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Muffin Tin Monday- Breakfast with a Swap

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I am starting a month long series of Muffin Tin Monday breakfast tins today. This week’s breakfast features two animals we saw on our visit to my sister Kate’s house in New York. She took her two children, JDaniel and I to several farms as part of local farm tour event. One of the farms had cows. JDaniel speaks cow so he had a lot of fun there. Continue Reading

Free Personalized Cards from Tiny Prints for Teachers

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I taught for twenty-one years. One of the reasons I think I went into teaching was because I had wonderful teachers. I remember most of them fondly. Each was amazing in their own way. The teacher that stands out most is my mom. I was never in her class per se. I was able to watch how she taught her students and cared for each of them as individuals Continue Reading

Mice on Main Street And In My House

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Here in Greenville, S.C. we have a great mouse hunt on Main Street. Bronze mice are scattered up and down the street. Some are easy to find and others are quite difficult. I took my nephews down to search for them. We had a print out of clues that I found on the Mouse on Main website. The mice are very popular and have even had a children’s book Continue Reading

Two Red Ys

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We were exploring downtown Greenville and came across this red sculpture. It is titled Untitled. When JDaniel and I stopped to look at it, I asked him what he thought it was. He replied “Ys”. It really does look like two ys stacked together.This sculpture is sort of symbolic of conversations I have with JDaniel some days. They seem to be filled Continue Reading

Visiting the Children’s Museum of the Upstate

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I mentioned two weeks ago that I splurged and went to The Children's Musuem of the Upstate. At $12 for both JDaniel and I, the visit was a special treat. Here are some pictures from our visit: The water play area was really wet. I got wet when he discovered you could point the toys and other objects at mommy. I didn't have smock like Continue Reading

Visiting Happy Cow Farm

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JDaniel loved walking over the store at Happy Cow to get ice cream. The peach ice cream we got was wonderful. They liked checking out the cows. Each thought the cows were really smelly. JDaniel and his friend Joe loved this game. I don't think they were playing it right, but they had fun. Visiting the baby cows was fun too. The best Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Create a Car

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  JDaniel had a create a car lunch. There were two whole wheat bread cars along with a mozzarella cheese car. Ham was used for upholstering the car. Bananas were the car wheels. Carrots were the windshield wipers. Continue Reading

Birthday Books and a Birthday Box

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This week we are celebrating not only the blog's birthday but my mom's 70th birthday. JDaniel and I read two books about birthdays and decorated a box to hold the gift cards we are giving my mom for her birthday. Links below are affiliate links. Bella- Birthday Party by Mandy Stanley is about a little bunny named Bella that comes upon a Continue Reading

Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Soup- Revisiting K

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Mrs. Matlock's Alphabe today is called Alphabet Soup. She is having everyone in the meme point out a post that we loved. I really enjoyed writing about my sister Kate and her one special Easter egg in a post called just that Kate and One Special Egg. I hope you enjoy reading it. Continue Reading

Reflecting on My Freshman Year of Blogging

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JDaniel Doing Yardwork

I have just come to the end of my freshman year of blogging. Much like my freshman year in I learned a lot. There were ups, downs, missteps, and glorious moments. I would like to share with you some of the things I learned this year. They may be things you learned, don’t care about, or are learning along with me. I started out with a Continue Reading

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