If your kids are like mine, they are covered in bumps and bruises from treating their bodies like they’re made of rubber. If you are like me when I had to put the baby carrier into the car, I inevitably came […]

First, hear this caveat: My younger child (8) was not impressed or interested at all in this project, and his older sisters think it’s cool but did not want to help. The way to make this a more hand’s on craft is […]

I’ve been wanting to make myself a string art Oklahoma since I fell in love with my adopted state…this year. Yes, I’ve lived here 17 years but I only just now came under its latent—or obvious—charm.

The […]

Oh, homeschool, how you stretch me. Without going into details or methods, I wanted to fun-up our spelling and writing sessions at Little Luithaus School for Extraordinary Children.

I searched the letter […]

I’ve been wanting to whip up some hand warmers for years, since the time I saw a rather posh version in a rather posh magazine. As I am neither posh nor fancy, I postponed the task until now, and take my own […]

So, yeah. My team, alas, entered the off season with a whimpering loss in Denver in the playoffs. I’m not bitter or anything, but this time last year, we were talking smack and whipping up batches of our family’s […]