My mother is the type of woman who could tell you the name of pretty much any plant in her neighbor hood. My grandmother (her stepmother) was the same way. I grew up knowing I could ask (and still do) but for some reason I didn’t take the time to learn the names myself. […]

All summer long I unpacked mass kits and set them up for display and all summer long I thought about how lovely it would be when our children got to experience using ours. While we have had a mass kits for years it’s old and admittedly had fallen out of use.
I bought it many […]

Nature Journals
and my high school talk from the conference
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Both at Family-Centered Press

I was talking to a friend a few days ago about our plans to really make it a great nature study year. She has similar plans and her excitement rivals mine.
We started discussing ideas and then books and I told her about a book I had reviewed recently that claims to use the […]

Friday evening dinner at Elizabeth’s. It was delicious!

Friday evening flat tire heading back to the hotel. Mary Ellen and I hit a HUGE pothole. There was a kind man who tried to help us but in the end it was my husband Tim who came to our rescue. That’s him […]