Thanks to my son’s take home Scholastic News magazine, I learned that November is National American Heritage Month. For Language and Literature night tonight, I pulled a free printable from Teac...
Yesterday afternoon, just as I was getting ready to leave work, just as my husband, the tree guy, was dropping off our boys so he could run do some estimates, I got the news. I got the news that a won...
Talk about going through the motions. Grown-ups never cease to amaze me, and not always in a good way. Last night we trick-or-treated with our kids for two hours in a Kid-friendly neighborhood where h...
I asked the boys today what their favorite part of the Fall Season is, and they started mentioning all the bright colors of the trees. Before we knew it, we were in the middle of a gigantic art projec...
There are so many gorgeous colors in the world. I am drawn to colors and the juxtaposition of colors, the interesting array of possibilities, the “World is our Canvas” mentality, and splas...
Even better than cloud busting, Ben and I imagined a dragon in the fog this morning. Do you see it?...
Brothers, out in the country, with no one else around for miles, become best friends out of necessity. I think there is nothing more fun as a mother, than seeing my boys play together. They fight too....
The last day of summer, and the last day before school started, we visited the Art Gallery and working Studio of Living Opportunities. This is an organization in our town that works with the mentally ...
Today was Leonardo di Vinci’s birthday – and many of my artistic friends were looking for ways to Live Your Life as Art today. My boys do not know how to live any other way. If left to the...
We worked all day! First we watched a Behind the Scenes video on the Monsters, Inc. DVD that showed the filmmakers creating storyboards. Ben worked in his two-story playhouse (that was on property whe...
Last night, Ben had to crawl in bed with me – at nearly seven years old – and snuggle because his imagination was scaring him. Who knows where this is coming from? We don’t watch sca...
The Children’s Motivational Story Ben wrote for a target audience of 2- and 3-year olds. I think he enjoys being a Big Brother!...
This is the mural my six-year old and I just painted over the weekend!...
Instead of the proverbial skeleton in the closet – the kind of secret that is dangerous – Ben just has an actual skeleton (or parts of one) hanging around in his closet. He’s hoping ...
This is a new phase for us – where Benny does art to explain himself when he’s in trouble for something, or when he needs a reminder of the rules – if he does an art piece, it seems...
I was a dark storm cloud of a miserable mom yesterday afternoon. My little artist son has an artist’s temperment, as do I, and sometimes those strong wills, and fierce emotions, and melodrama co...
Ever since my four-year old dressed up as Darth Vadar for Halloween, he has been wandering around the house voicing some of Darth Vadar’s best known lines, like “You don’t know the p...
I love the way Benny’s brain works! This morning, we put together a new stroller for the baby, and Ben fell in love with some of the packaging material and brought it to school for show and tell...
