Who doesn’t love playing with an infant? We all love peek-a-boo, tickle, and chase games accompanied by bursts of giggles and laughter. When they are preschoolers we love finger plays, songs, and tea parties. But as children move into school …
DIY Polaroid® Photo Frame
Remember the good ol’ days of Polaroid® film? We’re bringing back this vintage staple with a fun and easy-to-make photo frame to capture your very own #thisismotherhood moments. MATERIALS 8.5” x 11” paper or cardstock Markers, crayons or paint Ruler …
Play Is Not Just a Little Word
If your world is like mine, it is full of checklists, shopping lists, reading lists and even a bucket list. But I bet the one list you do not have for your family is a play list! Most of us …
The Memory of Every Day
This was my first year as a mom of a full-time student. My littlest is still home with me in the mornings, but my oldest daughter, Iris, is a full-fledged, all-day kindergartner and proud of it. As it is our …
Wholeness Within
The normal to-do list is overwhelming. The holiday to-do list makes me wish for hospitalization or incarceration just to escape it. The truth is we all can escape it by cultivating an interior life of wholeness. In my opinion, wholeness …
Four Strategies to Raise Compassionate Kids
In a me-centered, selfie society, how do you raise compassionate, tender-hearted children? Teaching kids to care about others takes thought and effort. Knowing it wouldn’t just happen spontaneously, my husband and I came up with four strategies to help our …
Laborare est Ludere: To Work Is Play
Laborare est Ludere There is a Latin phrase derived from the Benedictine motto that goes “laborare est orare” (to work is to pray), often said simply as work is prayer. As an adult, I can all too easily view the …
How Play Can Grow the Imagination
It was good. This one word describes God’s creation, the original playground for the first kids. It was a good garden. So God’s children were free to eat from every tree in sight, except one. That park was a widely …