I’ve been sharing some fun, crafty things over at BabyCenter lately — come check ’em out! Roller painting was a huge hit! We used fondant rollers from the craft store, and other fun supplies we found around the house. You could easily roller paint some butcher paper and use it for personalized wrapping paper. And […]
21 Ways to Spoil Mom This Mother’s Day — part 2
Continuing on with our ways to make Mom feel special this Mother’s Day…if you missed the first part, you can find it here (also be sure to enter to win $150 towards purchases at Minted! Good luck!) Homecooked: Make Mom breakfast in bed…or just a nice breakfast at the table after she gets up! -The Best […]
21 Ways to Spoil Mom This Mother’s Day
Is it wrong to confess that sometimes my favorite part of Mother’s Day is actually the day before? The day my husband rounds up the kids and all five of them head out together — usually to buy something special to make for dinner, some wine (my husband’s present), some flowers. And…for several hours I have the […]
Beautiful and Simple Embroidered Mother’s Day Cards
I do love handmade cards from the kids. I’ve tried to save most of them, because I know I won’t get homemade Mother’s Day cards forever. I just love ’em. We made embroidered cards similar to this for Valentine’s Day this year…so it only seemed sensible to change up the pictures a bit and make […]
Try this fun spring scavenger hunt with your kids
It’s spring, it’s spring! You can tell this at our house, because the snow has turned from freezing, sleet-hard, so-cold-it-squeaks snow to wet, sloppy, slushy spring snow. I can see how certain cultures have over 40 names for different kinds of snow. There really are a lot. But in between snows, the flowers are peeking […]
Delicious and Healthy Chocolate Cranberry Overnight Oats
We have busy mornings around here. Four kids, three school drop-offs (sometimes four, depending on the day). Three lunches, four breakfasts, two instruments to remember…and a partridge in a pear tree. So getting ready the night before is key to keeping our sanity in the morning. And that’s where overnight oats come in.
Creative Story Orbs Are a Fun Girl Scout Activity
I’m always looking for ways to meet our Girl Scout badge requirements, but make things fun and interesting for the girls. We meet right after school, and after a day of sitting in their desks working hard, the girls don’t want to meet for another hour to do the same thing for even longer. So […]
How to unwind and chill out when you’re about to lose your cool
If Malcolm Gladwell was right and we need 10,000 hours to get really good at something, I should be a freaking awesome mother by now. I’ve got more than 100,000 hours of parenting under my belt but I’ve gotta tell you — most days I pretty much still suck at it. Oh, sure, there are […]
Great Books for Budding Readers
I’m now working with the last of the four kids, teaching her to read. It’s one of my favorite phases, when that jumble of letters and spaces on a page suddenly come together, and everything clicks, and a whole new world opens up to them. And they get so proud of themselves as they learn to […]
5 Tips for Bird Watching With Kids
Our bird watching started as a winter habit. We were all cold and snowed in one winter morning, and we put birdseed in our bird feeder and crowded around the window to see what happened. And what happened was that while the entire world was holed up in their warm homes, the birds were out […]
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