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My kids have only 8 days of school left and they can't wait until school is done for the summer! If you're like us, the kids are happy and occupied until about mid to late July. Then, boredom hits. What to do?! After scouring the Internet and looking through activity books, I came up with this little bucket last summer: It's filled with … [Read more...]
I know it's taken me forever to get these pictures posted, but I'm finally ready to reveal my daughter's updated bedroom! Here was her room before: She didn't like the pink (I chose it when we moved her in to this room when she was 6 months old) and she thought it was too "baby-ish" and "princess-y" (her words, not mine). This was last year when … [Read more...]
I mentioned at the end of 2012, that I still needed to finish up the room re-do I started for my daughter last year.She's about to turn 8, and she's growing up way too fast. She likes peace signs, animals, her iPod Touch and everything that is bright and sparkly. She doesn't really play with toys anymore and she is an avid reader. She really is … [Read more...]
Since becoming a stay-at-home mom over 10 years ago Mondays never seemed so bad. They were a day like any other, really. An occassional grumble, perhaps, when school started but nothing too bad. Until now. Trying to wake a certain someone (who shall remain nameless), who is now in Intermediate school and has to wake up almost an hour earlier … [Read more...]
The kids made it back to school yesterday. And, although I was looking forward to having the house to myself and getting my own chores done the day was a little bittersweet. (The kids weren't really going to school in the dark...it just looks that way!) My oldest (on the left) started Intermediate school and it was a very emotional day for … [Read more...]
School starts tomorrow so for the past two days I've been working with the kids to get their rooms tidied up before the start of the new school year. Not "tidying up" so much as organizing and purging. Am I a fun mom or what?! Is it just my own kids or do others suffer from a minor hoarding addication as well? As we went through their drawers … [Read more...]
School starts in two and a half weeks and the kids are a little bored. What to do?At the beginning of the summer I scoured Pinterest and craft blogs for some summer boredom ideas and came up with this: Popsicle sticks with fun activities written on each one. When someone says, "I'm bored" they can pick a stick at random and do what it says. … [Read more...]
