Tips For Surviving Car Travel with Kids
As the veteran of various long road trips with kids, starting when my 4 1/2 year-old daughter was 18 months old (we also have a 2 1/2 year-old), I’ve managed to come up with a few tips, tricks and activities to help keep my…
Activity Cube for Little Kids
We worked on a kiddo craft today – an activity cube to use for an active indoor game – perfect for a day like today when it was completely pouring outside (yay summer). This was a fun, easy craft to work on with the…
Crafting Remote Control Instructions
My mom is babysitting tonight, and since it’s movie night for the kids I’ve got to come up with some instructions for the tv/blu ray/stereo. Its not as easy as it might seem – I think I might have too many pages of instruction…
Father’s Day Surprise
I helped Vivi with a Father’s Day project today, but this post will just have to serve as a placeholder until after Sunday, so the surprise isn’t spoiled!
Roasted Chicken with Cauliflower and Chickpeas
It was so chilly and fall-like tonight that I wanted to make something for dinner using the oven – preferably with roasted vegetables. I have a great recipe I got from Everyday Food magazine: Roasted Chicken with Cauliflower and Chickpeas.I hadn’t made it in…
Paper Plate Art
Viv was the arts and crafts instructor for today – she got out all the materials she wanted us to use and helped set up our art station at the dining table. We had paper plates, paint daubers, watercolors, glitter glue, Elmer’s glue and…
Beef Stew
Have I posted something about beef stew before? I can’t remember right now and I’m feeling altogether too lazy to check. Something about the day today just said ‘beef stew’ – maybe it was the pouring rain and 50 degree weather? (Hello Junuary). There’s…
Glazing the Clay
We got to go back into the studio today to put an underglaze on our pieces. It was fun, except always a bit stressful when Dom’s on the loose too – but he and big sister had great fun glazing their pieces as well….
License Plate Game Map
I left the license plate game sheet I made at home so I decided to whip up a new one – my idea to draw a US map got slightly derailed by the slight problem with scale I had (note: gap between Alabama and…
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