Kids
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Recipes :: 5 Easy Summer Treats
Nothing says summer quite like eating fresh watermelon at the pool or beach. As kids, my younger brother and I would sit outside our front porch and go through a whole watermelon between the two of us! I can’t seem to get enough of it this summer and recently learned that it has moved up to the front line in recent research studies on high-lycopene foods. You have probably heard about Lycopene as it is a carotenoid phytonutrient important for cardiovascular health. This week I found some healthy fruit treats that you can feel good about serving to your kids and not have to worry about grumpy sugar crashes. You can even get the kids involved to…
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Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Paint App Review & Giveaway
We are excited to review Disney’s Digital new app featuring Mickey Mouse! Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Paint app is loads of fun for any creative kid. The first page opens up and we can choose which section of the house we want to go to including the Kitchen, the Garden, the Living Room. We started with the kitchen and Mickey tells us to first color in his image before we start. There are some really fun items to choose from including painting with a sponge, using glitter and you even get to use the magic wand! My daughter had a lot of fun coloring in Mickey with polka dots, glitter…
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Recipes :: Easy Homemade Popsicles
For my daughter’s end of the year kindergarten carnival party I signed up to bring popsicles. Having my masters in nutrition has helped me to decipher through ingredient lists to see what our family should and shouldn’t eat. And to be honest, I am always a bit disgusted at the snacks – even the ones who claim to be “healthy” snacks that companies put out on the shelves for our kids. I grabbed some popsicles that I use to eat as a kid and looked at the ingredient list on my way up to the checkout. I didn’t like that High Fructose Corn Syrup was listed in the label as…
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Instagram of the Week :: Enjoying the Moments
One of this weeks Momism of the Day really hit home with me. “We do not remember days; we remember moments,” by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950); who was a Poet and a Novelist. Life is so much about enjoying the moments that make up your life. It is so true isn’t it? That when we think back to our own childhood, we remember moments or snippets of time and hopefully most of them are good memories. Lately, I have been thinking about what types of moments do I want my daughter to remember once she is grown. Though I can’t control what she does look back on with fondness when she’s…
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Dandelion Moms Project Kindness :: July
We were inspired to create the dandelion moms project kindness after watching a video from one of my favorite children’s authors Amy Krouse Rosenthal and her Beckoning of Lovely project. We can always use more loveliness and kindness sent out into the world so we created the dandelion moms project kindness where we feature grass-roots organizations and people who are doing great things and could use some help. One month the dandelion moms community helped to create a much-needed library in the Dominican Republic and sent over 150 books that will be used the local townspeople in their new library. Another month dandelion moms sent in old shoes and gently used…
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Parenting :: Safe from the Summer Slide
You have definitely heard these two warm weather catch phrases: summer reading and summer slide. Nationwide, in both educational and literacy circles, parents, teachers, librarians and elected officials discuss ways in which to keep children actively learning throughout the summer months, especially as it relates to reading and math. There is definitely something to be said for the idea of keeping the brain active and not wanting kids to “forget” all of the skills they learned during their 180 days spent in school (as a stay-at-home mom for many years, I can relate…insert “mommy brain”). The amazing part to me…study after study reveals the same thing. And the…
