Last month, we did our annual family excursion to the Jersey Shore, spending a week collecting seashells on the beach, bicycling on the boardwalk, splashing down waterslides, riding every possible amusement ride, and eating lots of pizza and cotton candy.
Linda and Phoebe have been trying to grow strawberries in the backyard for the past couple years now, but every time one of the underripe green berries gets big enough to notice, it disappears.
Once a month, our local Home Depot holds a workshop where kids are invited to come and work on developing important life skills, such as wacking things repeatedly with a hammer, avoiding injury while performing said wacking, and in the process building a small project.
