Blake’s Birth Story

April 26, 2020

When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, I really wanted to do a water birth, but being inexperienced and clueless, I kept my thoughts to myself. When I became pregnant with Buddy in summer of 2007, I wanted a different experience than I had with my daughter. I sought out a midwife rather than a doctor and I made it clear I wanted to do a water birth (unbeknownst to me in the beginning that this would be an at home water birth. Naive me thought water births could be done in hospital or ...

Parenting

Kid Friendly Things to Do

April 1, 2020

I have been working on this list of kid friendly things to do far longer than I intended to, but it was time to hit publish. I will continue to add more kid friendly things to do as I find more things, and will continue to update my Educational Resources page as I come across more resources. ...

Parenting

Math Minecraft Coloring Sheets

March 21, 2020

I originally shared this post on Life as Leels like four years ago. Sadly, I can still say that Minecraft is popular in our home which I guess works out! I still know nothing about the game or how to play it myself, but since my kids enjoy it so much; these math Minecraft coloring sheets are ...

Crafting

Crafting with Cricut for Dummies

January 1, 2020

Let me preface this post, by stating that while it is a humorous post (mostly making fun of myself), there are tips that may save you some time, money and frustration. Additionally, this post was originally written (by myself) in September 2016. As of this date, the canvases we created are ...

Parenting

504 Plan vs IEP

December 6, 2019

This post was originally written for another site of mine in May 2017. I have updated the post and am sharing it with you now. We had done an IEP with Blake from Kindergarten until about third grade for his speech, but we had never done a 504 plan. I am not an expert by any means, but I did ...

Parenting

BEWARE: Kidnapping Scam

July 10, 2019

Did you know that kidnapping scams are apparently on the rise right now? To make it very clear, I am able to share this post and these tips because I was able to listen to the conversation after the fact. My office mate was able to record the phone conversation and after replaying the ...