They’re Posers

If you spend any time on any social media platform or if you engage at all in the world, you likely realize that civil discourse has lost at least a bit of its footing in any conversation involving differences of opinions, especially around hot-button topics, like...

Strike a Pose

I don’t know if it’s all mamas or if it just happens to be me, but whichever it is, I do know that I regularly have issues with my cell phone’s storage because of the number of pictures I take and then store in my phone’s photo app. While it is supposed to sync with...

Frog and Toad and Nostalgia

When our girls were younger, we always made a point of reading with them and it has been such a wonderful adventure seeing the ways reading has influenced them and the ways it created some special core memories. If you’re a fan of Inside Out and Inside Out 2, then you...

They Are a Treat

It’s that time of year, the time of costumes and fall festivals and trunk or treating and harvest-themed games. This year, I finally managed to get my act together in time to volunteer to participate in our church’s fall festival and be a part of the popular trunk or...

She Has a Bead on…Beading

When it comes to crafting, my girls still love heading into Michaels and exploring the aisles of creative possibilities, aisles filled with sketch books and artist pencils, markers and paints, miniatures and holiday decor, and so much more. When they were younger,...

Drawing on Their Doodle Prowess

Ever since my girls were little (with them, I tend to use the term, when they were knee-high to a grasshopper) they have been doodlers. In fact, pretty much since they were able to hold a pencil or a marker, we have had different options for them to draw, sketch, and...