A Scary, Scary Night…
Although we asked God, nightly, NOT to replenish the whole water table during our camp stay, sometimes he’d try–usually at night. This can be a good thing except when you …
Although we asked God, nightly, NOT to replenish the whole water table during our camp stay, sometimes he’d try–usually at night. This can be a good thing except when you …
My camping blog “Camping with Five Kids” will be featured on The Motherboard Facebook website on Friday, November 5, 2010. Please pass the word. You readers make the sun shine …
“Rain, rain, go away; come again some other day…” the children would chant when home, but at camp? We found it didn’t matter…too much. Rain usually blessed our trip, both …
Grammar. Literature. Essays. Writing devices. Story plots. I am in my own personal Heaven. English class, whether I am diagramming sentences with grade school students or reading complex text with …
We didn’t notice it at first. The longer camping trips brought it to our attention. At first it only ran around the trailer, like the children, scurrying under blankets, burrowing …
Have you ever encountered the grade school “brain”? Each class usually has one, and this time it is usually a boy. You know the type. The boy who doesn’t need …
As I stood before the snake, trembling like a baby about to take her first step, I couldn’t help but wonder why my family wasn’t coming to my aid. The …
As poor as my Spanish and French speaking abilities are, I forget how much more I know than those I am substitute teaching in middle school or high school, so …
As the children became more accustomed to hiking in nature,through forests and deserts, in mountains, along craggy coastlines, and over bogs, their chatter increased. Suddenly, the silence of nature was …