Pre-schooling at Home

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it here in any of my posts, but Mark and I are planning on homeschooling our girls {and other kids we hope to have one day!}. We have several reasons for wanting to keep our kids home that I might explore in another post one day but for now I just wanted to share what we're doing for Reaghan for Preschool.

Reaghan's Princess Party

Reaghan Eileen turned 4 yesterday! When I was planning Mark's 30th birthday party earlier this year I was at Party City with the girls and decided to take Reaghan down the birthday party aisle to see what kind of decorations she'd like for her party and she picked out the princess theme. She's been talking about her princess birthday all summer long so we wanted to make it special.

We enjoy having family parties for birthdays and decorating with a theme but since this was a princess party I thought it would be fun for Reag to have a couple extra princesses there too. We invited 2 of her good friends from church and asked them along with her cousin to dress up in their favorite princess dresses. Reaghan decided she wanted to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast so we bought her a dress up dress as an early birthday present and she wore it to the party. Another friend from church found out we were having a princess party for her birthday and let us borrow several princess decorations that she had saved from her daughters princess party several years ago! It was perfect! I would have never bought the big princess pictures but they were a huge hit. The only decorations I bought were some dollar tree balloons, a table cloth and princess party game for $5. Walmart had a great selection of Disney Princess Party items so we were able to get plates and napkins and a few party favors at budget friendly prices!

Comfort Zones & Book Clubs

So... I did a thing this past weekend that was completely out of my comfort zone.

I invited all of the ladies on my street to come to a book club at my house! *gasp*