Kids are getting out of school, hallelujah! I love summer time. I love the lazy mornings. I love that I don’t have to make sack lunches every day…although I still have to make lunch. I love that we can go to the park for the morning or play a board game if we feel like […]

There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas A. Edison Before my husband and I had children, we talked about the kind of things we wanted to teach our children. High on our list was teaching our children to work. The interesting thing with work is that you assume people just know how to […]

  This is the first in a series of posts titled Lessons From Parenthood. Definitely not lessons in parenthood because I know I am not qualified to write about those. Parenthood teaches so many incredible lessons, many of them humbling and hopefully funny. We parents have to laugh at ourselves if we are going to survive. […]

  I wrote a post about the importance of inspiring your curiosity but once you’ve piqued your curiosity, it’s time to look it up. Really, we are all masters of finding information, right?  We look on our phones for everything from the closest movie theater to the best place to buy running shoes. But there […]

  Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. – Bryant H. McGill A self-learner, or someone who is autodidactic, takes it upon themselves to learn a skill or gain knowledge without formal instruction. Taking a class or getting instruction in an area may be part of your self-learning process but you are the one […]