Keeping Life Creative

I’ve always felt a need for a creative outlet, which is why I suppose I was first drawn to scrapbooking when pregnant with Ryan. I loved the idea of documenting my new baby’s life, all while layering brilliant patterned papers and ribbons, arranging flowers, buttons, and felt elements, and then painting, glueing, doodling, inking, embossing, sewing, stapling, or stamping. If  I wasn’t scrapbooking, I was usually devouring layout magazines, taking pictures, or journaling in preparation for my anticipated

As I’ve been thinking about enjoying my season more and taking advantage of the time I have with my kids, I’m realizing how seriously I take things and how rarely I smile or laugh these days. I take on too much and then I’m busy, stressed, impatient, and even angry mom. I {obviously} don’t want to be that kind of mom. I want my kids’ memories of their childhood to be of projects we

Last week in history we talked about the “earliest people*,” the “nomads.” We discussed foods they ate (plants, roots, berries, meat, fish, wild honey, etc.). After reading about it Ryan and I had this “great” idea to make a dinner of foods the nomads ate. He got REALLY into it and couldn’t wait to show/tell Jared all about the things he’d learned. First we decorated the dining room with some “cave art.” Then we talked about what we could