watch wonder bloom

I am SO excited to be teaming up with Nia of Floral and Fawna to bring families a unique summer camp-at-home experience this summer! On July 10th, we'll launch Camp Floral and Fawna which will include: The Camp Floral and Fawna Activity Guide: This downloadable camp includes daily schedules, activity guides for each day, supply lists, book suggestions, printables and more! (You can see the sneak peek here!) When you purchase the camp, you'll also find a code to join a Remind

WOOT!!! It is soooo close to being a new year and a new decade! What are you excited about this year? Do you set intentions and/or resolutions for the New Year? This year, I'm excited to dig into my personal yoga practice a bit more and to keep getting outside with my kiddo while helping other families do the same! Tinkergarten just launched an awesome challenge called #OutdoorsAll4 and I let that take over this month's calendar! If you are looking for a meaningful family res

I post a lot about emergent literacy - HG's due date was smack in the middle of my AMAZING emergent literacy class at UNCG and this class has served me so much as an educator, mom and educator of educators. When we look at literacy emerging and take an already ready approach, the way we watch kiddos in our care develop shifts. I notice smaller moments - the slight differences in sounds HG makes that are her new words, the confusions students have when words are too similar in

I began teaching yoga unofficially in 2011 when I lived at Highlands Biological Station for a semester. A group of us there loved climbing, running, etc. But, there was no climbing gym around and we needed ways to crosstrain. I'd been doing yoga for a while and would teach a class out on our pavilion. I loved it! And, I learned how much I had left to learn. As someone who is not always the best at taking me-time or resting, I found yoga to be essential to my well-being once I

Happy fall! I am SO thrilled to post this calendar because a) it is actually early! b) I made changes that I'm excited about (read on to find out more!), and c) these take a while to do especially when our little one doesn't nap, so I'm excited to hit "publish"! So, let's dig in! What are the topics of A Month in Moments this month? A Taste of Fall: Fall is a season rich in family traditions and a season of harvest - so it's no surprise there are fall flavors we love! Smell a

As we start the school year and as my family moves to our new home in Fort Lee, VA, I've appreciated that I've had time to slow down and notice all that I learned in my time in Sanford, NC. I moved here to teach and am moving to VA as a military family. As a new teacher, then as a grad student, then a beginning teacher support staff person, and then as a parent, I have seen first hand the importance of a sense of a wonder. I have a BS in Environmental Geology and spent a seme

This is may be the oddest back to school season my family has ever had. We are about to move from Sanford, NC to Fort Lee, VA, and for the first time my life I will not be a student or teacher or teacher support staff in public education. We'll see how long that lasts... I may end up subbing and looking for teaching jobs by December, or I may continue to focus on spending time with our little one, leading with Tinkergarten, and exploring becoming a family childcare provider.

Welp...It's been a minute since I posted... Since the April "A Month in Moments" post, I've finished two major papers, a few big projects (Adobe Captivate is...time consuming), graduated with my MEd, started training as a #newleader with #tinkergarten (WOOTTTT!), celebrated my first Mothers' Day and my baby's first birthday, got orders to re-station in Fort Lee, VA, and celebrated Will's second Fathers' Day. Enough of my busy-ness litany - we all have seasons where personal p