Heart Day

Melted Crayons molded into hearts

10-15 mins in a 250* ovencooled, cute and ready to color!Breakfast love

A favorite candy of ours to make..

Peanut butter mixed with confectioner's sugar

rolled in chocolate and topped with m&m's
Peanut Butter Cookies rolled in pink sugar

and sealed with kissesHave a lovely day!xoxo

Final Research Night

Our local art museum hired a research team to accompany us on 6 of our family outings over the course of a year. The goal was to gain knowledge on how families use and the value they place on interactive spaces in art museums.

Photographing Maya is our wonderful researcher,
who also quickly became our friend There were plenty of crafty supplies for us to dive into!

This is Maya's

"City of Skyscrapers"and my little man set to work on a bracelet for his MamaWe were asked to create, as a family, a piece to share with the group which represented our year in the study and we were given a cardboard box..a favorite building material of Maya's!

(as we were leaving, she asked ever so politely to take a box home with her :DWe put our heads together :o)

and reminisced over some of our favorite moments

like when we shared our time in nature and the beauty it held for us

and the cityscape's they made on one of our trips to the museum..
Megan~12 yrsMaya~7 yrsKobe~8 yrs Kyle~5 yrs how we took time to notice the amazing architecture in our city

and the puppet show represented here.. from this past summer I so enjoy watching my children express themselves creatively!

What better way to gain insight into their world.

As a thank-you for our participation,

the kids each received an art journal with supplies

and another year free membership to the art museum!

We expect the data gathered will encourage more art museums around the world to incorporate interactive spaces.

Because children, as mine showed this year, have an innate affinity for the tactile and they learn by doing!

We're Snowed In..Still!

I cannot remember the last time we've had this much accumulated snowfall..4 inches! A rather big deal for us southerners, we're not exactly prepared for this type of weather and so for the past 4 days, the simple act of leaving our driveway has been impeded..

But not our sense of FUN

because being snowed in means being in SNOW! It means snowy desserts with thumbs up approvalIt means snow gathering and snow sculpting

snow dancing and snow throwing

lots of snow throwing :o) However Maya preferred to eat the snow

rather than throw it

A much needed snow,

it brought color and smiles to my winter blah

It's not the cold, it's not the snow..it's the lingering gray
So I'll keep warm

and be patientbecause the sun hasn't forgotten me