SCRAPPING THE LESSON PLANS
If you’ve been here longer than five minutes, you know I’m a planner, right? An organizer of sorts. Planning a new school year has become such an anticipated occasion each summer. I…
BOOKS OF 2014 + A NEW BOOK LIST FOR 2015
2014 was a pretty good “fun” reading year for me. I make a quick list of all the books I can remember reading…I feel like I forgot a few. I…
READER FAVORITES FROM 2014
I love you guys. I just really do. You’ve stuck with me this year when the sticking wasn’t very good. You’ve listened to me hash out things and organize things…
THOUGHTS ON 2015
I sat with coffee and a blank planner yesterday…waiting for the inspiration to hit me. Waiting for the motivation of writing down goals to just start flowing through my pen…
FINGERS CROSSED
So much of my tradition-loving, memory-making, homebody-ness has had to adapt this holiday. We are making memories, but they’re just different. We’re all kind of floating, figuring out things as…
WINTER ART IDEAS
There’s so many fun art projects to do for Christmas that sometimes after all the hoopla, we feel a little uninspired…like, what do we do now?? With this move, my…
DECEMBER FAVORITES
December rings true every time; the sights, the smells, the feelings. It’s been hard for me to get into the spirit, but I’m riding on the kids’ merriment and their…
Taking Stock: December Edition
Once in a while when things get hectic, the only practical things to do is to write a list. But really, I think this is good practice regardless of the…
CREATING MOMENTOES: 100 WAYS TO PRESERVE MEMORIES
Tis the season for memories, right!? Over these last few weeks I’ve been making a mega list of ways to preserve memories: photos, travel and school and baby mementoes, ways…
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR KIDS TO MAKE: SERVING PLATES
This week’s last gift for your kids to make is so simple, you might even have everything you need in your house right this minute. Make some serving plates. All…
CHRISTMAS GIFTS KIDS CAN MAKE: BATH FIZZIES
Happy Thursday, friends! This week has been absolutely crazy…maybe because we’ve been packing in so many projects?? I’m off for more house hunting today, so my week seems shorter than…
CHRISTMAS GIFTS KIDS CAN MAKE: PERSONALIZED KITCHEN TOWELS WITH KID ART
Today’s gift your kids can make is an oldie but a goodie. My kids have made these several times and they are so quick and easy…and they love to give them. Triple…
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR KIDS TO MAKE: SERVING SPOONS
There’s times, in the middle of a project with my kids, that I wonder what the heck I’m doing this for and why I didn’t just have them watch an…
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR KIDS TO MAKE: MAP COASTERS
Okay, let’s make some map coasters! But wait… Happy December! I am a firm believer that Thanksgiving and December 1st need to have an extra week between the two, but…
HOUSE WISH LIST
Spending a four day weekend house shopping is not for the faint of heart. It was a long and sometimes overwhelming weekend, but we’re one step closer to getting settled…
MOVING: ALL THE FEELINGS
A photo posted by Alicia Hutchinson (@aliciaahutchinson) on Nov 11, 2014 at 6:04am PST We’re here! Well, we’re here in the Midwest. I wouldn’t say we’ve “arrived” yet, living like…
GIFTS FOR YOUNG NATURE LOVERS
This Christmas will be a little different than most years, having just moved. But some things can’t be jaded–and yes, there will still be Christmas lists. I find myself a…
JUST A FEW CARING PEOPLE
There’s nothing quite like pulling out of your driveway for the last time–all your belongings packed tight on a truck, leaving behind what’s been your life for years. It’s a…
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