Every Sunday, the pastor at our church does a very brave thing: he talks to the children for a few minutes and somehow relays the message he will be preaching about in a way that they can understand. One Sunday, he put up his hand to show a way to pray: each finger representing a different person to pray for…. View Post

We went to Hadley’s conference recently and her teacher told us that one of her favorite things to do is work at centers. She writes in her journal, looks up words in the dictionary, writes recipes, and does research. And she makes list of things I can write about. It’s quite a list with lots of variety, don’t you think?… View Post

{Celebrating} Harper turning 5 (don’t be jealous of my mad cake decorating skills), Hadley turning 7 and having the most fabulous fall weather in all the land.  Since we’ve moved to the DC area I think, this has to be the best fall ever and then the mid-atlantic region up and puts on another show again.  Darn you DC for… View Post

My teaching partner, Shannon, and I recently taught a class where we encouraged participants to make a to-do list for that day.  “The more mundane the task, the better,” I said. They obliged and then we asked them to write about doing one of these items on their list as though they are fully engaged in that activity. Shannon said… View Post