I have mentioned in previous posts that I and my children are foster parents to a child in Kenya.  You can read the article here. 
We have been sponsors now since February of this year and although we haven’t really received anything from being foster parents, it has been a great experience for both myself and [...]

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 [...]