Whenever I think of graduation, I think of high school and college.  I always forget about those little graduations of 5th grade and 8th grade. This year my middle child graduated from 5th grade and will be moving on to the middle school next year. It’s a bit scary having another middle schooler in the [...]

Okay so we think we have the after school activity figured out for the boy. Kung Fu. My mother in law suggested it as we mulled over the few options we had (we never heard back from the dance school 30 min outside of town!). So then we googled and asked friends who had their [...]

My middle schooler brought home after school club information. These clubs are pretty cool, offering some real world experience to them. They also cost money. Fortunately no one is turned away. So we sat and poured over all of the options and I realized she is a lot like me. She wanted to join a [...]

Yesterday the kids started school. Sadly the boy said it made him nervous to see my camera so I put it away and got no pictures of the first day.  We spent the morning running them all over the place and getting them started. The middle dd had no problems whatsoever, she even sat and [...]