#1 Here’s a plethora of printable dinner table questions to spark some fun mealtime conversations with your kiddos! #2 Here’s a whole lot of reasons to love the lowly dandelion and why dandelions make the world more magical for children. Here’s a bunch of recipes using the leaves and the flowers for everything from cookies…
Month: May 2010
You’re a Fabulous Mother
I keep hearing from mothers this week about how stressed they are and what terrible mothers they think they are. What? Oh pah. I’m here to tell you to stop it. You rock. You’re a fabulous mother. How do I know this? Well, first off because you’re beating yourself up and only people who care…
The Little Things
The kids made me up lists of why they love me for Mother’s Day (I’m a sucker for gratuitous flattery!) and they really made my day. They were also a good reminder of what matters to my kiddos. Sample entries of Anna’s: You keep your promises, you make us smoothies, you take us camping, you…
Rock Cuties
I just stumbled onto these pictures that Victoria took last summer when she was staying with Magical Mama Tiffany and her family. How’s this for cheap, easy and delightful fun? 🙂 She and her friend Judith, who was visiting from Texas, made all of these little folks… Now if it would only stop raining long…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! Ready for some ways to make some magic this week? Here ya go…… 1. Teach the kids to do the hand jive or the macarena and then do it together to all kinds of music (You-Tube can help if you’re rusty!). 2. Let the kids set up the camera on self timer and…
To My Child, On Mother’s Day
I wrote this poem years ago and posted it on the Magical Childhood site, and thought it was fitting to post again today… To My Child, On Mother’s Day I loved you when you were a dream, a plan of who I wanted to be as your mother. I loved you when you were a…
All for One and One for All
Looking for ways to help your kids not just get along but support each other? I thought the ideas in this article were really good!
Play Trees!
I have heard of training apple trees against walls to make beautiful patterns but I had never heard of this sort of tree manipulation until now. Check out this plan for a living playground made from living trees! Apparently it’s fairly common to tie young trees into knots and such to make interesting shapes years…
Real Life
In the interest of balancing out all the perfect sounding mamas and houses out there, here’s another installment of small confessions just for you. 🙂 Directly below this sign in the upstairs hallway is a doorknob-sized hole in the wall where a child opened the bathroom door a bit too enthusiastically. I brought four pieces…
Want to Help? Get a Haircut!
I’m in love with this simple way to help with the oil spill clean up. It turns out that hair, fur, wool and nylons are some of the best materials for filtering oil out of water, and a non-profit company has been using donated boxes of the stuff to help clean up oil spills for…