It is no secret to anyone that knows me that I have a fondness for gracious living. When we homeschooled and I wasn’t working so much, the kids and I would stop for tea every day.
It was a time for them to learn to try new things, a time to relax, a time to bond. I loved it and so did the kids – for the most part they are all tea drinkers to this day. [click to continue…]
Prom season is sort of like hunting season except the gear costs more.
Way more.
Apparently the average parent spends around a thousand dollars on prom. My kids don’t do prom since we homeschooled and this year my daughter, now in school, had no interest in it. That’s good because apparently I need to start saving up. [click to continue…]
Gwyneth Paltrow seems to keep herself on the cutting edge, balancing precariously on a barbwire fence between parenting innovations and OMG what is she going to do next?
Well, what she did next was to create a line of string bikinis for girls — girls that are sizes 4, 6, and 8. Mothers across the Internet are outraged, claiming that Paltrow is sexualizing little girls. [click to continue…]