December 21, 2018

Central West End Christmas – St. Louis, MO – December 2018

My family is currently based in St. Louis – we are a family of 4 – me, Brandi is the mom, and I’m 43. My husband, who we’ll refer to as P, is 51. We have a 15-year-old we’ll refer to as J, and a 12-year-old who we’ll call E.

On a recent weekend, E was at a boy scout campout, so P, J, and I decided to go wandering around in our own city, acting like tourists. We went to the Central West End in St. Louis.

This Mexican restaurant (El Burro Loco) was nicely decorated.

Another nearby business was providing free s’mores for visitors. We could walk up and make our own!

There were street entertainers.

The World Chess Hall of Fame is located in this area. It offers lots of photo ops!

There were lots of other beautiful street decorations, and lots of cute little shops with beautiful items for sale.

It was a lot colder than we had expected, so we didn’t stay as long as we had wanted to, but overall, it was a wonderful day. Exploring your own city is fun, and we’re going to try to do it more often!

Filed Under: Christmas, St. Louis, Travel

October 24-25 at Johnson’s Shut-Ins

Penguin Park – Kansas City, MO – December 24, 2018

This blog is a mishmash of things I feel like posting.

I’m a special education teacher in Missouri, working with students with severe to profound challenges and needs. My students don’t study a traditional academic curriculum, and we are focused on functional skills and communication. You won’t find math worksheets or science experiments on this blog, but I’ll post things that I use that work well for my students. If you can use them, that’s great!

I have recently had some life changes that have made traveling and exploring possible, finally. I post about those excursions from time to time, and hope to post more about that in the future as I get to go more places.

I also make digital designs – I started designing digital scrapbooking graphics way back in 2007, selling them off and on, but mostly giving things away. I have some items for sale in my Creative Fabrica shop, but there are also a few freebies here, and also in the Commons at DigitalScrapbook.com. I had an unfortunate hard-drive crash with my cloud storage failing as well (everything was corrupted due to the crash), so all of my older designs and freebies are gone.

I know that many teachers need a side-hustle, but the sites I visit are so full of advertising and pay-walls that I have pretty much stopped using resources that I didn’t make myself. When I make something I think is worth sharing – I’ll share it here, without making you sign up for anything or pay for things you can’t afford.