3rd Adoption anniversary

Today is the 3rd anniversary of the day we became a family. We celebrate our adoption anniversary by doing something fun each year. The first year we stayed here for a week and went to Universal Studios and Wet & Wild. The next year we stayed close to home and went out for dinner and dessert. This year we decided to go away again. We’ll be visting Cypress Gardens for two days and staying here, in the suites, for...

More links

Here are some websites my eight year old daughter has been visting. Ardene dress upart padNasa KidsSky Breeze dress up gamesThe Space PlacePaintingChildrens stories Share ...

Mimi Doe

I subscribe to Mimi Doe’s Spiritual Parenting newsletter. As with everything else, I take what I need and leave the rest. Here’s what I “took” away from her last e-mail. A SEASON OF ABUNDANCEWe can change our mindset and approach each encounter with our children from a higher place – a place centered in Spirit and love. When we parent with love, our children take away a positive cherished...

Day 150

Ren shared this cute site on her blog. I’ll show it to the girls when they wake up tomorrow but I played with it first. Here’s the girl I created… Share ...

Day 149

Our dirt bike is up and running once again (Thanks Gary!). Shawna is SO GOOD on it! Right now, she’s the perfect height and weight for it. Jacqueline is still to small to ride herself and she and Billy are to much weight on it together. Cimion rides it but he’s getting to tall for it. They mostly ride in our yard but our neighbor has been letting ride on his empty lot before he puts down grass. I have to get some...

Shawna & the cell phone

Shawna’s friend got one of those Fire Fly kiddie cell phones for her birthday a while back. It’s an actual working phone…the phone itself is $80 and the minutes are 25 cents a minute and they expire in 90 days. Plus…you have 30 days to add minutes, when the old ones expire, or they cancel your account. Like we used to say in Brooklyn…if you think that’s a good deal, I got a bridge I’d...

Everyday Blessings

I’ve blogged about the book Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Jon & Myla Kabat-Zinn here and here. In the back of the book, they list 12 exercises for mindful parenting. I wrote about the first three in the other posts. The 4th one is: 4. Be mindful of your expectations of your children and consider whether they are truly in your child’s best interest. Also, be aware of how you...

Day 147

We had a neighbor boy (9 yrs. old) here the other day. After he left, Jacqueline was telling me that he was trying to hit Shawna (my 11 year old) with a stick and that Shawna told him to stop, which he did. Then, he was trying to hit my son (13 years old) with a baseball. Again, they asked him to stop. Jacqueline told me that Shawna asked him “Why are you like that? Where do you think you learned to be like...

Day 146

I submitted posts to two recent blog carnivals…one was this post about Jacqueline for the Carnival of Family Life and the other was this post about Shawna for the Carnival of Homeschooling. Share ...

Links to Unschooling Voices #4

Before I get to the links, Schuyler over at Warts and all, said she felt that she didn’t really answer the question of the month with her post and added an addendum to it. I thought her original post was great, but because I value her thoughts on unschooling, anything extra is like the cherry on top. Thank you to the following bloggers and web site owners for adding a link to Unschooling Voices #4. I’ll keep this...