Each year, I usually buy the kids little Halloween tshirts or onesies, but this year, I decided to make each child unique Halloween outifts for pumpkin patch photographs. Here’s what I came up with: houndstooth pants with orange pockets for Bryce and a fun patchwork dress for Lydia. For the pants, I used the flat-front pants pattern and pocket pants pattern…
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I made this craft last year, but this year I did it again with both children. I began with a big piece of easel paper taped to the wall (this was actually a reused piece of paper as they already painted on the other side). I made sure it was at a height that was accessible to both children. I…
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As a special education teacher, I generally worked with children with more severe disabilities, many of whom also had sensory-related issues. This means I had to find creative and engaging ways to target sensory-related activities while simultaneously recognizing my students may not have had the safety awareness to avoid putting small/unsafe things in their mouths. I used alternative forms of…
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Somehow, I almost completely forgot to post about the kids’ 1st & 3rd birthday party at the farm. Since the kids both have September birthdays and they are so young, I figure we can do joint birthday parties for the first few years. We held the party at a local teaching farm at a county park on Sunday the 16th,…
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So, in my quest to figure out what the heck it is I am doing with the rest of my life, I have been trying to do a better job implementing a ‘homeschool’ curriculum for Lydia. She just turned 3, so she would qualify for a PreK type program if I had the money to enroll her in one; so…
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