making a difference! • bettering communities
by Cecily Kellog on May 18th, 2012 | No Comments »
One of my favorite things about being a mom is how parenting has forced me to pull back and look at the world in the long view. Parenting has forced me to think of the world at large and not just my little corner of it, and as a result, I’ve found myself longing to do good more than I did when I was young and single.
Did you know as recently as the 1970s, the average American belonged to …
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mom • parenting • family fun • family fun-traditions
by Jill Greenlaw on October 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Life Lessons—The other day I looked out my back window and saw this beautiful sight. Yes, it is a dump truck unloading dirt.
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I couldn’t wait to tell my kids when they got home from school that we had received 25 loads of precious dirt. I decided to text
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on February 25th, 2010 | 9 Comments »
…Helping your kids learn and love STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math) often feels like a chore. And for some, it can seem overwhelming, especially if you didn’t do so well in those subjects when you were younger.
But today, the educational landscape has changed. STEM is taught in
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