TodaysMama

Looking for a great book? A book that will inspire you and/or your children to a life spent reading voraciously. Well, that can be tough – unless you happen to read Susan Thomsen’s blog, Chicken Spaghetti. Susan discusses “books for children and the rest of us too”.

The perfect list of songs for sitting on the porch on a warm summer evening.

My brother Sean and I were sitting at our round kitchen table eating lunch one sticky summer afternoon in the middle of my childhood, when my father opened the freezer to survey its contents and figure out what he’d make for supper that night. This freezer was always unreasonably disorganized and packed to the gills…It was like an unexploded mine, waiting to combust and assault you with frozen shrapnel the moment you opened its door.

One of the great delights of Motherhood is watching children create their own art. As distinct as their own thumbprints, the art that comes from their minds is expressed on untold numbers of pages. Stick figure after stick figure at first progresses to include hair, clothes, even shoulders! What a delight it is to observe their creations as that literally “fall out” of their minds through pencils, pens, crayons, brushes and markers as they produce something totally unique to themselves.

Thoughts and daily ramblings about life as a mother of five.

Whether you’ve trekked in Nepal, hitchhiked in South America, backpacked in Europe or traversed North America by road, children are likely to change your perspective on travel…When traveling with kids, a night on the floor is more likely to be a nightmare. But that doesn’t mean you’re limited to caravanning on the beach round the bend until the tikes become teens.

One of my very first scrapbooks ever was created when I was 11 years old and our family embarked on a trip to the US and UK. My mother (wise woman that she is) gave each of us kids a binder with plastic sheets and paper, and a pencil case with glue sticks, markers, scissors etc for the journey. As we were missing a few weeks of school, our ‘assignment’ (as decided by our mother) was to keep a journal/scrapbook of our trip.

These are a few of my all-time favorite jazz/smooth jazz songs. Enjoy!