I came across a very interesting statistic the other day while researching the greatest concerns of preschool parents. While parents over all were concerned with issues like separation anxiety, transitions from home to school, their child’s abilities to get along and make friends, as well as academic expectations (in other words could they keep up),…
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Collecting Memories Over Things Thru Family Travel
During my recent family vacations to Europe, as we hoped in and out of plans, trains and automobiles, I took some time to reflect on what travel has meant to me and my family. I remember a summer trip with my parents and 8 siblings from our home in Georgia to the nation’s capital, Washington,…
Your Children Will Take You Places You Never Dreamed You’d Go
My father used to say this to us years ago and weight of his words revisited me this past week as I toured northern Italy with my children and grandchildren. For those of you who tuned in last week, I shared my first impressions of arriving in Venice, the floating city. I was awestruck. I…
Making Christmas Count – Part 3
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 It didn’t work out for my husband and I to spend Christmas this year with our kids and their families. But one of the great things about being retired is that we can come and go as we please (and as our budget allows). So we spent a…
Making Christmas Count – Part 1
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 👩🏾👨🏾🦱👩🏽🦱🧒🏿👧🏽👩🏽🧔🏾🧑🏾👨🏾I come from a family of nine kids. Yes, that’s right. There were nine of us. Six girls and three boys. 🤵🏾👩🏽💼🙏🏾 I don’t know how my parents did it but with faith in God, hard work and lots of prayer we all made it out of…
Family Stories and Traditions
When I think of family stories and traditions one of my fondest memories is that of my mother-in-love and her afghans. She made some of the most beautiful blankets you’ve ever seen. She made one for both of our children when they were first born. She even made one for me and my husband early…
Shoutout Saturday-Back Home
It’s Shoutout Saturday! Let me tell you about this very special gem from my collection by @gloriajeanpinkney entitled BACK HOME. _ 👨👩👦👨👩👧👦👴👵 Living far away from extended family can make it tough to build and maintain bonds that help young children build their identity. _ 🚙👨👩👧👦 This book reminds me of the many road trips my husband…
Want to help your child adjust to a recent move?
🎉👨👩👧👧🎊Host or attend several gatherings with family and friends to announce the move and celebrate this new chapter in your lives. — 🏖🏕🎡 Take the time to visit special places as a family that hold great memories and draw you closer to each other. — ✈️🗺🏫 Visit your new location if possible before you move so that…
Throwback Thursday-Family Matters
📸 Have I got a Throwback Thursday for you all today! _ 🚚 Moving can be really hard on young kids because it can mean long periods of separation from extended family. _ 👨👩👧👦 My husband and I come from large families with lots of brothers and sisters and even more cousins, aunts and uncles. We made every…
We ALL Need Great Teachers
“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” Romans 10:14 NIV This one goes out to all of my brothers and sisters who have taken on…
Shoutout Saturday-Don’t Say A Word, Mama
📣 It’s Shoutout Saturday and I have to tell you about another wonderful book entitled Don’t Say A Word, Mamá (No Digas Nada, Mamá) by Joe Hayes. – 🌶🌽🍅Hayes teams up with illustrator Esau Valencia to tell the story of two sisters who love each other and their mother so much that they overflow their mother’s…