For many, Spring Break doesn’t start for another week but for some crazy reason my children’s school decided we’d do it early. What does this mean? For me, it means I wasn’t prepared for the “Mom, I’m bored, she hit me, he won’t quit looking at me” and all those other sayings that go with four kids being in the same house with absolutely nothing to do.
Currently I’m listening to them dish out ice cream:
“Oh gross I bet he put boogers in it. Sissy did he put boogers in my ice cream.”
“No, he didn’t put…What? Ewww, that’s gross, BabyGirl. He’d …read more

One of the nicest things you can do with the kids as Spring arrives is to head to the zoo. Today, we did just that. It was the perfect way to spend St. Patrick’s Day weekend, even if none of the animals was sporting a bit of the green in honor of the holiday. (Although the peacocks were showing plenty of other colors!)
Our little zoo is just the right size for a trip with young children and has a really nice picnic and play area attached. I don’t know if the kids had more fun visiting the animals or climbing …read more