Mom on the edge.
Hey all, check out my article about the Summer Jar in the August 2011 issue of FamilyFun magazine (it’s the part about “daycations”). I can’t find it online; I think it’s only in the print edition. Update: I did find it online. Here it is. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D3010′; addthis_title = ‘Summer+Jar+in+FamilyFun’; addthis_pub = ”;
Wow, that was fast. All of a sudden, Ramona is 1. She has graduated from rolling to full-on crawling, and just this VERY second, just crawled up one step from the back porch into the kitchen. In the past few weeks she is adopting more kid mannerisms and is much less babylike. She’s very excited [...]
Does the middle of July say “snowpants” to anyone but Eli? addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D2035′; addthis_title = ‘Appropriate+Attire’; addthis_pub = ”;
Last week the Summer Jar told us to try a new food (the Jar told us this the day after we’d gone to the farmers’ market and eaten sour cherries and Italian broccoli greens for the first time, but apparently the Jar thinks we still weren’t being adventurous enough). So we went to the store [...]
Every summer day brings out more animal in the children. Seriously, I know dogs who are more sophisticated than this. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D1999′; addthis_title = ‘Nibblers’; addthis_pub = ”;
Last week the Summer Jar told us to make cards and mail them. I had some premade blank cards from the days when I fancied myself a cardmaker, so we drew on those. The most fun part was deciding who to send our cards to (excuse me: to whom we should send our cards). Henry [...]
Last week the Summer Jar told us to do an experiment called What Sinks? What Floats? The Let’s Explore blog gave us the idea. The kids loved it because it involved a large bowl of water (I’m tempted to put “explore a large bowl of water” in the Summer Jar but I don’t want to [...]
Hey everyone…I’ve got an article on Better Way Moms about the Summer Jar. Go read! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D1920′; addthis_title = ‘Summer+Jar+on+Better+Way+Moms%21′; addthis_pub = ”;
Thursday the summer jar told us to go to the Portland Museum of Art. I’d put it in the jar because I haven’t been in a few years, and I wanted the kids to see all that art right there in our own town, I thought it might be inspiring, and I thought it might [...]
I’m sure you’re all desperate to know what’s been happening with our summer jar since we started it a little over a week ago. I will say that it’s odd how anxious I get each morning when we pull that day’s activity. But so far all has been great. Day 1 we picked “Visit an [...]
