Luckily, throughout the formative years of my boys’ education and development, I have been able to provide a great deal of enrichment outside of school. In fact, if you have ever read the tag line for my blog, enrichment is mentioned. “THE APPLES IN MY ORCHARD…….. a reflective blog about enriching youth through education, opportunity,…
Words need more substance than just inclusion in verbiage. There needs to be meaning AND intent behind them. While in grad school for my Environmental Education degree, we were asked in one of the theory courses whether education (about the environment) is enough (for community members). Is knowing about environmental problems and issues like the…
Today is Poetry Friday. I was not sure I would write today as we are headed into a busy weekend at our house. Tomorrow is graduation, following COVID guidelines and much delayed, our youngest will officially complete high school and enter the next chapter of his life. There will be a small, family-only, celebration at…
Ever since I started making fabric masks for PPE, I am obsessed with fabric! I cannot seem to stay away from the fabric store! And, even if I go there to get something other than fabric – like thread, elastic, interfacing, or another craft item, I come out with fabric! Today was a case in…
After dinner, last night, my 25-year-old son and I decided to take a hike today. Ordinarily, he would not be home and available to do such a thing, but in times of COVID, one must improvise. I felt the hike would do us both some good and suggested the Prairie’s Edge Loop Trail at the…
It may or may not be true, but I suspect I am partial to one side of my front garden bed. Weeding usually starts on one side, my photographs are taken from one side, and I seem to appreciate one side more than the other. Today, whilst I weeded, I happened to look up when…
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Lately, I’m all about National Parks! On Monday I started a returning blog series exploring the National Parks to which we have visited. The first park to be explored was Haleakala National Park on Maui. Secondly, I am working on a National Parks quilt that is turning out to be huge! I was just sewing…