Getting Your Camp Started

We made the decision several years ago that we would spend our summers together as a family, and not send our kids to day camps. Mainly it was because we didn’t want to have to adhere to a set schedule of having to get out of the house by a certain time each morning, after [...]

Many people are under the misguided idea that garages are meant as storage homes for your cars…..  ha ha ha!  While it’s true that in the winter we manage to clear out enough space to squeeze in my hubby’s SUV, once summer rolls around, that vehicle makes its overnight home in the driveway so that [...]

Summertime fun?  We will have that covered with a calendar chock-full of activities, crafts, and field trips.  But it is also important to regularly review what was covered during the school year too- so as to avoid the dreaded “summer slide”.  To that end, I develop a weekly homework checklist and I devise a reward [...]

I have spent the last two weeks gathering together my ideas and sorting through them to decide which ones will “make the cut” for our summer camp at home program. Throughout the year when I come across a great craft idea or a recipe that I think would be fun to make with the kids, [...]