The other day I was doing a math lesson with my Pre-K’ers and I gave them each a small container with dried beans in them. In an effort to try to keep my kids from YELLING OUT how many beans are in their cups I told them to count them quietly and then raise their [...]

James has had a cold that he has been fighting for the last few weeks and I thought that I totally bipassed it. I was so proud of my amazing immune system (thanks to being a teacher) and was getting ready to pat myself on the back for (almost) making it through another cold and [...]

I was on the phone with a friend the other day and we were talking about all that went on in our lives in 2009. I remember thinking, “nothing happened this last year in my life… it has been a pretty boring year”. However, as we started to talk more and more I began to [...]