DIY Life

My son will be starting preschool in September. We're both very excited about this. Me, because I feel confident I have chosen the perfect preschool for Owen to continue to grow into an amazing young man. He's jumping out of his skin because he had so much fun when we went to visit a few weeks ago. Can you believe he's still talking about the songs we sang, and the different rocks in the science center?

There are many ways to go about choosing a preschool for your child. You could focus on accreditation, academics, atmosphere, and philosophy, all of which are important to some extent. As a former teacher and a conscientious mom, I'm going to tell you how I did it.

It wasn't so long ago that well-meaning parents, scholars, and knee jerk social engineers were pointing at the dawning of the computer age and claiming that computers were going to usher in increased illiteracy. These people had visions of video screens full of pictures which were activated by keystrokes, and they foretold the rapid demise of the written word. In bold defiance of that warped assertion, I kindly write this blog post.

These days, any person with a computer available to them has many virtual libraries right at their finger tips. These painstakingly assembled databases are growing daily and are providing hungry readers with every type of literature you could imagine. From pulp romance to legal text books and everything in between, it's now more readily available to the average reader than ever before. Let me provide you a few good examples:

Each week, we'll show you how you can take a trendy decorating idea, garner inspiration from it and recreate a reasonable facsimile in your own home, easily and cheaply.

I know, here I go again, with my love / hate relationship with Pottery Barn. They have such fun ideas, and I do find many of their products reasonably priced.

But 39.00 for a set of letter cards?

Framing letters is a very attractive idea, and as you can see from the Pottery Barn photo of the letters spelling out "Boo," it will lend itself to infinite seasonal displays.

If you have a computer and printer, though, you can do this yourself and save 39.00 (plus shipping!).