Better in Bulk - Family photographer with a large family
Daily thoughts on living with a large family; parenting, recipes, entertainment, photography tips, and family-friendly products.
I don’t know about your schools, but in our area, once May rolls around the concert/performance/ceremony schedule accelerates out of control. As busy as we’ve been with school performances of all sorts – concerts, parties, plays – plus, baptisms, birthdays and the like, we’ve been enjoying every minute of it! Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating by [...]
This post was sponsored by Language Stars of the Washington DC area. All opinions are my own. If you are in the DC metro area (like me!), then clear your calendar for this coming Thursday, May 2 at 5:00 PM. The Gaithersburg Language Stars center is celebrating their one-year anniversary and is inviting YOU to [...]
My kids are trained well…when it comes to collecting Box Tops for Education, at least. We purchase enough cereals and snacks for lunches (and yogurt and Hanes underwear and canned veggies…) to make a sizable contribution to the elementary school across the street. My kids know to clip Box Tops off of any boxes or [...]
Today has been an insanely busy day. For a person who spends the majority of the day on the computer, the fact that I am just sitting down to my computer for the first time today – at 8:30 PM – is quite a telling sign. Between picking one sick child up from school an [...]
Next Saturday, I’ll be waking up early (not my favorite thing to do on a Saturday morning) to drive my oldest daughter to a high school 20 minutes away. I’ll wait around nervously as she takes the ACT for the first time. It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I was taking the ACT [...]
Bump into me at the grocery store and I can guarantee that you will find a cart full of milk. Our family of seven goes through an average of 5-6 gallons of milk a week…and that’s with 5 of them out of the house from breakfast until 3 in the afternoon. We like to drink [...]
Progress reports for the first marking period were sent home a little over a week ago. The reports were full of A’s and B’s, O’s and S’s, and lots of +’s. I’m very proud of my kids and the great students that they are. I think the biggest school-related challenge that I have (now that [...]
The 2012-2013 school year is well underway, and with kids in 11th, 8th, 6th, 4th, and 2nd grades….after school hours around here are hectic. Lots of homework, lots of reading, and they still have chores to do. The kids get home everyday starting at 2:30 – three by bus and two by foot. And when [...]
I’ll admit – as much as I love candy (I really do. It’s bad) I’ve never really gotten the hype over Halloween. I’ve never been one to go all out with costumes (most years I just let my kids pick something from the stash of costumes I keep in the attic), although last year I [...]
I have a dirty little secret. I give you permission to laugh at me. I am guilty of grabbing cereal boxes out of my neighbor’s recycling bins to rip off the Box Tops 4 Education. Yes, I am rather obsessed with collecting Box Tops, and my kids share my obsession. We rip and cut out [...]
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