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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...

Tot School: Green

Kent was around 16 months old.                    ...

Tot School: Orange

  We also colored his “Orange” page with crayons and played with his normal toys. Next time we’ll talk about GREEN week! 🙂 What learning activities are happening in your house?    ...

Casual Saturday: Rambings About Our House, etc.

This has been a good week.  I am finally feeling comfortable with life being full of projects.  I used to want all the “special projects” done as perfectly and quickly as possibly so I could get right...

My Morning Seven

I am very list-oriented.  I don’t work off of a schedule but rather a routine and a to-do list.  My to-do list has four sections.  The first section is for the “morning”.  I want these things done by...

Tot School Break and Milestones: August

Kent was 13 months old in August. We didn’t do much for structured Tot School in August and September. We had a lot of fun and did random activities as they fit in. His physical development exploded...

Casual Saturday & Blogging

It is Saturday, right?  😉  With me home and Brian on four 10’s it gets a little confusing. Let’s see what’s new. I’m in the midst of painting our living room, to be followed by painting the kitchen. ...

Canning Madness

Alternate title: Tomatoes, Grapes, and Apples, Oh my!! What are you canning?        ...

Paint Samples: Definitely Worth It!

Painting is not my favorite thing to do.  Not even close.  So, when I do paint a room I really want it to be done for awhile. I’ve decided it is finally time to paint over the hideous green color I...

Tot School Week #3: Yellow

What are you doing in your house to learn about colors?  Or do you have suggestions for fun activities we should try?...

Chit Chat and Haircut

I think Saturdays may be a good day to do casual posts.  We’ll see.  The whole idea of jumping back in to blogging is appealing but I’m just taking it as it comes. Here’s me with my new haircut.  It...

Tot School Week #2: Red

Expect a couple more of these posts in quick succession as I’m still catching up.  We continued our Color Themes with Red. Kent was 12 months old. What fun pre-writing activities does your child...

Details on our Debt Free Status

As I mentioned here, we became debt free except the mortgage on August 28th, 2012. You can follow our journey from the very beginning in Our Money Story.  We got serious about kicking the debt habit...