is this what I traded my career for? To pickcontinue…

I once had a conversation with my friend, my former Boss, a Principal of an Elementary School.  While talking about the good ol’ days, she said, “So when will you come back and be my VP again?” It’s been 6 years since I left.  Some days, when the going got really tough, I seriously considered going back.  Andcontinue…

This is my 3rd child, 1st son, when he was about 10 months old. I just found this in my archives and I’m posting it because he looks just like his younger brother, my 4th child, 2nd son. The similarities are uncanny – not just the features, but the look on his face.  I’ve seencontinue…

Everyday, my mind is divided into two things – thinking about writing and real life.  With so much going on around me, what with 4 kids and all, you’d think I’d have a lot of inspiration to write about.  Right? Nope.  Everything just gets jumbled up in my head.  Most times, the first few linescontinue…

Together, these two will rock the world OR Hand in hand, they will burn it down BECAUSE They are my wild ones STANDING At opposite extremes THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SOMETHING FIERCE BUT THEY FIGHT EACH OTHER WITH SUCH WRATH TOO And they miss the other when one is gone And they don’t want to sharecontinue…

I need nap time to happen every day in my home.  Although I don’t take a nap, my kids MUST. It’s to save my sanity.  Because, honestly, I need space sometimes. I tell the kids it’s because they need to rest their bodies and grow stronger. I make other excuses too… There’s tae kwon docontinue…

As a former third world resident who now lives as a first world parent with kids, I get really disappointed (and a little irritated) when my kids sometimes complain about the food we give them to eat. But whether they don’t like the way the food smells, looks, or tastes, we make our kids eatcontinue…

They’ve been waiting for ages…to go outside and use this water table that had been sitting inside our home, nice and dry, since it came in the post. And although we’re on drought alert, I’ve decided that this wasn’t really that bad – when it comes to wasting water. I filled it up and said,continue…