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Lunch and Breakfast Ideas with Pumpkins for Kids

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  October has been a crazy and busy month. On Wednesday we went to the pumpkin patch with JDaniel's class, rushed from the farm the patch was on to his speech assessment and then to a local park to visit with some playgroup friends we haven't seen in ages. Thankfully the park is less than a mile from the testing site. The farm was Continue Reading

Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn.

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Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn.

Have you ever had a dream that you found gold at the end of the rainbow? Well, a hen has a dream that she will find a hidden treasure trove of corn and she sets out to find it in this wonderful book called Gimme Cracked Corn and I will Share by Kevin O'Malley.The hen convinces another hen to help her seek out the corn that she has dreamt she will Continue Reading

Halloween Tips : Trick or Treating Etiquette

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Halloween Tips: Trick or Treating Etiquette

As Halloween draws closer and closer I thought it would be a good time to think about they kind of etiquette we would like our children to display while they are trick or treating. Trick or treating  around our neighborhoods gives us a wonderful opportunity to interact with neighbors and share our attempts to help our children learn to display good Continue Reading

Lunch Idea- Fall Bento Lunch

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Lunch Idea- Fall Bento Lunch

JDaniel has started to have lunch at school on Wednesday. They call it late stay at his preschool. I call it more time to work on socialization and have lunch at school. Oh! and time to run an errand after the Mentor Mom's group ends at 11:20 a.m. I guess it doesn't matter what we call it. We both get a just a little bit longer to get things done. Continue Reading

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves- Read.Explore.Learn.

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This week we looked at the wonderful book Fletcher and the Falling LeavesFletcher the fox finds that his favorite tree has started to lose its leaves. Fetcher panics. He does everything in his power to help the tree keep its leaves, but it seems futile. The leaves keep falling off and other animals keep carting them off.By the end of the book, Continue Reading

Some of My Guest Posts from Other Sites for September

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Every one in awhile I like to give you heads up on guest posts that I have written for other blogs or websites.Today I thought I would share them with you. If you feel so lead, I would love for you to visit them, but I totally understand if all you have time for is to read over the list below. Guest Posts from Other Sites Guest Posts for Kids Continue Reading

Lunch Idea- Apples for Lunch

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Last Wednesday was Johnny Appleseed's birthday and I made JDaniel an apples lunch. It was filled with all kinds of foods made of apples or made to look like apples.He had a ham and Colby Jack cheese sandwich on the inside of the bread. The outside of the bread had a thin layer of apple butter and I stenciled an apple on the apple butter using Continue Reading

Creating a Tide Pool at the Beach

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Creating a Tide Pool at the Beach

The book I want to share with you this week Life in a Tide Pool by Allan Fowler.  JDaniel loves reading about animal life and I thought it would be wonderful to find an easy reader on beach life for us to look over together. When we were at the beach we built our own tide pool. We had to start by digging a big hole in a flat part Continue Reading

Starfish Muffin Tin Meal for Kids

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Starfish Muffin Tin Meal for Kids

Yes, I know I am a day behind. I usually share a food creation with you on Monday, but this week I am running a little behind. I did make a fun starfish muffin tin meal for kids to share with you.We were at the beach most of last week and I am a still trying to get back on course. We had a wonderful time away, but now I am trying to get back to our Continue Reading

Spending Time at the Beach

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Last week we headed to my family's favorite place to vacation in Myrtle Beach. My guys love the Dune Village Resort. It  is right on the beach and has two indoor water park areas. JDaniel started counting down to the day we would leave for the beach a week earlier. Every morning started with a call down the stairs asking if it was time to pack his Continue Reading

Homemade Halloween Costume Parade

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Have you started to think about Halloween at your house? JDaniel announced early in September that he wanted to be Fetch the dog from the Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman show on PBS.  I hadn't been thinking about Halloween at that point in time, but apparently, it was on his mind.  Knowing I wouldn't find a Fetch costume at the store. I knew I would have Continue Reading

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