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Hooray for Park Day!

 

The Calandro Clan annual Park Day was a huge success! As planned, we travel to twelve parks and spend thirty minutes in each one for a total of six hours of play. We have done this for years and look forward to it all year long. We love experiencing our parks all in one [...]

You Can Learn From This Living Legacy

Judi is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. She is amazing!

Way back in March, I had the honor to witness the fabulous Judi Bauerlein receive a lifetime achievement honor from the American Montessori Society called the Living Legacy Award. Judi, now a retired teacher, was one of those teachers straight from legend: classrooms [...]

Mind Your Manners, Man Your Minors

Just imagine keeping this under control for TWO HOURS

Last week, I took my three boys to dinner and they were expected to behave. We ate at a fancy restaurant and I was there for work. My boys are eleven, seven, and four and the dinner lasted about two hours.  There were only two other [...]

Find! That! Smell!

Ewww! What's that smell?!?

I have to play this game way too often in my house and in my car. It happened again this morning. I got in my van (Yes, I drive a white minivan -Jealous?) and was immediately hit with round one of the game: Ugh! What stinks?!? Actually this game used to [...]