Life Lessons and Naked Barbies

A couple years ago, I was over at a friend’s house one day and noticed her little girl changing clothes on her Barbie, only…it looked like her Barbie was wearing a swim suit.  I asked the little girl to show me her doll and sure enough it as “wearing” a bathing suit.  My friend had taken a simple black sharpie and drawn a swimsuit on each of her little girl’s Barbie dolls so that they were never just left lying around “naked.” Fast forward a few years and here I am I standing in the doorway of my kids playroom looking at all the fun toys they have.  Josiah loves cars and blocks and especially trains.  Addi really enjoys puzzles, whipping up something yummy in her kitchen, and playing with her dolls and her dollhouse. ...

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The Plagues

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Moses

The next lesson that I had the privilege of teaching was on the story of God rescuing Moses as a baby.  We read the story and then each kiddo was assigned a character to act out.  We had so much fun.  I captured a few shots of our little "play" on my phone and later that afternoon I made this funny video....

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Joseph

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Choo-choo Josiah's Two Train Party

Josiah, my little buddy-bear, turned 2 and since he is in love with trains we thought it was only appropriate to have his party at our local park that has a train everyone can ride.  We bought tickets for all the kids and parents coming to the party; however, we were not counting on the sudden summer thunderstorm to pop in and "rain on our parade."  The kids played on the playground while we grilled hot dogs, and when the rain started we all ran under a pavilion to open a few presents.  This was not the party I had planned, but I feel we all still had a good time. Cupcakes. Cake table. Condiments and sides train. Birthday Crossing. The birthday boy in his "Choo Choo - I'm 2" t-shirt. Since we got all rained...

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Letter of the Week- Letter Z

Well, friends, this post concludes our Letter of the Week adventure.  And I can't lie...I am thrilled!  It has taken me almost 3 months just to finishes the last four letters of the alphabet because I'm so burnt out.  I wanted to teach my kids that you need to finish the things you begin so we did.  We finally finished the alphabet.  We had lots and lots of fun over the past 10 months and I would gladly do it again, but for now, I'm thankful for the break and for summer fun we are already having. Click on the link below for my Letter Z week curriculum. Addi got to use a q-tip to paint stripes on her zebra. As we are trying to get better about patterns we made a "Zebra" bracelet (alternating black and...

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