Well summer vacation is almost here. My kids have one more day of school and then oh boy! One thing I find very handy is to have a meal plan for the week. I asked my sister Bethany what her go to are as well. So along with some cool summer meals, we have some basic ideas that you won’t need a recipe for. The first one we picked was Taco Salad! This one is so versatile too. Don’t want to use ground beef? Shredded chicken or turkey is a great substitute! Taco Salad Courtesy of https://life-in-the-lofthouse.com/ Ingredients 1 pound...

I have been busy pinning wonderful peacock items to my Pinterest board "strut like a peacock" and thought I would share them here. A few of them anyway. Love this peacock ring! It beautiful and simple, you know instantly what bird it represents.   Honestly, if you are a lover of peacocks, I really think you need these leggings. How fun would they be? Peacock Leggings   Ok, don't pair the shoes with the leggings in might be a bit too much! But so fun with jeans! Peacock shoes  And then of course here is our Peacock Pillow.   Thanks for...

Sir Winslow watches the whales Blue whales are magnificent ocean creatures. Sir Winslow sailed on a voyage that followed a pod of whales for days before they lost track of them. It gave him plenty of opportunities to study how they interacted with each other, even with the ships that were tracking them. The sketches that are in the journals from Sir Winslow's voyage are quite detailed. Here is the story the accompanies them. It was late summer and Sir Winslow was headed back to Windy Willows in England. He had been studying the lemmings on Baffin Island. Lemmings are...

Birthdays come along once a year. Children seem to enjoy this way more than we do! For us adults? Most would rather skip and just have a nice meal out. Well I would anyway. But what about kids? Kids NEED stuff. (say that with some whine in your voice!)  I thought I would compile some ideas about what gifts are great at what age. Some are fun ideas, some are a bit more practical. 1st, 2nd and 3rd  Birthdays Kids at this age are learning to walk, talk and interact with adults or older children. Keep the toys easy and...

Many of the animals at Sir Winslow’s Zoo were exotic, unfamiliar and extraordinary. However, some of them were a necessary means of running an estate in rural England. Chickens were part of this latter group of animals, but as cute as any of them. White fuzzy chickens were on bug control in the gardens of Windy Willows, Sir Winslow’s Estate. But with the arrival of warmer weather, they also carefully kept track of all the baby chickens that they hatched. Sir Winslow kept a nice flock of Frizzle chickens, both for eggs just to watch them strut around the yard....