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Watercolor Painting and Drawing With Kids

Painting has always been something I loved, yet it was only recently that I started dabbling in watercolor painting. I traditionally favored oil painting, but since the boys are a little young (and impatient) for such an unwashable, slow-drying art medium, I decided to start with watercolors, gouache, and acrylic paint with them, as well […]

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Celebrating HER Story With Inspired Gift Ideas

March is National Women’s History Month, and all month long I’ve been reading and learning about amazing, brave women in history who have changed our lives. I’ve been reading about them with my sons, who admire strong women. All women today live better lives because of the achievement of so many women before us, and […]

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A Connected Family

We are a family of four that enjoys being close and connected. I work from a home office, my husband works several counties away weekdays and many weekends, and my sons play in our family room or backyard when they aren’t at school or at activities, so we spend quite a bit of time apart […]

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The Slow Days

I would love to write best-selling books. I would love to sell my paintings on Etsy, find internet fame via a fun podcast, and create a series of photography workshops that sell out as soon as they are listed, but this may never happen for me, and I know it’s because I never even really […]

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Join the Read Aloud Challenge this March!

We love to read aloud in this house, and typically take turns (sometimes I read to the boys, and other times to boys read aloud to me). It was the single most fabulous thing we started to do together in the last year, because I love to read, and now, so do my kids. ReadAloud.org […]

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