The Joys of Large Outdoor Paint Projects

I don’t know a kid alive who doesn’t like a large outdoor painting project (we’ll ignore Tom Sawyer for the moment). For at least the first 10 minutes anyway. My 3 year old was even having a blast painting the rabbit hutch the other day, there is something so freeing about not worrying where your [...]

Hooking kids on fishing a bunch at a time

Wow, my kids would love this! And it reminds me that I do want to take them fishing this summer sometime, we just need to scope out a trout pond nearby…or visit family and go to an wonderful little trout pond in the town where our friends live. Mike and I used to go fishing [...]

Teaching 100 Kids To Swim

A very interesting article from TheStar.com. We are going into swimming lessons this summer as well, Kade has already been in them, but it will be the first unparented class  for Ivy. I was actually shocked that less than half the country’s kids have taken lessons though, I didn’t think I was in the minority [...]