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How to Make Coconut Milk
We have recently learned how to make coconut milk and what a perfect time to share what we have learned with you! Living in Costa Rica has been such a treasure for so many reasons, but we especially love the abundance of fruits and vegetables year round. You can make coconut milk anywhere in the world you have fresh coconuts! Ours cost around the equivalent of 50 cents in USD in the markets. Other times we get them for free when they fall from a tree here in Costa Rica! From one single coconut, you can make: Water from the Coconut Coconut Milk Flakes Coconut bowl (if you’re ambitious and…
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Preschool Life Cycle of the Turtle Discovery Bin
Need a great activity to study preschool life cycle with your students? Use this activity as a great inspiration! You can easily change up this hands on learning tray for other animals to introduce your preschoolers to the life cycles of different animals. One of the best ways to let preschoolers learn is to touch, see, and manipulate with their hands. Ever since I became a preschool teacher at a bilingual school in Costa Rica, I have immersed myself further into the Reggio Emilia inspired teaching approach. I came up with this idea with a few simple manipulatives to focus on preschool life cycles: Free printable puzzle like this one…
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5 Simple Ways to Use Less Plastic
We all know that plastic is filling up our landfills, polluting our oceans and can take up to 1000 years to decompose. There are a few simple changes you can start TODAY in your family to help reduce your consumption of plastic use! Beeswax Wraps This is a new way that I just recently discovered! Ditch the plastic Saran Wrap and trade out for these beeswax food wraps – in our home we use them when we can’t find a Tupperware lid (frequent occurrence), to wrap up sandwiches, and more. Find these here on Amazon! Reusable Water Bottle Instead of purchasing a new plastic bottle of water when you’re out…
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Traveling with Kids – How to Keep your Sanity
Before moving to Costa Rica in March 2021 with our 3 toddlers, we really thought traveling with kids was just something those cool people on Instagram did but we would never accomplish. We may have gained a few grey hairs moving our small family to Costa Rica from the United States, but now that we are here it was 100 percent worth it! Disclosure: We are Amazon affiliate partners. There are links to products we use and love in this article! If you click and purchase any of these items we recommend, Amazon compensates us at no extra cost to you. Pura vida! Read below for our best tips on…
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An unexpected side effect of birthing multiples – a surgery story
I’ll never forget the moment we found out we were unexpectedly expecting twins. After many miscarriages and infertility, we finally were pregnant again! The midwife saw me to measure my uterus, and noted it was abnormally “large” for how far along I was. She recommended an ultrasound. Fast forward a few days and I go to see the only place in town that provides ultrasounds – the doctor asks me if twins run in my family – and my face turns pale white (mind you, I’m already a super ginger so I must have been white as a piece of copy paper). Gender Ultrasound 4 months gestation We were pregnant…
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Hello beautiful friends!
I am absolutely thrilled to launch the Joyful Johnsons blog. Today is the day! This has been on my heart for several months – and now that I am stuck in bed after surgery (fun post about that later) I finally had the time to get it done. What I hope to share with you here is to create a space of valuable perspective: To make you laugh. To make you feel connected. To help you learn and grow with us. I am so grateful to share this joy filled space with you! Make sure to subscribe to our list below so you don’t miss all the fun I have…
