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 [...]
Friday, June 8, 2007
My kids love birthday parties. When they get an invitation at school they can’t wait to tear it open and post it proudly on the fridge. I, however, am not such a fan. Seeing that little card on the fridge means yet another last minute trip to Target to buy yet another shrink-wrapped something-or-other. The [...]
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Why spend hundreds of dollars to rent an inflatable castle for your kid’s birthday when you can make a cardboard version for next to nothing? This great site has tons of how-to’s and inexpensive products to help you create some fantastic play places. I read about this site on another blog and had to pass it [...]
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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