School Years

It's that time of year again! It's cold outside, the kids are going stir crazy, and you need something to do to switch up the quality indoor family time. Here are some tried and true tips, tricks, and places to...

Of course your child is a wonderful artist. She constantly gifts you with pieces deemed "too precious to toss". Until one day you look around and your home is inundated by “art” on everything from post-it notes to fringed notebook paper. What's a mama to do?

It’s that time again, back to school. Even though I am a morning person, I personally have never had a good breakfast routine. I wake up and want to get straight into work. I don’t want to waste my...

As the school year 2020 ramps up, many of us are finding it looks a little different than previous years. Whether you are homeschooling (new or veteran), doing fulltime or hybrid remote learning, or are back in-person, we've compiled a...

With back-to-school season approaching, I was reminded of my most embarrassing preschool drop off moment to date… I backed into a fellow preschool mom’s minivan after dropping off my daughter at school one February morning. I was absolutely mortified getting...

The summer before kindergarten... ...you will savor the moments—cherishing their littleness while marveling at how they got so big. The summer before kinder, you will wonder how this little person who depends on you for everything will be able to make...

I'm always looking forward to my kids being home from school.  I sometimes long for the preschool days when we had carefree days to sit outside with the neighbors or take slow deliberate trips to the library and open...

While growing up, I was surrounded by STEM influences. My mother was a middle school math teacher, my father a lawyer by day and an aspiring paleontologist by weekend encouraged me and my younger brothers to be master builders,...

A few months ago my youngest child and I walked to the kindergarten doors, on the first day of school, for the last time. This is one of many days I turn her over to dozens of kids and...

Hey Omaha mama! Are you pandemic-induced homeschooling? Or is the kids’ school out for spring break? Or maybe you are homeschooling family and just need your own version of a spring break with your kids! Worry no more mama–our...