Last weekend we went to Kidfort Fest, which is part of the Treefort Festival held in Boise every spring. There were so many great activities for the boys to get involved in, including dancing, singing, building cardboard forts and creating bottle rockets. As we arrived, we found this amazing creation, with a huge box of…
Month: March 2018
Tips to help Anxious Kids Reframe Their Day: Seeing the Green
Red can be an anxious kid. I’ve written about this before, in this post. He has an amazing imagination, but that leads to him to consider all kinds of scenarios, and his brain often takes him to the worst possibilities. If something disappointing happens at school or at the end of the day, he will…
Keep your Car Prepped for Adventure: Spring Edition
I’m an organizer at heart, and I like to be prepared. My husband jokes that we could pay a utility bill if we collected all the five and ten dollar bills I have in jacket and bag pockets for emergencies. Being prepared is no joke, however, especially if you want to be ready to say…
Snap It Outdoors: Black Diamond
Red has done a few black diamonds over this season and last, but they have usually been pretty hairy, and involved tears by at least one of us. Last weekend we headed up to our home mountain, Bogus Basin, and the snow was great. It’s been a bad season, and we were delighted to finally…
Snap It Outdoors: Very Indoors
I’ve written before about Red’s prematurity. He’s now 6 1/2, right on the 50th percentile for height and weight, and a lot of people don’t know about his birth story. He knows. He knows some, but we don’t talk about it much, other than to tell him the facts; he was born earlier than he was…
Taking a Mental Picture: How to Help Kids Transition to an Outdoor Activity
It can be hard to get the kids off the sofa sometimes. With Smalls, his opinion changes as often as a two-year-old says the word poop (which, in our house, is about every six seconds) and so even if he screams in outrage at the suggestion we go for a hike, he’ll be excited to…
Snap It Outdoors: Maps
‘The boys haven’t been wanting to go out much recently. A cold snap hit Boise again this week, the temperatures have been in the teens on the way to school, and there’s been indoor recess again. We’ve been playing in the yard, but not much more than that. The spring that seemed to beckon for…