Needing to Find Some Motivation
Do you ever just feel lazy and unmotivated? Man do I have a case of the lazies lately. It’s not that I can’t think of anything to do, it’s that I can’t bring myself to do anything. I’ve been crazy busy with the end…
Color Matching Game for Kids
I saw an idea for a color matching game on Pinterest (searching through many many unattributed pins on that site led me to find this post which seems original although not the one I saw). I made a set for each child and brought…
Felt Boards for Kids
Over the next few days I’m going to post some of the projects I did during my ‘hiatus’ from the site. Way back in August I started on a project to make felt boards for the kids, mainly for our trip to Germany to…
Yellowstone Photo Book
I’m working on a photo book of our trip to Montana and Yellowstone National Park. I’m using Snapfish, which I’ve used quite a bit before and liked the results. I’m curating the photos – trying to decide the length of the book and what…
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…
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…
Kids Travel Journals
I took little lined books from the dollar store and turned them into travel journals for the kids. The first pages are filled with route pictures that are divided up into mileage segments, which will hopefully be helpful for them to visualize “are we…
DVD Organizing
My OCD tendencies were in full force tonight as I worked on a system to organize the kids’ DVDs for the car. No picture tonight because really, how boring would that be? The main things I needed were a way to identify which DVDs or CDs…
Crayola Online Fun
Sometime in the past year when we bought Crayola products they included an access code to use the Crayola Story Studio for six months. I decided to activate the account tonight to play around with it and see what I could do (my code…
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