Pin It Every year as soon as it gets warm we walk lots of the local nature center trails. Blanford Nature Center is one of the local nature centers we visit regularly, because it is free to get in and the kids can get right into nature up close it is a much loved place. [...]
Pin It A few weeks ago a lot of people around us were keeping a very close eye on the local river due to the historic flooding happening in our area. For a period of about 2 weeks we have got almost non stop rain, because the ground could no longer hold any more water [...]
Pin It With us visiting the butterfly gardens a few times in March and April the kids had fun making a super easy butterfly craft for kids! I picked up this craft kit from Oriental Trading Company for the kids and set it out on a tray so it was ready to go when they [...]
Pin It One of our favorite field trips every year is to Fredrick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture to see the Butterflies! During the month of March and April every year they host the countries biggest display of butterflies, it is a 15,000 square foot tropical conservatory where more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying around freely. [...]
Pin It Thank you to the Allstate Foundation and National Safety Council for sponsoring this post. Check out Drive it Home, a website by and for parents, dedicated to keeping our teen drivers safe. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Drive it Home presentation here in Grand Rapids, this event was put [...]
Pin It Since Mother’s Day is just around the Corner I figured I would highlight some great deals going on over on Amazon to be exact there are over 100 mothers day gift ideas on this list, something for every mom on this list Jewelry, Electronics, Gardening, Books, Household Items, and more!! Each of these [...]
Pin It With 5 boys around our house we tend to have a loud and busy house, and have to regularly think of activities to keep them out of trouble and to get their energy out. So when given the chance to review Dr. Craft’s Active Play Books for the Schoolhouse Review Crew I was very [...]
Pin It Thank you to the Allstate Foundation and National Safety Council for sponsoring this post. Check out Drive it Home, a website by and for parents, dedicated to keeping our teen drivers safe. In the next couple months our oldest will be starting drivers training. I can say it will be nice to have [...]
Pin It I am aware of how important children being able to quickly recall their math facts is for children, it makes learning upper level math so much easier! So when given the opportunity to review Math Rider for the Schoolhouse Review Crew, a fun way for students to review addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division [...]
Pin It Jake has been off of work this past week on a much needed vacation. One of our goals for his time off was to do some home renovations, and pull up the carpet in our living room, then pull up the wood floor underneath and put down new flooring like we did in [...]
Pin It Every year as soon as it gets warm we walk lots of the local nature center trails. Blanford Nature Center is one of the local nature centers we visit regularly, because it is free to get in and the kids can get right into nature up close it is a much loved place. [...]
Pin It A few weeks ago a lot of people around us were keeping a very close eye on the local river due to the historic flooding happening in our area. For a period of about 2 weeks we have got almost non stop rain, because the ground could no longer hold any more water [...]
Pin It With us visiting the butterfly gardens a few times in March and April the kids had fun making a super easy butterfly craft for kids! I picked up this craft kit from Oriental Trading Company for the kids and set it out on a tray so it was ready to go when they [...]
Pin It One of our favorite field trips every year is to Fredrick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture to see the Butterflies! During the month of March and April every year they host the countries biggest display of butterflies, it is a 15,000 square foot tropical conservatory where more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying around freely. [...]
Pin It Thank you to the Allstate Foundation and National Safety Council for sponsoring this post. Check out Drive it Home, a website by and for parents, dedicated to keeping our teen drivers safe. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Drive it Home presentation here in Grand Rapids, this event was put [...]
Pin It Since Mother’s Day is just around the Corner I figured I would highlight some great deals going on over on Amazon to be exact there are over 100 mothers day gift ideas on this list, something for every mom on this list Jewelry, Electronics, Gardening, Books, Household Items, and more!! Each of these [...]
Pin It With 5 boys around our house we tend to have a loud and busy house, and have to regularly think of activities to keep them out of trouble and to get their energy out. So when given the chance to review Dr. Craft’s Active Play Books for the Schoolhouse Review Crew I was very [...]
