Handcrafted fun and fast ways to love your kids to bitty-bits!
I am thrilled to have started leading the preschool class at our church once a month! I get to craft and teach with Bean, and see first-hand what he’s like with his friends (a little more rambunctious than I would have thought but he IS a boy 😉 ). Our church is going through the […]
This summer was a whirlwind of activities and joyous moments! I wanted to share some of the highlights. We had so much fun walking, working in the garden, picking fruit out at Green Bluff, playing in the pool, and exploring the great outdoors! What did you do this summer?
Although this post is a year old, it’s never too late to share more fun birthday ideas! For Bean’s second birthday, we chose a theme in line with his all-time favorite book: The Little Blue Truck. For invites, I used Facebook and uploaded a fun photo of Bean: I made the cake myself! Not as […]
The prompt: simple. The experiment: worthwhile. The outcome: pretty incredible. I was looking for something to keep the kids busy that wouldn’t be too messy. I thought it was about time to finally try the Pinterest craft of painting in a bag, thereby creating a mess-free work of art. The idea is to put a […]
As I went grocery shopping yet again this week, I prayed the whole way there that they would have fixed the buckles on the dual-ride shopping carts so I could actually have a cart in which to put my 2-year-old (Bean) and my 1-year-old (Bird). Yes, perhaps I could’ve just waited to go shopping till […]
Fair warning: this is a long one… One of the first things I Decided when I found out I was pregnant and started my list of “Things We’re Going to Do When We Have Kids” was to limit our TV consumption. I was raised “in front of the television,” as was my husband (and frankly most […]
We finally did it! We finally dyed some beans! I’ve been pinning ideas for dyed beans for at least a year now and we finally got around to it. Can’t believe I thought it’d be too hard. So easy! It helps that Bean himself is also old enough now that I know he won’t just […]
We know how to project. “Come here, come here, come here NOW!” We understand the importance of diction. “Suck.” “Excuse me? Oh, TRuck!” We know how to cry on cue. “And then he said, ‘I-wuv-oo’ for the first time!” “Awww!” We know how to take personal criticism. “Mommy, no sit on blanket.” We know how […]
Happy Memorial Day! Lest we forget why we had a three-day weekend, I want to start by saying thank you to all those who have served, are serving, but especially on this Memorial Day, a thank you to those who gave their lives for this country so that I might be free to raise my […]
I know the title seems like a stretch, but seriously, these are The World’s Best Cookie. Period. My family calls them Gorp Cookies but I’ve also heard them called Buffalo Chip Cookies and Ranger Cookies. First, mix up the ingredients. This is a really easy recipe where you just dump it into the mixer as […]