Candy Land

A wise friend is mentoring / teaching / inspiring me to remember why I do family childcare . We are working our way through a series of tough questions she […]

Mediocre

This morning we had a few melt downs and a little craziness .  So much to the point when a mom left she said ” Have a mediocre day ! […]

O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree !

Some of my best memories hang on my Christmas tree.  Each year we try to add an ornament that represents something BIG that happened during the year.  Example : This […]

Community

Every day is a good day.  Even on bad days we can find something good.  Most of our days are excellent.  Hear me well…today was not a bad day… not […]

Winter seems like a time that our littles are more tired. I feel like (  Not a researched proven theory… this is a Debbie thought ) that the weather just […]

Oh Evergreen …

Today our newest friend started to school. He wasn’t really NEW NEW as his big brother Gabe has been coming to school here for months.  This is Jude .  He […]

There’s More Than One Way To Skin A Cat

Today I sat for bits and pieces with children playing at this center.  I wanted to share with you how many different things can be ” taught ” with one […]

Christmas is Coming 2017

Christmas erasers to match, sort, stack , count and pattern become much more fun when they are stored in a tiny cute basket .   I put this together last […]

Thundercake !

It was hard to get out of bed this morning with the gentle sound of the rain hitting the mud kitchen outside our bedroom window.  But alas we did and […]

Just A Little Christmas

  I PLANNED to blog about our loose parts area today but Christmas broke out everywhere .   Children’s brains are wired to automatically do things like this.  With no […]