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Adorable DIY Valentine’s Day Gifts
The following Valentine’s Day gifts are ones you can make with the kids to hand out to family members (most everyone loves home-made gifts), neighbors, teachers, friends and your significant other. I love involving my daughter when making holiday gifts and might have to try out a couple of these fun ideas. Have a wonderful Valentine’s Day! A Succulent Valentine: I absolutely love succulents! And they make wonderful gifts! This is a fun idea from A Night Owl Blog that is really easy to make. Though according to Feng Shui principles – it is best to avoid cacti in the house or garden. Plus little fingers might get hurt. For…
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DIY :: Fun Decor Ideas for Children’s Rooms
Decorating your children’s room can be so much fun! Especially if they join in and contribute with artwork that you can frame and include in their room. While pregnant, I must have looked at a ton of décor magazines (life before Pinterest) looking for ideas for her nursery. Thank goodness I came across the store and website Room & Board because they were offering some more modern ideas – such as polka dots (you can purchase the decals on Amazon), simple furniture and knitted dolls. I used their catalogue for ideas and went about sourcing a cheaper way to incorporate some of the into her room. You don’t have to break the bank decorating your…
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Things to Do When the Kids are Sick
Image courtesy of Flickr About a week before Christmas, my daughter and I caught that cold that is going around and were in bed for about two days. Of course, she recovered in no time and I was feeling bad for over a week. I sure wish I had her little immune system! We literally spent the two days in bed recovering watching movies. Thank goodness for Netflix and their huge array of movie options that is for sure! If you find yourself or your family sick in bed – here are is a list of movie options that Netflix put together for families to enjoy. Plus they provided us with some…
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Getting Organized Step by Step
One of the resolutions I made for this year is to get more organized and to get my house decluttered. Our place is not that big and piles of something always make their appearance each day. Whether they be school papers and homework from my daughter, bills and mail on the kitchen countertop, or my work papers on the kitchen table, I feel it is a never ending battle. Plus throw in the equation that I am not one of those Born Organizers as the Flylady tagged as women who just know how to get and keep it all organized. You probably have some of those friends – you…
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Recipes :: Fabulous Birthday Party Treats
It seems like birthdays come in bunches. Over the summer we had a ton of birthday parties to attend and over the next two weeks we have no less than five (including my own, which will forever be my 28th – even when I am 80). There must be something in the water to get all these summer and winter babies! We joke in our neighborhood because all the kids are either July or August babies! There are so many fun ways to decorate your child’s birthday party and you can find a ton of ideas on Pinterest! I highly recommend you check Pinterest out after finding out what theme they want. …
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A Time of Reflection and Planning for the New Year
It seems like this year has gone by in a blur. There were so many wonderful things that we celebrated together as a family – like my daughter starting first grade, learning how to read, finishing her first YMCA triathlon for kids and has the medal hanging in her room that she likes to show anyone who comes to visit, to getting a new family dog. We are attempting to teach him that he is a dog and not a human as he so thinks. When I look back at the photo’s I took on my iPhone over the past year, I realize we really did have a great time…
