How to Make 2017 a Great Year!

New Year’s Dream Chart

How to Make 2017 a Great Year! Another year is ending. Are you ready for the new year? Since this is the final post for 2016, I thought it would be fitting to post a recap with some of LadyBug Blog’s 2016 highlights and to share my personal dream chart for 2017. Look for a […]

Sharing Your World with a Smart Phone

What I Learned By Doing the #NaturePhotoChallenge

If you’re on Facebook or Instagram you may have seen the “Nature Photo Challenge” pictures that are being posted recently. Here’s how it works – you receive an invitation to take and post a nature photo for 7 days and tag the person who nominated you and also select a new person to join the […]

Lessons Learned from Grandparents (In Honor of Grandparents Day)

You may have noticed a holiday on your calendar – the Sunday after Labor Day – called Grandparents Day. Do you know why it was started? Do you do anything to honor your grandparents on this day? Surprisingly, Grandparents Day was not started by floral or greeting card companies. The idea for it started in […]

Are You Ready to Raise the Anchor and Chart the Course? – Festival of Sail

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William G. T. Shedd Turning points and crossroads. How have these affected your life? It is said that life is a journey so one would expect the road to have turning points and crossroads. Some of these are naturally occurring, such […]

“When Did People Start to See in Color?”

“When did people start to see in color?” Initially, the question threw me off guard. First, a little back story. I was in the middle of teaching a small group of fourth graders a California Gold Rush lesson when a boy named Kenny asked this. My first instinct was that Kenny was trying to be […]