Conscious Discipline at Christmas

We are feeling the excitement building about Christmas.  Sometimes littles excitement comes off as nervous energy, more giggling than normal and just a little more chaos in general.  Usually at […]

Thanksgiving Feast Prep

We are STILL prepping for our Thanksgiving  feast.  Yesterday afternoon Randy,G ( our precious grand daughter ) and I went stick hunting.  We roamed the back roads looking for the […]

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Today in  small group we read  ” If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. ”  This is a great book for sequencing but for our littles that is quite a […]

Happy Halloween 2016

We try to keep party days as ” normal ” as possible and sprinkle in themed activities and festive foods. The costumes were great today.  A few years ago I […]

Mary Poppins Much

I love being a family child care provider.   It is the BEST job EVER in the history of ever.  I can be Mary Poppins and get paid while I […]

More Fire Safety Fun

Could we ask for a more beautiful fall day ? As the wind blew and the leaves fell the meaning of ” fall ” came to life for the littles. […]

Inside Out

That is what we were today.  Inside out.  We played inside and outside and sometimes our emotions  were turned inside out.  We had a lot of high emotions today.  We […]

Adjusting our Sails

Yesterday , I ended the day frustrated.  I HATE when I do that.   Nap time was horrendous.   HORRENDOUS  I tell ya ! 🙂   It is such a […]

The Senator Visits

Today we had a special visitor join  our preschool family . Senator Jim Hendren stopped by to see what we do.  This was Senator Hendren’s first visit at Bright Beginnings. […]