Tag Archives: Family Fun

I started the summer with a pretty stellar plan. I'd get up at 5:30 every morning, log a few hours of work, and let the kids have some relaxed TV time while practicing their budding independence by co...

Kids are forward-looking folks - that is, they're always looking ahead to the next thing. Waiting doesn't come easy. But that same sense of anticipation can be a source of fun, when you channel it in ...

I am a big fan of messy science. I do it in my classroom with 3rd and 4th graders, and I do it at home with my own boys. In my mind, the messier the science, the more learning that happens! Emerson is...

Our adult children are raising their own children now and it causes me to think back to what I did "back in the day" to make summer fun simpler. It's summer and there's so much fun to be had! Here are...

Summit Christian Academy has partnered with AllMomDoes to sponsor this post and bring you this information. I'm sure you've heard about STEM. But if you haven't, it's an acronym that stands for "Scien...

We live in a time when even some wedding invites are sent online, so it may seem funny to pay to slowly mail a message, when it could be sent both faster and for free via email. It's definitely not th...

We started this summer with great dreams of down time and travel and recreation. And now, summer is quickly ticking toward fall. And those great dreams have yet to find legs. Competing work schedules,...

Listen, I don't think I'm a good mom, and I've failed to follow every summer activity list I've ever cut out of a magazine. We're an awesome house. But we're a crazy house. At first I thought I should...

Does your family love animals? Ours does. That's why one of our favorite summertime activities is to visit local animal rescues. We prefer rescues for more unusual animals like chinchillas, rabbits, a...

I'm one of those people that has always driven by Wild Waves, looked at it from the road and thought, "Not for me." That is, until I got the chance to experience it for this review! Kristina and I hea...