Fabulous Army Life

We started the day at the Harker Heights Medical Center ~ LOVE this place!! It's like they collected the very best of all medical professionals and put them all in this one building.  They are simply fabulous!  In this photo, my boys bond with another DSi-loving child in the waiting room.  I finished up blood work for my annual exam and Trey completed his Boy Scout physical and is ready to go to First-Year Camp next week! Trey and I dropped Joshua off at his friend's house for a birthday party then made a quick stop at Hobby Lobby for yellow ribbon, stickers, and this Plaster-of-Paris imposter.  We hope it will be able to hold our tree branches in place for our "Wishing Tree" crafts for battalion kids tomorrow night.  Trey and I both adore Hobby Lobby and miraculously bought only what we came to buy!  (You're welcome, Honey!) After we finished at Hobby Lobby, Trey and returned to the birthday party.  I really enjoyed visiting with thre...

A wonderful story about the invisible string that connects loved ones. Whenever one thinks about another member of the family, the string gives a tug and you feel it. Our battalion used this book at a recent Family Night event.  We wanted to have some meaningful activities for them to complete during the meeting and came up with a goody bag of things to do.  I'll post about that later, and use this post to talk about this adorable book that I now love.  At the meeting, we had a large room that we divided in half (half for adults, half for kids).  All the kids were together in one corner of the room with volunteers there to help.  One of these (fabulous!) volunteers read this book aloud to them to start the activities.  It's a sweet story; from the  Amazon.com description:  Specifically written to address children's fear of being apart from the ones they love, The Invisible String delivers a particularly compelling message in today's ...

Spring has sprung in central Texas!  We're seeing bluebonnets sprout up all over our area and are enjoying the warmer weather ... biking, playing outside, walking with the puppies, and enjoying some fun nature crafts.  I wanted to share this fun activity we enjoy when the weather is nice outside.  We've taken this to the neighborhood park, on an outdoor hike, and to trips to the lake. Materials Needed: thick paper plates (we use Chinet) white school glue (we use Elmer's) We tell the kids they are making a "Nature Plate" to show off all of the wonderful parts of nature.  The only rules?  You have to gather and place one item at a time and you can only fill one plate.  Easy, right? We start by setting out their plates and filling it with white school glue.  Then the kids take off in to the great outdoors to collect the items they want to place on their Nature Plate. Because they can only choose one item at a time, they tend to use a littl...