More Vacation Tips
As a follow-up to the article I wrote on saving money on vacation, I have a post over at ForeverParenting.com with some vacation packing tips. Over the course of two separate vacations, Hubby and I drove the 4 boys cross-country this year. First we drove to the...
Gaining Wisdom In Spite of Himself
The Mercenary gets annoyed with me - routinely - because I insist on working through problems step by step whenever he gets stuck on things in school. Drives him crazy! He is a person who hates systematic approaches to things, and would much rather just stare at a...
Bedtime Insights
My children at bedtime are kind of like those plates that entertainers spin on poles. The difference is they want to keep spinning madly, while I want them to crash* to the ground. *by crash, I mean GO TO SLEEP. Earnest Parenting: help for parents whose children are...
What is Your Ideal Parenting Picture? Part 3
In my second post on this topic, I asked the following question: How does your ideal parenting picture match up with the reality of your life? Some key ideas from my ideal picture are positive attitude and efforts in school family pursuit of hobbies and sports calm...
How I Saved Over 400 Dollars on Vacation
The whole family enjoyed a great trip to America's Historic Triangle in Virginia last month. In case you are not aware, Jamestown Colony was founded in May of 1607, which makes this year the 400th anniversary. The older boys studied America's colonies last spring in...
Honoring Some Heroes
On our vacation we stopped and spent some time at the United Flight 93 Temporary Memorial in Shanksville, PA. When I was looking up our vacation route last month I noticed that we were going to drive within about a half hour of the crash site of Flight 93. As soon as...
What is Your Ideal Parenting Picture? Part 2
Alrighty, everyone's had some time to ponder the question. Here's what my ideal picture looks like: The boys all enjoy learning and we work together with positive attitudes to complete our lessons each day. After lunch (since we finished all the work before then)...
Humble is a Good Pie Flavor
Perhaps the boys aren't the only ones with negative baggage about school. Well. If you were following the comments to my post about frustrating days last week, you'll see some very wise words from Stu. To get the whole thing, read the comments and also his article...
What is Your Ideal Parenting Picture?
I've thought about this topic several times over the past few months, and thought I'd put it to you the readers. When you picture the ideal family, what does that look like? (This answer isn't going to be the same for each family of course.) How many kids do you...
A Much More Successful Day
Well. Today was a complete change from yesterday. Hubby put the boys to bed right after soccer last night, which means they went down right around 7:30. Unbelievably, there were still children asleep after 8:30 this morning. We got up and going, and zipped right...