My two older boys have been exploring some historical fiction with the I Survived series of books. Honestly, it is probably something they would have never picked up on their own, but they were each assigned to do an historical fiction book talk so we gave them a try. The great thing about trying something… Continue reading Exploring Children’s Historical Fiction
Some weeks are certainly better than others. Last week was an “others” kind of week. I thought it was going to be a good one. We celebrated my son’s 12th birthday Sunday. God help me! It seriously goes by way too fast. We made his favorite loaded nachos for dinner, and the boys were all… Continue reading Bad Weeks Happen
Every time I run a race my middle one always says, “I can do that. I want to run the next one.” So this year I signed him up for Finish For A Guinness on the condition that he actually train for it. And he did. We did training runs, and he actually started listening… Continue reading His First 5K
