Pink, gray, blue, and copper – guest room makeover

Our guest room has been a rather sad welcome to our guests the past two years. It has served as storage space, laundry folding room, and craft room. The bed has been covered with random sheets and my quilt from grad school and the yellow side table from Emma's nursery was not the most appealing …

Countdown to Christmas – Our Book and Activity Advent Calendar

Growing up we always had those cardboard advent calendars with the little pieces of chocolate in them that helped us countdown to Christmas. We loved them! And loved the thrill of getting closer and closer to the big day. Last year, when Emma had just turned 2, I scoured Pinterest for other countdown ideas. I …

Personalized Visual Schedule for Toddlers and Preschoolers

One of my very first blog posts was all about the "challenges" we were facing with our newly three year old daughter. One major obstacle for awhile now has been getting out the door in a reasonable amount of time on weekday mornings. I am a teacher and therefore have to be up and to …

Autumn Panzanella Salad

Thanksgiving Break is officially over. It was a wonderful time spent with family and friends and that always makes it difficult to head back to the routine. So, I'm going to just rewind a bit and soak up the good smells, delicious food, and memories made and share with you the Panzanella Salad (Bread Salad) …

DIY Hand Warmers with Essential Oils

This morning I had a little extra time, so I decided to give the hand warmers a try that I had linked to in my last post. The doTERRA website has a wealth of DIY ideas and I really loved the idea of their recent post on hand warmers as we start to head toward …

2 Days Until Thanksgiving

Ahhh, the teacher life. I saw a recent "On This Day" post on Facebook from 5 years ago where apparently I had nothing better to do over the Thanksgiving break than sit outside in the sunshine and drink a beer at 1:00 in the afternoon... My how the times have changed. We have a whole …

5 Steps to Starting a Toy Rotation

As I mentioned in my last post, in the evenings and on weekends, Emma often has a hard time choosing from her many toys and ends up moving from activity to activity so quickly that it results in a disastrous living room, inability to focus on something for any sustained amount of time, and therefore …

Musings from the bed of a toddler

I was in the midst of writing a post about my can't-live-without essential oils when my husband came home. I paused so that we could check in about our days and talk about the Parent Teacher conference I had at E's preschool today. Miss E just turned 3 two weeks ago and rapidly entered the …

Behind the Scenes of Camp Emma: A 3 Year Old Birthday Party

We officially have a three-year old in our house! It really is amazing how quickly the time goes. This year, E really got excited about the whole birthday thing so I wanted to get a little more into a theme than we have in years past. We love the outdoors and live in beautiful Colorado, …

An Introduction

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