I'm doing a friends cut. I don't use fliters on my journal and I don't like opening myself up so much for a lot of people I don't really know. So if you don't really post or if I don't think we have anything in common, I'm going to cut you. Please feel free to add me on Facebook. I don't want to lose contact with people; I just don't need ( Read more... )

As a preschool teacher, I was always horrified by how much paper was used for art at school. There were many kids who would take a piece of paper, scribble all over it, take another piece of paper, scribble, etc., for the entire art time. The result was a ton of paper being sent home with the children, most of which was probably thrown away ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting felt board pictures posted. Tim wants credit for helping make the felt board, so here's the credit (happy, Tim? ;) ). I told him what I was picturing and he figured out the best way to accomplish that.


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The Business of Being Born is available to watch online. I highly recommend it to anyone planning to have a child or who is interested in childbirth. You can also get it through Netflix.

Wow. That's all I can say right now.

This better get reversed by the time Zack is 5. Or I have to go get my teaching credential for elementary school.

There was a post in one of my communities this morning about environmental responsibility that I thought was really well written. None of the text behind the cut is mine; the person is referring to another post and her comments are to someone else.

( I'm reposting it here, if you care to read it. )

5.6 earthquake about 10 miles away
Yes, we're all okay.

According to our patron saint Linus VanPelt, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the most sincere pumpkin patch on Halloween and then flies through the air to deliver toys to all the good little children in the world ( Read more... )

So we have this wall around our entire house that has a locked door at the front ( Read more... )

( Breastfeeding story to become an adopt-a-mom )