Literally overnight someone flipped the switch to turn off summer in the Washington, D.C. area as we’ve been enjoying fall-like temperatures for the past few days. It seems fitting though with the kids settled in school and everyone adjusting to new routines. Including me. For the past seven years I’ve been a room parent in…
Review: How the Samsung T1 SSD Has Become My Holy Grail of Portable Storage Solutions
One of my biggest challenges is disk space. I constantly feel like I live on the edge being just a camera upload away from filling up my hard drive yet again. So what do you do when you’ve archived nonessential files to the cloud and maxed out the drive in your laptop but still need…
Remembering 9/11
Why We Need to Provide Equal Access to Education for Kids Around the World and Why You Need to Know About the United Nations #GlobalGoals
School. Sometimes waking up, packing lunches, and making sure that homework is completed can seem like it’s a grind for everyone in the family but what would life be like if your kids couldn’t go to school? What if there weren’t schools where you lived or the cost to attend was astronomical compared to your…
Why I Let My Kids Read Captain Underpants Books and Their Thoughts on Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot #PilkeyPower
This is a sponsored post created in partnership with Scholastic It’s no secret that my two kids love Captain Underpants and while the books are filled with potty humor and misspellings that make some adults cringe, I have no problem letting them read them and I had no problem welcoming Captain Underpants and the Sensational…
How to Secure Belongings at a New Workplace or for a New School Year
The start of a new school year always reminds me of my very first job as a new first grade teacher. My classroom was just downstairs from the school’s new entrance and had a wall of windows that looked out on the school’s courtyard, letting in lots of natural light throughout the day. It was…
Greek Mythology Comes Alive During Family Trip to Olympos Thanks to Percy Jackson
Imagine a place where flames come up out of the ground because of a legendary battle between Pegusus and the mythical Chimera who had the head of a lion, body of a goat, and snake’s tail with the power to scatter flames from its mouth. Over the summer we visited Olympos and neighboring Cirali, magical…
PBS Learning Media Twitter Party with the Monterey Bay Aquarium TONIGHT!
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of our favorite places to visit when travel to California to see my parents and it’s a place that I’ve been going to since I was a child. My kids are captivated by the playful otters, wait patiently for graceful stingrays to glide by to pet their silky fins, and marvel at…
GoPro Wearing 5 Year Old Captures Her First Day of Kindergarten
Do you remember your first day of kindergarten? I don’t. My memories of my first day of elementary school exist from a single photo in album of my childhood. In that photo I’m wearing a gingham jumper while holding my Holly Hobbie lunchbox with an expression that conveyed seriousness, anxiousness, and sheer terror all at…
Netflix’s Project Mc² Empowers Girls by Breaking STEAM Stereotypes
I’m often asked where Emily’s interest in STEM came from and I honestly can’t pinpoint just one thing because I believe it developed through repeated exposure to many different things over time. Knowing incredible women in the field of science provided amazing role models while engaging hands-on games and activities both at home and…
