It doesn’t take a “Pinterest Perfect Parent” to make food fun for your kids. Here’s some simple ways I get the kids involved with the process or make the food more fun to eat! Make a teddy bear pancake simply with yogurt, raisins, and strawberry slices! Cut a shape in their sandwich–whatever they want! We […]
Tag: outside
Bring the Beach Home
I recently had the pleasure of going to Myrtle Beach…without the kids! 🙂 It was a wonderful time of rejuvenation with my grandmother, mother, and sister-in-law. Absolutely amazing. It was hard being there without the kids, though, in some ways, like wishing I could go shell hunting with them in the sand. Well, problem solved: […]
Painting Outside for Twice the Fun
Why “twice the fun” you ask? Because it’s fun to free paint, but even better when it’s easy to clean up afterward! And it’s definitely cleaner when you just pull the hose out afterward and spray them down! I let them use whatever they want: hands, fingers, brushes, rolling pins, cars… They were so creative! […]
Why Does Food Taste Better Outside?
You can’t deny it: food tastes better outside. Why? I don’t know! Is it the fresh air bringing more of the scent to your nose? Does the cold taste colder in the heat of the sun? Does the hot cocoa taste hotter in the cold of winter? Just look at these happy faces! There is […]
Have You Been Outside Today?
Have you been outside today? Going outside is proven to do the following: Produce smiling children Produce dirty, smiling children Produce dirty, smiling children who want to live outside forever and ever If you haven’t been outside yet today, please stop reading right now and GET OUTSIDE! I don’t care if it’s raining! That just means […]