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Handprint Flag Shirts

July 4, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

Our neighborhood has an annual 4th of July bike parade — all the kids decorate their bikes and ride down the street following a fire engine…I love it. This year we decided to make matching shirts, because — fortunately — none of my kids are quite old enough to be embarrassed by that yet. Not that […]

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Ice Cream in a Bag

July 2, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

I feel like this should have some sort of pithy name or something. But I got nuthin’ so I’m calling it like it is. It’s ice cream. That you make in a ziploc bag. It’s a fun activity to do when you have a bunch of kids together because everyone can do their own and […]

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Overnight Road Tripping

June 28, 2012 By Laura 3 Comments

Our anniversary is July 3 (yes, it’s coming up! No plans yet. 13 years, thank you for asking. No, I don’t know how he’s put up with me this long, either.) Because it falls on one of the biggest travel weekends in the summer, I once spent my anniversary night here getting kicked in the […]

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5 Days of No-Cereal Breakfasts: Day 5

June 23, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

Welllllll — today’s breakfast was sort of a mini-fail. I kept to one of my criteria and we ate something that was not cereal. But when I sat down and did the math, it actually came out to be slightly more expensive than cereal (especially cereal that’s on sale). It does have more protein and […]

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5 Days of No-Cereal Breakfasts: Day 4

June 22, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

Today’s breakfast is most cost-effective at the end of summer when the six zucchini plants you put in because you couldn’t quite believe some of them wouldn’t die all bear zucchini…and more zucchini…and more zucchini. Or if you simply have me as a neighbor and must deal with me ditching zucchini on your doorstep when […]

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5 Days of No-Cereal Breakfasts: Day 3

June 21, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

Today’s exciting, unique, and original no-cereal breakfast that is guaranteed to rock your world was… pancakes. Yep. That’s it. Just pancakes. But we don’t normally have them during the week and they fit our cheap, no-cereal criteria and so here we are with our pancakes. I’m discovering that this breakfast challenge is requiring me to […]

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Egg Breakfast Recipes

June 20, 2012 By Laura 1 Comment

Egg Breakfast Recipes

When the kids are on vacation, we try to slow down around here. They no longer have to scarf down a box of cereal, hurry up, get ready, find their shoes, and get out of the house. We can relax. We can spend a little time making breakfast. We can make it special. Modern Mrs. […]

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Baked Oatmeal Recipe

June 18, 2012 By Laura 5 Comments

Baked Oatmeal Recipe

Can we talk breakfast for a minute? It’s my favorite. I could honestly, actually, live on nothing but breakfast foods all the long day every day forever. French toast. Pancakes. Cinnamon rolls. Eggs. All those lovely, glorious carbs and fatty things like bacon and…just…yum. I promise you, of all the food rules out there, the […]

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Rules for Summer Vacation

June 13, 2012 By Laura 1 Comment

The following list is not all-inclusive and will most certainly be added to as summer continues:1.) If you are climbing the tree in the backyard and I can look you in the eye from the second floor window, you are too high.2.) Never again fill your cup from the ice dispenser with so much ice […]

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Reading for Peanuts — Best Books for Babies

June 13, 2012 By Laura 1 Comment

So talking about summer reading got me thinking about the best books we’ve read around here, which inspired me to make a list. Today — our favorite baby books. 1.) Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann — about a mischievous gorilla (aren’t they all?) who causes trouble when the zookeeper locks up for the night […]

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Welcome! I'm Laura -- a mom of four kids aged thirteen and under. I run occasionally and love really bad puns.

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