Recently we returned from a fun New Year’s trip to visit family in New York. To my kids delight, over the course of the vacation, Grandma’s house received loads and loads of snow. We haven’t seen much snow in Missouri this winter, so my kids couldn’t have been happier. Snow pants didn’t make it onto my [...]
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sometimes it seems like my kids spend half the summer in their bathing suits. Between weekends at the lake, trips to the pool, and afternoons jumping through sprinklers in the backyard, my kids enjoy more than their fair share of water fun. Of course, the downside to all this aquatic activity is the piles of [...]
Saturday, October 28, 2006
It’s that time of year again. Time to keep track of dozens of cold weather accessories. It seems like it takes forever to get to the car because you have to factor in all the mitten search time. Rather than continue to waste time hunting, I opted for this easy solution. We don’t have a mud [...]
Monday, July 17, 2006
It’s inevitable. You want your kids to be independent and get themselves dressed, but all too often they wander out of their room with some of their clothes on backwards. A simple magic marker trick helps my kids with this common problem. I teach my kids to look for the dot rather than just the tag. [...]
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Thanks Erika, for you question about the details of the dresser system I listed on a previous post http://meckmom.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_meckmom_archive.html>. Here are few of the specifics. I have 5 plastic drawers in each kid’s stack. I’ll list them from the top down. · Shoes & Accessories This one holds all those miscellaneous items like belts, slippers, hats & cover-ups. [...]
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
We all love the easy on/off shoes. However, no matter how much velcro and stretch they put into them, the hardest part is usually figuring out which is which. I found this bright idea in Family Fun magazine. A mom contributor recommended putting arrows inside to help your kids figure it out for themselves. I found a [...]
Saturday, March 4, 2006
This is not a novel idea, just a new twist on an old one. I really wanted my kids to be able to get themselves dressed in the morning, but found the current systems were not designed to be kid-friendly, they were designed to look nice in perfect magazine closets. I created this system as [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
I’m not a big fan of dressers. They take up a lot of room in our tiny bedrooms and they’re tough for my little kids to use. The drawers are always heavy and most of them are out reach for my little ones. I bought 5 of these plastic drawers for each of my kids [...]
Saturday, January 10, 2009
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