Celebrating the Birth of a Nation… with a bit of paint and lots of fun!

Joy to the World: Advent Activities for Your Family by Kathleen M. Basi [Liguori Publications (July 1, 2010)] is a book of advent readings, activities, and rituals. Published by Liguori Publications, a Catholic publishing company comprised of a “community of religious priests, brothers, lay people, and contemplative nuns,” Joy to the World: Advent Activities…
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 As homeschooling parents, we work endlessly to ensure our children master the basics of reading, mathematics, and grammar. We allow caterpillars to live in jars on our counter tops and build pyramids…
One hot, humid August afternoon last summer, we joined friends for a last minute get-together at our local AMF Lane. While there I learned about the AMF Kids Bowl Free program, an incredible program that allows all registered children ages 15 and under to bowl 2 FREE! games each day throughout the…
The boys are convinced that it was their prayers for snow that brought the six inches of fluffy white flakes to Northern Virginia Sunday evening and into Monday. That’s fine, after all, we have been telling them that the Lord not only listens to all of our prayers, but He also answers them all: sometimes…
The Saturday before Easter, the boys built a butterfly house at a local Home Depot Kids Workshop. Today, we took advantage of the beautiful Spring weather and invited a neighbor to join us in painting the houses to attract our colorful, winged friends. Butterflies prefer bright reds, oranges, yellows, and purples, so those are…
It turned out well, don’t you think… and it was by far the easiest of our patriotic t-shirts to make. To make the Eagle-tee, you’ll need a t-shirt, washed in mild detergent and dried without fabric softener; fabric paint in white, brown, yellow, black, and glitter fabric paint in red, white and blue – we…