We Got Our Lemonade Stand!

Hooray it’s here! Delivered via Fed Ex, no less. Our free lemonade stand. It’s totally cool, surprisingly well made and the kids are ecstatic. The kids decided they wanted to help animals, so we will be donating our sales profits to the Mid Atlantic Great Dane Rescue. We’ve got lemonade, cookies and brownies. Now, if [...]

Crab Wrangling

A favorite summer pass-time of ours is walking down to the river to watch the blue crabs. We’ve been anxiously awaiting their arrival this summer and finally saw a few last week. In summer’s past the kids have loved walking the few blocks to the water to watch the crabs and try to catch one. [...]

Save Your Sour Puss, This is Sweet!

Ahhh, summer is here. The weatherman’s forecast for the rest of the week was hot, hazy and humid. Sounds to me like a great time to have a lemonade stand. Why not? Everyone is garage sale-ing on weekends to eek out a little extra gas money, the kids are getting out of school and the [...]

What We’re Reading

We go to the library about once a week and check out 12-15 books. The kids pick whatever they want and I usually choose a few to read to them. I started keeping the list for personal use and to have some way to track what we’ve covered since we aren’t sticking to a [...]

Science Quest

I’ve been looking for some cool experiments and topics to cover with ds relating to science. So far we’ve been winging it according to his interests (snakes, dinosaurs, endangered species, blue crabs, etc.) I’ve also thrown some stuff out there (weather, planets, volcanoes, birds, etc.) to see if I get any sparks. We’ve managed to [...]

Fascinating Progress of Robin Hatchlings

This is an amazing blog about a Robin’s nest and it shows the daily progression from empty nest, to eggs, to babies, to empty nest again. It is well done and full of wonderful information. We learned so much we didn’t know about these creatures we share our yard with and see every day. [...]

The Sunflower Project

We are looking forward to starting a new project growing sunflowers and tracking bees. We’ve signed up to participate in The Great Sunflower Project and you can too. Check out the link for more info and to get your own starter kit. Ours should arrive any day now and we can’t wait. We’ll keep [...]

Arty Schmarty

Just thought I’d post some of the kids’ artwork. It seems to take over the house at times…the fridge, countertops and dressers are often covered with paintings, collages, models and the like. I’ll post some favorites here and then maybe reclaim some counter space!

Our Geography Project: Post Card Collecting

For the past few months we’ve been swapping post cards with people all over the U.S. and Canada. We joined an online group called Post Card Kids and have collected some really cool cards. We have put up a map and we highlight the cities and states we receive cards from as we trade. It’s [...]