A few years ago, my family visited Grandfather Mountain in Linville, North Carolina (about 70 miles from Asheville). This is an amazing vacation destination – but not for the faint of heart. By the time you get to the top of the mountain, you literally feel like you are on top of the world.
Tomorrow night, my family will get to be under the Big Top for the Greatest Show on Earth! We are so excited! Up till now, my kids experience with the circus is this:
Sunflowers are such a cheery flower. They grow taller than most other plants, dwarfing the tallest child and even some adults. You just can’t see full blooming sunflowers swaying in the wind with the white puffy clouds hanging on a blue sky without feeling a sense of ‘rightness in the world’ – even if the…
Years ago I was newly married, helping my husband with a group of teens and excited about impressing them all with a batch of homemade icecream. We had received an icecream freezer as a wedding gift and though I had never made any homemade icecream, I was excited to try! I found an easy recipe…
I have only been in a canoe a handful of times, but it’s one of those things that I want to do more. On one of our early dates with my husband, we went on a canoe trip with a church group. Before we had been in the water 3 minutes, we had not only…
A few years ago on a North Carolina vacation, we went to Emerald Village in Little Switzerland. There we purchased a bag of ‘unsearched rocks’ and got to search for treasures. We found some really pretty little stones and even a few keepers. But to be honest, it always feels a bit ‘touristy’ and not…
I started blogging in February, 2009 and have learned alot in the past 3 years or more. One thing I have experienced is the ebb and flow of passion for my blog. Some days I absolutely love it and can’t write fast enough. Then there comes those ‘other days’. Those are the times that I…
Do you believe that you should let kids tinker? My 10 year old son is fascinated with how things work. He was thrilled when we gave him permission to take his broken CD player apart piece by piece. We gave him the basic ground rules and set him loose. This was a fun adventure for…