Perhaps it’s my own fault. Maybe decorating for Halloween five weeks early naturally creates holiday over-anticipation/impatience in my kids. Whatever the reason, my kids are constantly dragging their costumes out of their closets to ask me if it’s time to trick or treat. Yesterday, after answering that quetion for the 493rd time, I decided I needed a way for the kids to [...]
Monday, August 27, 2007
Sorry for the long delay in posting. There’s nothing like cramming a birthday party, back to school, and a baptism all into one week to make you fall behind in your posts. Last week I received a great little email from Arian regarding my home laminator. For years I thought a home laminator was out of my [...]
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Keeping track of your kids activities and school schedules can be an overwhelming challenge. My solution? Take the pressure off yourself by helping your kids do it on their own. In our house my kids use their fridge planners to keep track of all their weekly to-dos. When I posted this idea early on in [...]
Monday, July 30, 2007
When it comes organizing my kitchen, it’s not about perfect order…although I’m guessing you guys know that by now. Rather, my intent is to make my time in the kitchen more efficient and make my kids more independent when they use it. One way I do this is through my super-easy fridge organizing. When I created [...]
Sunday, July 22, 2007
When it comes to summer hairstyles for my kids…I’m all about simplicity. For my son, that means a buzz cut and a lot of baseball hats. For my girls, it means a summer full of pixie flips. I’m sure there’s a more official name for these inside-out pony tails, but when my daughter wore these [...]
Monday, July 16, 2007
Nothing can push your mothering creativity like the long days of summer. When I hear my son start quoting air freshener commercials I know it’s time to shut off the TV and force a little good-ol-fashioned fort making. I wasn’t up for destroying the living room, so we used a corner of a bedroom instead. [...]
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 soggy [...]
Sunday, June 17, 2007
One of the big drawbacks of a house without a designated toy room is that I’m forced to let my kids keep toys in their bedrooms. Unfortunately, because our entire house is essentially one level, the cars, dolls, trains, and other random plastic objects inevitably make their way from the bedrooms to the common rooms of the house. For [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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