Life after loss with one teenager, two surviving triplets and a rainbow baby
Lately I’ve been inching closer to the illusion that I am Suzy Homemaker (minus the perfectly coifed hair, homemade meals that taste good and super cute apron). I’ve been creating all kinds of crafts and activities for the kids at home and every time they love one I think this is blogging gold maybe I really could be a craft blogger. We created a homemade theater, homeschool activities and I even gave you my tips for removing crayon and permanent marker {Read More}
I have been searching for ways to find one activity that meets the learning needs of all my kids. I know motherhood comes with a multitasking requirement but my mind sort of starts spinning when someone is saying “how do you spell happy?” while someone else is asking me to draw a circle and someone else needs scissors and someone else is reciting the quadratic equation formula. So this week when I found ONE activity that worked for everyone, just {Read More}
Once we decided I would homeschool McKenna my mind started spinning about how I was going to do this. Where do I find worksheets? How much time do I spend on handwriting? Spelling? Counting? I quickly went to twitter and asked on my Facebook page and found some great resources to create my plan. And then we began. And her difficulty with small motor tasks made my little worksheets a failure. Writing was causing her to fatigue (and get frustrated) {Read More}
I can’t believe we are more than half way through our first year of homeschooling. I think my favorite part has been letting go of the “rules” a little bit and thinking outside the box to help McKenna learn. Because of her medical history her small motor skills are delayed and she fatigues quickly when writing. I’ve struggled with how to help her learn early writing skills while working on emerging reading too. This is an exercise we now use {Read More}
Somewhere soon after his fifth birthday my sweet little Parker went from loving Dora and Diego to asking for Batman figures and wondering if we were going to let him see the Green Lantern (the answer was a big no followed by a long whyyyyyyy Mommmy?). His interest in all of these new toys and characters was followed quickly by disregarding the five year-old friendly games he used to play online. Ever since, I’ve been in search of computer games {Read More}
As Easter approaches I’m wracking my brain for ways to fit an egg or two into our daily learning. One of my favorites from this week was using eggs to work on the concept of patterns. For the three year old, just coloring the egg in a two color pattern was enough. For the five year olds, we talked about different patterns, adding in different shapes and colors and we worked on learning about the meaning of horizontal and vertical. {Read More}
I'm Jessica, 30-something mom to five, four in my arms and one in my heart.
On any given day you will find me taxi-ing a teenager, mopping up our latest "art project" and trying to remember when I turned the crock pot on… all the while, looking for the closest Starbucks drive thru. more
