We live about 15 miles from Manassas National Battlefield Park and have been there several times over the past 17 years. My most recent visit was in March. I took a few pictures to share with you. (I should mention that Felisa asked me why I was taking so many pictures when I had already…
April 12th is Grilled Cheese Day. Mmm…. grilled cheese! We scored a White House tour over Spring Break (click here for more details about our tour). Our tour started at 11 so by the time we finished, everyone was hungry. The kids checked their phones and found GCDC Grilled Cheese Bar a few blocks away…
As I was driving Bella to practice the other day, the subject of movies came up. Specifically Winnie the Pooh movies. She said that there is a new one and I told her I had already seen it and didn’t like it at all. On my flight to Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago,…
Carrots are full of Vitamin A and beta carotene which are good for your eye health. This is a fact. The superpowers of carrots though have become exaggerated over time. They help maintain healthy eyes but cannot resolve vision problems. If you are near-sighted, no amount of carrots will change that. Why then do we…
“Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” -Naya Rivera
This is the story that caught my attention… Every 20 minutes, from dawn to dark, the babies need food. That means catching hundreds of fruit flies a day, freezing them, crushing them with mortar and pestle, and mixing the mush with special nectar supplemented with vitamins, enzymes, and oils in precise combination. The mixture spoils…
Just announced – Week in the Life 2018 will be May 7-13, 2018. Did you participate in Day in the Life last Thursday? Was it easier than you thought it might be? Ready to try tackling a whole week? Week in the Life is more of a commitment (and honestly I usually barely make it…
Today’s post is inspired by a recent episode of Mike Rowe’s podcast, The Way I Heard It. If for some reason, you don’t know who Mike Rowe is, check his somewhat irreverant bio here. The Way I Heard It is a series of short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span. Episode…
Welcome back for the final installment of Day in the Life, March 2018. I always find it a bit ironic that I often spend more time recording the memories than I did making them in the first place. Oh the trials of a scrapbooker… Or should I say Head Family Memory Preservation Specialist? That makes…
Did you see Part 1 of my day in the life story? We left off as I was rushing out the door, late for work. Join me now for more of Thursday, March 18… Through Mid-Afternoon 0834 Enter my classroom. As I suspected, my uneaten breakfast burrito from yesterday is sitting right where I left it. …
I did a great job of capturing my day. Maybe too good of a job because so far I’ve typed up only about a third of my notes. I decided to break my day up into sections to make a shorter, easier read. Here we go – My life on Thursday, March 14, 2018: Before…
There are many things about the world today that, in my opinion, are not great. Big problems and smaller problems. Some things will take a lot of people working for a long time to see change. What am I doing in the meantime? What small, daily actions can I take to work towards a more…