Building bilingual babies (toddlers) through intentional play!
I feel awful at keeping up with my blog. I haven't blogged once about our August play theme Tastes of Summer. We just finished week three of our favorite tastes of summer and there is so much to share. I will try to post once a day this weekend in order to catch up on… Continue reading So behind!
This week has been one for the memory making, at times not so good of memories and other ones that will not be forgotten in decades. Monday afternoon 4:30 pm I remember feeling disappointed because the girls took late naps and we hadn't been able to play school all day. I was planning on leaving… Continue reading 3 Gun Shots and Still Alive…
These past two weeks I have had a big responsibility in preparing our little ones for our drastic world change to missionary life in a country they have never been, yet are duel citizens of. Our little family will be experiencing a huge cultural change in exactly one month from today (hoping Colombia doesn't extend… Continue reading Small Window into Colombia
We are entering week #3 of Mama's Bilingual Play-School, I have been "playing school" with my girls since I can remember. As always, my definition of play-school is simply, intentional play. This month is about patriotism of both USA and Colombia since we are a bicultural family. Here are some snapshots of our intentional play… Continue reading Patriotism: Cultures of America
So, I have been sooooo focused on building a play-school curriculum and designing materials that I some how allowed my blog to slip through the cracks. I absolutely love creating materials and have enjoyed this journey of creating a bilingual play-school curriculum that I pray will go far beyond my own home. During this pandemic… Continue reading Play-School: July Play
To be honest I started this post and rewrote it about three times before I finally have a complete thought about the direction I want to go with this topic of sibling life. I have two girls who are 17 months apart, exactly the same distance as my older sister and I. I love my… Continue reading Siblinghood: Love or War
How was your Mother's Day? I hope you were loved on or you loved on your own Mama at some point, even if it was a zoom call. Juan gave me a journal for my parenting prayers this year along with a scrapbook he made. So sweet, right??!!!! I love this parenting prayer journal concept!… Continue reading Parenting Prayers
Sometimes there are so many topics and areas of childrearing I want to talk about, particularly now during this pandemic when we are together 24/7. Juan and I have been taking a James Dobson course called Essentials of Discipline with a few couples from our mission agency. It has been so encouraging and motivating. Although,… Continue reading So Many Thoughts…
How is Sunday Church at home going with your children? Are you able to make it all the way through an entire church hour with your little ones without a bazillion interruptions? For those with toddler aged kiddos, I don't think I appreciated nursery and nursery workers more then I have these last few months.… Continue reading Home Church
Have you ever had one of those eye opening moments that you look at your children with their developing personalities and temperaments and see a COMPLETE reflection of YOU. Definitely sometimes a scary realization. I had one of those moments tonight. I was sitting at the dinner table feeding Megan and I just had a… Continue reading Inner Reflections
Mama's Bilingual Play-School 