National Day of Service and Remembrance Sept. 11th

The 10th Anniversary of September 11th is coming up and there is a nationwide movement to remember this tragedy with a day of service. The National Park Service has plenty of opportunities to participate in this day of service, no matter where you live in the US. We have visited many, many National Parks and…

Dream Dinners Act 2, 3, and 4

We have worked our way through a few more of the Dream Dinner meals from the July menu – mostly when I have no brilliant ideas for dinner and I pull one of those out thinking – “Oh, this will be easy, I don’t have to think about dinner.” Which happens to be how it…

Parents Rejoice Everywhere – School is in Session

Today was the first day of school at the San Carlos Charter Learning Center, which now has all three of my boys as middle schoolers – two tweens and a teen. Hard to believe, but we are finished with the K-4 wing of the school. This our 9th year at Charter and we love it here!…

Summer Garden Spoils – Part 2

This post is a followup to the Summer Gardens at the Their Best. On our all school clean up day, part of the clean up efforts focused on the CLC Garden and harvesting what was left from the summer. It turned out to be  a fabulous “CLC Farmer’s Market.” I even got to harvest some…