Recently I was part of the committee that worked to put Buddy Benches at my kids' school. A dad at our school built the benches and...

This was a post I did for the Jacksonville Moms Blog with some of my favorite books for the first day of school. 

A little piece I wrote for the Jacksonville Moms Blog about how much we love our school.  It's worth a click to read it.  

I was asked to do a short segment on our local news about Talking To Your Kids About Their School Day.  You can view the video here .

Another post I did for the Jax Moms Blog .  It's a good read if you have a tough time getting your kids to open up at the end of the ...

Sand is a great medium for little hands to practice writing.  Read some more ideas for your water table over at the Jacksonville Moms B...

So I looked at the calendar yesterday and realized, holy crap, school starts back in 1 month.  1 MONTH.  I've reviewed Laptop Lunches ...

I had a reader email me and ask me what costume we used for last year's Character Parade {when he was in Kindergarten}.  Last year, Col...

This year for our annual Character Parade at Cole's school we decided to make a really cool I Spy costume.  A few years back we hosted ...

A few more pictures from our adventures with Laptop Lunch Boxes .  We're a year and a half in to using them and we still love them.  I ...

These are the back-to-school survival kits that I made for the kids' teachers last year.  I hope the school supply cakes that I'm w...

I'm getting ready for back-to-school and I just came across an idea I had saved for Cole's teacher last year.  I was going to make ...

It's August and for most of us that means back-to-school is right around the corner.  We still have a few more weeks of vacation but I...

Well we've just wrapped up our first full year of Kindergarten and with that came lunches.  Back at the beginning of the year I reviewe...

My oldest started Kindergarten this year and we decided to invest in the Laptop Lunch Box system for him.  At first I was really hesitant ...