My husband and I had a glorious weekend off while my parents were in town and hiked to an abandoned mine near us. It was a 5-mile round trip, and we hiked it at least partially to see if the kids could handle it. We knew it was a bit far, but we felt the…
Month: November 2018
Why you should build a Bug Hotel with your kids
We visited the Jim Hall Foothills Learning Center this weekend. We were there for a family photo session, which was a lot of fun! It was a beautiful place to take photos and had lots of things for the kids to run around and do between shots. It’s getting cold, and so taking jackets off…
Snap It Outdoors: Shadows
We’re in one of the most beautiful times of the year; at least I think so. The weather is crisp and cold, and so, so dry, that I’m using up hand cream and lip salve by the day. We huddle in jackets and hats and gloves leaving the house in the morning in the low…
Why you should slow down and walk around with your kids
Yesterday we all jumped in the car ten minutes before the school bell was due to go, and it wouldn’t start. The battery had died, and no amount of furious turning of the key was changing anything. Luckily, we live barely a mile from the school, and although it was a chilly 28F, we could…
Snap It Outdoors: Lonely Leaf
We worked hard on our yard clean-up this weekend. If you want to know how we persuaded the boys outside for big parts of the day, check out Fall Yard Clean Up which allows you to download a free e-book with hints and tricks to try to encourage the kids outdoors. As we were raking…
Don’t Fear the Fall Back – Tips to Help Kids Adjust to the End of Daylight Savings Time
I first wrote this post a year ago, lamenting the fact I have young kids who are bad sleepers. Every sleep difficulty we go through, I assume it’s just a bad spell, it will pass, they’ll grow out of it. And yet. Here we are, a year later, and we’ve been getting up in the…