Do you know what this thing is? If you guessed toilet bolt cap, you are correct. And it’s like baby crack. A one-year-old will do just about anything to get one of these seriously annoying things into her mouth. They might as well just make them look like this or this or this or this All […]
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tip of the day — memory game for kids
If you are anything like me, you have about 3000 wallet-size school pictures that you never got around to mailing out to your great aunt who lives 1000 miles away from you. I put mine to good use and turned them into a memory game. The older kids like to play it because they love […]
Be careful what you wish for…
I was wondering when this day would come… Right on schedule. It’s official. “I WISH I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN!!!” And just 4 days shy of her 6th birthday. Does that mean I can cancel her party now? I really didn’t want to have one anyway. Looking forward to the next couple chapters, including: 1. […]
tip of the day — one way to make waiting in the doctor’s office a little less sucky
The next time you have to go to the doctor’s office with one (or more) of your kids, make sure you bring crayons, markers or pens. My kids love to draw on the white paper on the table while they are inevitable waiting for the nurse or doctor to come in. Snag a magazine in […]
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? Or the next day. Or the next…
Number 6 scribbled all over my computer monitor with pen, and then with sharpie. It looks like a Jackson Pollock painting. I licked my finger and tried to wipe it off that way, but that did nothing. So here I sit, typing this through the graffiti on my screen. Just like I have every day. For the past […]
Tonight’s tip — scrapbook/memory book idea for your kids
A friend of mine from high school posted this on facebook. I thought it was pretty cute, and I thought you might too… Every year on the first day of school, she takes a picture of the kids and then asks them what they want to be when they grow up. Here is what her […]