Well, it has finally been decided that my experiment with the Praying Mantis egg sac has failed. We didn’t get any Praying Mantids running around and I think the kids were a little disappointed. I mean, this has been an ongoing project for over 6 months.
Still, even with the failure of the experiment, [...]

I have found over the years that I have become a person that will leaf through travel brochures and gaze longingly at planes as they pass by overhead. I think to myself, “What wonders will I see if I travelled to faraway destinations? What would I experience?”
I think everyone has those thoughts, well, [...]

This is an excellent quote that I would like to share with everyone.
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.
One of these is roots - the other wings.”
-Hodding Carter (1907-1972)

When I was a kid, I really felt that the sole reason why my parents had children was for the cheap labor.  I mean, by the time I was 4, I already had several chores that were assigned to me; namely the bathroom.  I still remember my parents watching me while I was scrubbing the toilet and [...]

Last night I took an hour to myself to watch America’s Next Top Model.  Yes, I watch it every week and only started watching it during the last “cycle”.  I say I watch it because I have an interest in fashion and it gives me some names to look into but let’s face it…there really [...]

I am ghostwriting a few chapters on child development right now and found that I needed to fact check a few of the points that I was writing this weekend.  I have boxes upon boxes of reference materials as well as all my notebooks and textbooks from when I was in college.  I was extremely [...]

Usually, I find that I talk about child development and everything that has to do with mom.  This isn’t intentional at all but has more to do with the fact that I am a mother so I see life from the vantage point of a mother.  It is important to remember that fathers are just [...]

Today, my son’s school is having a family fun fair and I am part of the planning committee.  It is all back to that whole volunteering thing and I have decided to jump into it completely.  My son is absolutely overjoyed by the whole thing.  Not only does he know that I am interested in [...]

Ever since I was a young girl I swore that I would never be “one of those women.”  The ones that went to PTA meetings, bake sales or anything that dealt with being a stay at home mom like Mrs. Cleaver.  I was constantly bombarded with images that being “one of those women” was a [...]

“…Wanna come?”
My kids have always been talkers.  I like to think that my actions had something to do with it but sometimes I wonder.  
When my kids were young, I enjoyed spending my day rambling to them about what we were doing.  I think if someone was passing by they would have thought I had gone crazy [...]