by Hollye Dexter | Jul 12, 2010 | evan, motherhood
So I was playing the game Boggle with my four-year-old Evan. You shake up these letter cubes, then try to find how many words you can make out of them in one minute. What a great learning opportunity for him, I thought. Have a good time playing, learn some new...
by Hollye Dexter | Jun 2, 2010 | evan, motherhood, parenting
Last month in my blog “Mother Guilt”, I worried that my youngest son Evan might not remember all the good times we’ve had; playing Candyland on the floor, reading books together and building castles out of blocks, but instead might only have memories of me yelling at...
by Hollye Dexter | May 19, 2010 | evan, family, life lessons, motherhood, parenting, persistence, preschool games
Today I played a marathon game of Chutes and Ladders with my four-year-old son and let me tell you, that game is not for the faint of heart. It gives “Risk – the Game of World Domination” a run for its money.The object of the game is to move the 100 spaces to the...
by Hollye Dexter | Mar 25, 2010 | evan, mid-life, Middle Age, motherhood, parenting, writing
If you had asked me ten years ago what I’d be doing when I was 46, I would have said that my two children would be grown, I would be back in college getting that elusive degree, traveling all the places I used to dream about, and finally writing that book I’d always...