A couple weeks ago, I met up with a friend at the El Dorado Nature Center.  We walked, we talked, we did the normal set of things that two mothers with young children do when they get together.  Like stop every →MORE...

Last week, Charlotte saw the spray fountain at the park and I swear her jaw hit the ground.  We go to the same park at least twice a week and the spray fountain has been on every day for the past →MORE...

*** Don’t forget to enter my children’s book giveaway for the Stella and Sam collection, an awesome, award-winning picture book series by Marie-Louise Gay. In our household, summertime means warm lazy weekend mornings and happy afternoons grilling with friends.  It means →MORE...

...for making pictures like this, where I wonder “Is that a frog?  A newt?  A lizard?  Are they bouncing on a salamander?“ possible.

*** Don’t forget to enter this week’s children’s book giveaway!  Today is the last day to enter! So after we went to Centennial Farm, which, if we’re being honest, is really just a glorified petting zoo, I got this hare-brained idea →MORE...