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Budgeting for Children: Making the Dollars STRETCH!

As I mentioned yesterday, we adhere to a strict budget for children’s supplies and learning materials.  Despite that, I never feel like Kent lacks for things he needs. Here are some ways we keep the...

Budgeting for Children: Learning Materials and Beyond

I’m not sure why but I feel led to write about this right now.  We’ll see if Kent sleep schedule agrees.  😉 In my post about our Montessori Inspired Kitchen Setup I shared some of the products we’ve...

Incorporating Montessori in Our Home: Kitchen Setup

It’s not like me to post pictures of something before it’s perfect and completed but it’s also not like me to actually post pictures of anything I intend to share. I want to make sure this makes it on...

On Break to Plan!

We’re here and doing well!  Brian has been in the fields a lot for Spring planting and Kent is enjoyed riding along every chance he gets.  I’ve had more time at home alone than normal.  So, I took a...

Tot School: Chick theme

Kent was 21 months old. I found so many cute chick activities while searching for Easter ideas!  We raise a couple hundred chickens a year here, plus we have some laying hens wandering around.  Our...

Tot School: Gray

Kent was 20 months old. Well this will give me a chance to catch up on these posts.  We hardly did anything for gray week!  Or, maybe we did, but it’s all a blur and I didn’t take any pictures.  Brian...

Tot School: Easter

Instead of doing our normal tot trays we did our own version of Resurrection Eggs to lead up to Easter Sunday.  We started on Palm Sunday.  For more details on these projects please see my post about...

Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers using The Beginner’s Bible

For pictures of these activities please see our Easter post. After venting about the lack of truly Easter related “Easter” activities on the web I received several suggestions to try Resurrection...

Tot School: Spring theme

Kent was 20 months old. Wow!  I’m three weeks behind on Tot School posts again.  How does that happen? As I was perusing the web looking for Easter ideas I kept stumbling upon tons of cute flower...

Kent’s Birthday Present

We have the perfect birthday present on order for Kent!  His birthday isn’t until July but you know us, we like to plan ahead! The exact specifications are unavailable at this time, and despite having...

Tot School: St. Patrick’s Day week

Kent was 20 months old. As we’ve been growing in our faith I’ve started digging in to each holiday and trying to decipher whether or not it is worth celebrating.  For us, St. Patrick’s Day is.  We are...

Tot School: Brown

Kent was 20 months old. I spent a lot more time planning Brown week and it paid off.  There was a bit of frustration on my part when he didn’t want to do some of the activities but I adjusted and we...

Tot School: January (Purple and Color Review)

Kent was 18 months old. We kind of wandered through January.  I tried to rotate the tot trays so that he had fun stuff to play with but I didn’t do a lot of planning or set any real goals.  We spent...

Tot School: December

Kent was 17 months old. Ha, the only pictures I have from December are these two.  We made cloud dough.  It was fun but I think he tried to dump it out and I lost my cool.  We moved it to the bathtub...